Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This document is a proposal for The Puerto Rican Equation, an exhibition to commemorate the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States, and which would feature Puerto Rican artists who were born and lived in either Puerto Rico or the United [...]

In this essay, María de Mater O'Neill, Marimar Benítez, Julieta González, and Enrique Renta, who are all involved in art, join together to discuss their ideas about Conceptual art. O’Neill explains the development of Conceptual art, and suggests [...]

“The Artists Respond: Art, Culture, Politics” is a transcript of artists’ responses to questions posed by Juan Sánchez, curator of the exhibition The Puerto Rican Equation: Puerto Rican Artists Ponder 100 Years Since the 1898 Invasion. Among [...]

According to the Spanish art critic Manuel Pérez Lizano, who lives in Puerto Rico, there are two movements in contemporary Puerto Rican sculpture: a Neo-Constructivist trend and an Informalist trend. He says that Manuel de J. Feliciano, Melquiades [...]

Spanish critic Manuel Pérez Lizano asserts that sculpture has not developed as fully as painting in Puerto Rico for a number of reasons: the high price of works in that medium (there are few exhibitions of foreign sculptors in Puerto Rico due to [...]