Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In the Montevidean press, the controversy between the writer Juan Carlos Somma and the art critic Fernando García Esteban developed and was published in installments. It revolved around the governmental and private decisions that were made in [...]

This article by Fernando García Esteban appeared in the weekly journal Marcha and is part of a controversy with the writer Juan Carlos Somma. All in all, the critic’s rant revealed behavior and decisions, both governmental and private, when he was [...]

In the Montevideo-based weekly Marcha, writer Juan Carlos Somma condemns a series of confused decisions the Uruguayan government made about the preservation and restoration of murals by Joaquín Torres García and members of his workshop at the [...]

The article by the art critic and columnist of the weekly journal Marcha, Fernando García Esteban, was written in immediate response to the published complaint made by Juan Carlos Somma regarding the imminent restoration and transfer of the murals [...]

In this essay, North American educator and poet Muna Lee de Muñoz Marín discusses the restoration work and artistic career of Franz Howanietz, a Viennese painter who lived in Puerto Rico. In 1935, Howanietz restored paintings from the Degetau [...]

This is an account of the occasion when Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, a member of the ruling military junta, visited the Galerías Pacífico in Buenos Aires in 1978, to observe the mural restoration project in which Antonio Berni was engaged [...]

Upon the installation of twelve stained glass windows designed by Marc Chagall in the synagogue at the University Medical Center of Jerusalem in February 1962, Ida Rodríguez [Prampolini] reflected on the resurgence of stained glass—for decorative [...]