Exhibition: Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 New York, Museum of Modern Art March 29, 2015–July 19, 2015 Brings together models, drawings and archival photographs as well as new photography of key buildings, not only those by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and Mexican Luis Barragán but also less well known structures by Cuban architects, suchContinue reading “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York”
Category Archives: Latin America
CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800. Deadline: 8 May 2015
CAA 2016 session Washington, DC 3-6 February 2016 CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800 Sponsored by ASHAHS. Chair: Professor Ilenia Colón Mendoza: ilenia.colonmendoza@ucf.edu
CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins
CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins Deadline: 13 May 2015 In recent years, meta-critical studies such as Ideologies of Hispanism (2005), Spain Beyond Spain (2005), Reading Iberia (2007), Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI (2011) and Iberian Modalities (2013) have sought to uncover the ideological discourses underlying Hispanic StudiesContinue reading “CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins”
CFP: Tragic(al) Realism: Contemporary afterlives of Magical (sur)Realism
CFP: Tragic(al) Realism: Contemporary afterlives of Magical (sur)Realism College Art Association (CAA) 104th Annual Conference Washington, D.C. 3-6 February 2016 Deadline: 8 May 2015 Short call: This session investigates how the spectres of surrealism and Magical Realism haunt the production, circulation, and interpretation of contemporary art and visual culture from Latin America. Almost twenty yearsContinue reading “CFP: Tragic(al) Realism: Contemporary afterlives of Magical (sur)Realism”
CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano (Lisbon, 26-27 Nov 2015)
CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano Lisbon, Portugal, November 26 – 27, 2015 Deadline: Apr 30, 2015 El Instituto de História da Arte de la Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa organiza el I Simpósio de Historia del Arte – El Retabulo en el espacio Iberoamericano: Forma, función e iconografía, queContinue reading “CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano (Lisbon, 26-27 Nov 2015)”
Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America, Denver
Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America. Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, 7 December 2014 – 27 February 2016. During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. Displaying their wealth and status, people wereContinue reading “Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America, Denver”
Andean Art in the Spanish Empire, Chicago
A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire, New long-term installation, Art Institute of Chicago, till 26 February 2016. The museum’s first presentation of work from the viceregal period. Fourteen paintings and related works on paper introduce visitors to explorers, artists, and patrons who lived in the Spanish-governed Andes during the 17th, 18th,Continue reading “Andean Art in the Spanish Empire, Chicago”
New England / New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850, Denver, January 2015
New England / New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850, Symposium, Frederick + Jan Mayer Centre, Denver Art Museum, 23-24 January 2015. Each year, the Denver Art Museum hosts a two-day symposium on a New World topic, alternating between a Pre-Columbian theme one year and a colonial Spanish theme the next year. The 2014 symposium, whichContinue reading “New England / New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850, Denver, January 2015”
Tamayo Museum on Tour: La Jolla
Treasures of the Tamayo Museum, Mexico City on Tour, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla), 17 May – 31 August 2014. Highlights from one of Mexico’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art, the Tamayo Museum which opened in 1981 to house the collections of Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991), of both his own artContinue reading “Tamayo Museum on Tour: La Jolla”
Sebastiâo Salgado, Brasilia
Sebastiâo Salgado: Genesis, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil, 5 August – 29 September 2014. Another in the Brazilian-born photographer’s series of exhibitions of his black and white images of remote landscapes and their animal and human inhabitants. This exhibition of 216 works was previously shown at the Natural History Museum, London.
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