Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In “El nuevo giro de la Historia del Arte en los Estados Unidos,” [The New Turn of Art History in the United States], Argentine historian and critic Damián Bayón criticizes an article by journalist Grace Glueck published in the New York Times [...]

Written by Marta Traba and published in the magazine Arte en Colombia, “El VII Salón Atenas” is perhaps the harshest criticism of the Colombian salons held in November. Traba argues that despite belief to the contrary, the Salon Atenas has not [...]

In 1988, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding with a series of exhibitions of works in its permanent collection. Uruguayan artist and critic Luis Camnitzer voices his disappointment with the museum’ [...]

In “La crítica de arte en el Salón de 1899: una aproximación a los procesos de configuración del campo artístico en Colombia,”historian and museologist William Alfonso López Rosas analyzes the criticism published on the Sección de Bellas [...]

In the article “Marta Traba: Décadas vulnerables” [Marta Traba: Vulnerable Decades], Aracy Amaral provides a sketch of the intellectual persona of art critic Marta Traba on the occasion of her tragic death in a plane crash in 1983. Amaral [...]

The article “Propuesta para una doble lectura” is a statement of principle as well as a thesis that Marta Traba formulated on the occasion of an exhibition of Modern Colombian art in Paris. In this text, Traba provides a periodization of [...]