Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

An article in this newsletter invites readers to a screening of Reading Film from “Knots” by R. D. Laing, directed by David Lamelas, at the CAYC. The film was made with help from the CAYC to exhibit Art Systems during the Bienal de S& [...]

This text announces the Buenos Aires opening of the exhibition of Conceptual art works organized by the artist, activist, and critic Lucy Lippard and Jorge Glusberg. The opening took place on December 4, 1970, at the CAYC premises and the exhibition [...]

José A. Torres Martinó, a Puerto Rican artist, comments that in all countries made up of immigrants, when the immigrants are seen as a threatening social group, they are tagged with fairly uncomplimentary nicknames. However, the writer believes [...]

The curator Ivo Mesquita discusses the concepts and criteria that informed his curatorial process in organizing the Latin American art exhibition Cartographies (Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, 1993). He proposes the concept of “cartography [...]

In this letter, artist Marcos Dimas writes to art critic Lucy R. Lippard and invites her to review his exhibition at El Museo del Barrio. Dimas discusses his participation in an activist artist collective, known as the Art Workers’ Coalition, and [...]

This new pamphlet, titled “La Nueva Moda” [“The New Style”], demonstrates the inherent contradiction between participating in an exhibition and, at the same time, formulating an extreme critique to be produced within that art institution.  [...]

The text announces the Arte conceptual [Conceptual Art] exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicación [Art and Communication Center], December 1970) organized by Lucy Lippard and Jorge Glusberg. There is a description of Conceptual Art, [...]