Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The writer Mario Benedetti, representing the Montevideo weekly Marcha, reviews the seventh edition of the Exposición de La Habana (1968), an event that was organized by the Casa de las Américas, a Cuban institution founded in 1959. The Uruguayan [...]

Mariano Rodriguez (Havana, Cuba 1912–1990), the deputy director of the Casa de las Américas, asks Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar to consider being the Puerto Rican coordinator of a group affiliated with either the Casa de las Américas in [...]

Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar thanks Mariano Rodriguez (1912–1990), vice director of the Casa de las Américas, for inviting him to serve as the coordinator for an adjunct group of that organization in Puerto Rico. However, Homar turns down the [...]

In this long letter to his Colombian colleague Pedro Alcántara, Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar discusses a number of topics including the technical procedure by which to create a coat with a patina that looks like bronze on a sculpture made from [...]

North American historian Shifra M. Goldman offers a brief account of the Segunda Bienal de La Habana [Second Havana Biennial] held in November 1986. The event included more than 2,400 works by 690 artists from 51 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin [...]