Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article the abstract painter and sculptor Manuel Felguérez reviews the Primer Salón Nacional de Pintura[First National Salon of Painting] that included a great number of artists from all the aesthetic trends. The Zacatecan artist notes the [...]

This brief article reports the results of the contest announced in late March by the supplement, México en la culturaFirst prize was awarded to Jorge Alberto Manrique, who wrote an analysis of a painting by Juan Soriano, La madre. Second prize went [...]

This short article announces a competition to choose “the best art critic.” Paul Westheim’s idea began with the question: “Where in Mexico are the young art critics who are prepared to defend the values represented by the efforts of their own [...]

This is the Mexican critic Antonio Luna Arroyo’s biographical sketch of the German sculptor Herbert Hofmann-Isenbourg. It spans the latter’s education in philosophy and aesthetics in Berlin, his travels—including three trips around the world— [...]

The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes [INBA, National Institute of Fine Arts] invited all painters, regardless of their trend, to take part in the first Salón Anual de Pintura [Annual Painting Salon]. The selection of works and the awarding of [...]