Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This review focuses on the harsh critiques leveled against the Uruguayan government and its arts institutions, which are considered to have failed in their attempts to create events that achieved the stated objectives. Some of those objectives are [...]

This informational brochure was written by Ángel Kalenberg, the director of the IGE (Instituto General Electric) in Montevideo, founded in 1963. The brochure describes the various objectives and activities of the institute that had been carried out [...]

The deterioration of the site occupied by the Taller Libre de Arte (TLA) [(in Caracas)] was evident in this [March 4, 1967] news item. The news piece reported on an order to repair the sanitary facilities and electrical system of the workshop and the [...]

This document presents a debate promoted by the journal Módulo about the crisis in the cultural institutions of Rio de Janeiro. It took place just one decade after this city was replaced as the capital of Brazil. First, the debate addresses both the [...]

Yo Digo is the title of the mimeographed publication by artist Félix Ángel that circulated free of charge in Medellín, the capital of the Department of Antioquia, from September 5, 1975 to January 7, 1979. In issue 25, the author defends himself [...]

Colombian artist and art critic Beatriz González Aranda provides a thorough review of what she considers the key events necessary to understanding the art scene in 1987. In the text’s seven sections, González Aranda voices her opinion of the [...]

In her essay, María Angélica Melendi discusses how Latin America fits into artistic and cultural grand narratives (grand-récits). In her opinion, the art produced in Latin America seeks to insert itself into these narratives in two different ways [...]

The co-editor of ABRAZO, Víctor A. Sorell writes that ethnic artists must no longer believe that the mainstream art world neglects them merely due to elitism (ignorance of ethnic artists contributes to this neglect as well). ABRAZO urges the art [...]

This flyer denounces the situation of the Escuela de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina), which was then closed by military orders with no possibility of re-opening. It likewise repudiates the takeover of this institution, and [...]

This flyer explains the trajectory of the Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes [Society for the Fostering of Fine Arts], especially with regard to the lawsuit it filed against the City Hall of Buenos Aires in 1962. The text points out that a 1937 law [...]