Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is the flier that was handed out to members of the public at the opening of the XXIII Salón Nacional de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ Salon] on November 3, 1972. The other side announces Colombiana, the work presented by [...]

“Lugar: A Project for Contemporary Creation / Un proyecto de creación contemporánea” is the handwritten (in Spanish) proposal that was used to create Lugar a dudas [Room for Doubt], an independent space (in the city of Cali) that promotes and [...]

This is the program for the Primer Festival de Arte de Vanguardia [First Festival of Avant-Garde Art] presented at the Galería de Arte La Nacional in the city of Cali, from June 16 through July 1, 1965 by artists who were members of the nadaísta [ [...]

This document sets forth the contents of the program, the activity schedule and the different venues of the 1st Encuentro Iberoamericano de Críticos de Arte y Artistas Plásticos, held in Caracas June 18 – 27, 1978. It gives the names of all the [...]

The twenty-one-page program presents Fernando Gamboa’s initial ideas on how to represent Mexico at the 1958 Belgium world exhibition, the same that centered on the theme of a “second Industrial Revolution”: one of nuclear energy. The curator [...]

Schedule of activities and exhibitions for the Semana de arte avanzado [Advanced Art Week] in Argentina. The following entries stand out in the program: Experiencias visuales 1967 [the 1967 Visual Practices], the shows of Ernesto Deira (1928-86) and [...]

This resolution of the Task Force on Hispanic American Arts, adopted on March 16, 1978, provided recommendations to the National Endowment for the Arts to improve and enhance access by Hispanic-American artists to its programs and granting processes [...]