Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This short article by Luis Suárez, the special correspondent sent to Brussels by the newspaper Novedades, draws attention to the characteristics of the Mexican Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958 in terms of size, cost, and content. [...]

The journalist Luis Suárez complains about the selection of paintings made by the “International committee of experts designated by the general commissioners of the Pavilions of certain number of countries with some importance in modern art,” [...]

José Chávez Morado thought Mexican painting was in a crisis brought on by abstract art, which was becoming a fad though it was not brand-new to Mexico. It had once interested Diego Rivera when he was exploring geometrical ideas in search of formal [...]

Rufino Tamayo expressed his ideas on the need to protect freedom of expression in the creative process. He explained that he did not belong to any group; on a personal level, however, he expressed his support for one of the “inalienable rights of [...]