Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

David Alfaro Siqueiros sent a letter to the Minister of Public Education, José Manuel Puig Cassauranc, when he was dismissed from his ministry job as professor of drawing and manual works, for which he was paid three pesos a day. His dismissal was [...]

The students of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Carlos accuse the “old men” who meet in the Círculo de Escultores—Ignacio Asúnsolo, Juan Olaguíbel, Federico Canessi, José María Fernández Urbina, Luis Ortiz Monasterio, Modesto [...]

In his review dated November 1918, the poet, critic and Mexican diplomat José Juan Tablada reports on three Mexican artists who have become part of the New York avant-garde: Marius de Zayas, Juan Olaguíbel and José de Torres y de Palomar. Tablada [...]

Carlos Mérida notes that, though much has been written about Mexican folk art, its full potential is largely overlooked, since it is in fact the essential expression of a nation built on the bedrock of its own culture. In this painter’s opinion, [...]