Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

 María Izquierdo addresses two topics in this short article. She analyzes the characteristics of the five most important galleries in Mexico City: the one at the University, Galería Espiral, Galería de Arte y Decoración, Galería de Arte María [...]

On the fifteenth anniversary of the Galería de Arte Mexicano [GAM, Mexican Art Gallery], Margarita de Ponce reviews its activities and discusses what she considers to be its greatest contributions toward the distribution and promotion of Mexican art [...]

The young 24-year-old artist, Guillermo Meza, exhibits his imaginative pictorial artwork at the Galería de Arte Mexicano (GAM), and the critic and art historian Justino Fernández reviews it. The critic admires the artist, whom he finds “an [...]

In this essay, written in 1988, Manuel Felguérez relates the beginnings of what is known as the Ruptura movement in the 1950s. Felguérez points out that the arrival of refugees from the Spanish Civil War and other European nations in the previous [...]

The Argentine critic Raquel Tibol interviews the director of the Galería de Arte Mexicano [GAM, Gallery of Mexican Art] Inés Amor, and they discuss the early days of the gallery, which opened twenty-one years earlier. The interview highlights the [...]

The reviewer discusses the efforts of the Galería de Arte Mexicano (GAM) to promote the work of promising young talent like Jesús Guerrero Galván as well as paintings by famous artists such as Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. The writer insists that [...]