Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The article “El fracaso de la Casa de Arte” argues the reasons why the institution was forced to close its doors shortly after it was founded. By the end of the 1920s, Uruguayan artists had established close ties with the government promoting [...]

Journalist Juan Luis Márquez reports that fellow Puerto Ricans José Antonio Torres Martinó, Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño, Julio Rosado del Valle, and Félix Rodríguez Báez have organized the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño (CAP) in order to [...]

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 [...]

In this text, Colombian-American critic and curator Michèle Faguet describes the origin of the independent art venue La Rebeca, which she founded and directed. She also discusses La Rebeca’s later development in Bogotá from 2002 until 2005, [...]