Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America

By Mari Carmen Ramirez, Hector Olea

"In the twentieth-century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media...

Intersecting Modernities: Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection

By Cecilia Fajardo Hill, Mari Carmen Ramirez

"Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg has assembled a superb private collection of Latin American modern masterworks by towering figures such as Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Joaquín Torres-García. The...

Contingent beauty

By Mari Carmen Ramirez, Maria C. Gaztambide

Home so different so appealing

By Mari Carmen Ramirez, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Chon A. Noriega

Home signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home ha...

Inverted utopias

By Mari Carmen Ramirez

"In the twentieth-century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media...

Helio Oiticica

By Luciano Figueiredo, Mari Carmen Ramirez, Wynne H. Phelan, Helio Oiticia

"One the most creative artists of the twentieth century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) played a key role in the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, and in the overall development of Latin American art and...

Helio Oiticica

By Mari Carmen Ramirez

New territories

By Gabriela Rangel, Adriana Kertzer, Mari Carmen Ramirez, Marcella Echavarria, Nessia Leonzini, Regine Basha, Magdalena Gruneisen, Fabiana Lopes, Adelia Borges, Lowery Stokes Sims, Antonio Sanchez Gomez, Jorge Rivas

Resisting categories

By Melina Kervandjian, Mari Carmen Ramirez, Maria C. Gaztambide, Hector Olea, Tomas Ybarra Frausto

"The terms "Latin American" and "Latino" have been used broadly to describe artists from a number of different countries, races, and cultures. Yet these reductive terms fail to clearly define these...

Modern and contemporary masterworks from Malba Fundacion Costantini

By Mari Carmen Ramirez

"In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned Costantini Collectio...