Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’
- Eight not-to-be-missed shows offer scores of creators and local art traditions from New York, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Mexico and South America.
You don’t need to know anything about art to be stopped in your tracks by what’s on the walls of El Museo del Barrio these days: | the fantastic ballpoint pen drawings by Consuelo (Chelo) González Amézcua (1903-1975), a Mexican immigrant to Texas; the stupefyingly intricate collages of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, who was born in Havana and died in Philadelphia, where in 1983 his life’s work was found in a garage sale; and the pictographic paintings of Puerto Rican-born Eloy Blanco (1933-1984), who came to New York City to study art and learned from fellow Latinos about the Indigenous Taino culture of his homeland — a culture he ended up making the wellspring of his work. |
Ampliando el alcance del “arte latinoamericano”
One of the advantages of living in New York City is the diversity of art on display at different venues in Manhattan. I am looking forward to a visit to at least one of them. |
Una de las ventajas de vivir en la ciudad de Nueva York es la diversidad de arte que se exhibe en diferentes lugares de Manhattan. Espero poder visitar al menos a uno de ellos. |
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