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. |