NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Cuzco paintings meet colonial Cuban culture in Allapattah
Founders of museum of Latin American art believe they may also have a work by Raphael
NewsFrieze New York 2019
Is it time to drop the ‘Latin American’ artist label?
Galleries are starting to move away from the historic term as new awareness builds
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Dallas Museum of Art boosts Latin American focus with new curator and acquisitions
The museum aims to show the diversity of the region, where art and cultures have mixed for centuries
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Met receives donation of ten ‘exceptional’ colonial Latin American works out of the blue
The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse
ReviewBooks
How the Mexican Stridentist movement tried to build a national identity following the Civil War
Art and social action after the Mexican Revolution
NewsLatin American art
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros plans to take her Latin American art collection worldwide
Works from the 3,000-strong collection have already travelled to Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil and in 2019, Fontanals-Cisneros plans to “cross even more uncharted waters”
PreviewPolitics
Latin American galleries reassess sales strategies for Miami Art Week after border crackdown
Trump's decision to station 15,000 troops at the country's southwest border has further soured political relations between the US and its South American neighbours
PreviewArt market
Latin American art gets a boost on the auction block
Including the region’s art in broader sales has been a positive move for some artists' sales
PreviewArt market
Could sales slow at Artbo as political conservatism deepens in Colombia?
The divisive election of conservative president Iván Duque in August and resulting political tension may stymie sales at Bogotá's Artbo
AnalysisTEFAF Maastricht 2018
Latin America's colonial art captivates a new generation
Two touring exhibitions are highlighting the explosion of global interest in viceregal period
NewsAcquisitions
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros gives 200 works of Latin American contemporary art to six museums
The 90 works given to MoMA take the museum “in a new direction”, says director Glenn Lowry
NewsConservation & Preservation
Rediscovered Mexican Old Master picture gets fresh look for Met show
A surprise find in the Bronx is now part of an exhibition on Baroque painter Cristóbal de Villalpando
ReviewBooks
Abstraction in reverse: how Latin American Modernists changed how we see
The art historian Alexander Alberro explains how action and participation drove new forms of art
NewsLatin American art
Foundation opens new space in Buenos Aires
The main aim of Fundación Arte is to promote cultural dialogue with Argentinian and Latin American artists
NewsArt market
Can foreign collectors and museums sustain Brazil’s art market?
The country is in the doldrums, but its artists have never before enjoyed such critical acclaim abroad
NewsExhibitions
Miami reconnects with Cuba
As relations improve across the Florida Straits, a string of exhibitions makes the most of the cultural ties between Miami and Havana.
CommentLatin American art
Art Basel in Miami Beach has become Latin American art’s El Dorado
Just as the fair has transformed the city’s image and economy, it has also had a big influence on the neighbouring region's flourishing art trade
Christian Viveros-Fauné