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Putting Uruguay on the art map: sculptor Pablo Atchugarry is building a world-class museum in his home country
Billed as Uruguay's most comprehensive hub for international contemporary art, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry will open in Punta del Este next January
NewsNew York
Artist designs Dias de los Muertos altar in Brooklyn for those who died during the pandemic
New Yorkers are invited to leave a remembrance of loved ones at Scherezade Garcia’s ofrenda at Green-Wood Cemetery
AnalysisArt market
South American galleries face steep challenges as the region's biggest fairs shutter due to the spread of coronavirus
In economically shaky countries like Argentina, annual fairs like the now-cancelled ArteBA are a financial lifeline. Now galleries must "rethink how to produce"
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.
ArchiveNew Museums
Latin American art collector Gary Nader plans Miami museum
The naming rights for the institution are still up for grabs
ArchiveChristie's
Christie’s pulls works from Latin American auction after ‘forgery’ concerns
Ten items from one collection withdrawn from New York auctions
ArchiveColonial art
The Louvre aims to acquire art of the Mexican school in bid to widen its geographical remit
Paris museum is on a mission to collect Latin American art—and a show of colonial-era paintings is the overture
ArchiveArt fairs
Fifth edition of the Pinta Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show in New York proves a success
Several leading US museums took the opportunity to add to their collections of Latin American art
ArchiveArt fairs
Fair report: Local galleries fare well at Zona Maco, Mexico City
International collectors and curators were out in force for the eighth edition of the Latin American art fair
ArchiveTate Modern
New acquisitions by Tate Modern show commitment to diversifying collection
Art from across the globe has recently found a home in Bankside
ArchiveArt fairs
Low prices promoted contemporary art at Arte Americas
Latin American collectors moved outside traditional comfort zones
ArchiveCuba
Havana Biennial opens as relations with US thaw
Local artists show alongside established international names, as collectors and exhibitors circumvent trade restrictions
ArchiveArt fairs
Bâlelatina: Latin American art fair based in Basel to expand
The fair's new director announces intention to further represent the diversity of Latin American creatives
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art
The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art
ArchiveArt market
Crossover collectors fuelled record prices
Historical works were popular
ArchiveMuseums
Latin American curator for MoMA
Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art
ArchivePuerto Rico
Inspired by collectors in Florida, a Cuban-born couple have opened a private museum
Bringing a little Miami to San Juan
ArchiveTate
Tate appoints associate curator of Latin American art
Cuauhtémoc Medina has nabbed the position, intended to broaden the Tate's sights beyond Europe and North America
ArchiveCollectors
A survey of Ten Latin American collectors
Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country
ArchiveChristie's
Christie’s sale loses a probable half million over withdrawn paintings found to be fakes
Experts proved just before last year’s auction in New York that at least six paintings were recent forgeries
ArchiveExhibitions
Major Latin American art exhibition arrives in New York this month
This will be the largest show of modern Latin American art to be presented in the United States
ArchiveExhibitions
The art of Forties America at the MoMA
Exploring the influence of immigrants and how the world moved on from the war
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