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Rodriguez: Detroit’s Músico-Político Comes Home
In many ways Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary Searching For Sugarman, embodies the very thing that makes Detroit so great: in spite of its many obstacles and hardships– it endures. The bona fide legend and self-described músico-político (political musician) bears witness to this narrative as a lifelong resident, as ...
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Las Maestras: Amelia Peláez
“I am not interested in copying the object….What matters is the relation of the motif with oneself, with one’s personality, and the power the artist has to organize his [her] emotions…. These are the words of Amelia Peláez y del Casal (1897-1968), in 1936. As a Cuban Modernist Painter, Ceramist, and Muralist her style has ...
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Las Maestras: Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral (1886 – 1973) is a prominent Brazilian painter and leader in Latin American Art. Born on a ranch in a small town near São Paulo, Brazil, Tarsila (as she is known) was fourteen when her parents moved to Europe. While in Europe, she spent time taking art classes and visiting museums. She ...
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Las Maestras: Anita Malfatti
“If an artist is willing to float with the stream, it will carry [her/] him along quite nicely; if [s]he wants to strike out on a new course, to express the ideas that are [her/] his own and no other [wo]man’s [s]he must expect that it will take a certain time for the public ...
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Las Maestras del Arte Latinoamericano
In the past decade, there has been a growing interest in Latin American Visual Culture. This growth is made clear by things such as a surge in Latin American Art programs, record auction sales in the secondary art market, the increase of museum and gallery representation, and the broad success of Latin American TV, film ...
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Global Strokes and Local Stripes: Latino Street Art in London
Stinkfish, 2011 We begin near Brick Lane. Striding down the streets of London’s East End, it’s easy to be blinkered by the red-brick walls and the blur of heavy traffic. On a daily trajectory from A to B, the city seems mundane; a space flattened by dull footsteps and timely routine. But beneath eye-level lie ...
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Marshall Marcus on El Sistema: An open network model?
I meet with Marshall Marcus in the Central Bar of the Royal Festival Hall during Sounds Venezuela 2012. Despite the torrential weather, hundreds of people buzz around the Southbank Centre as it prepares once again to welcome the musicians of El Sistema, Venezuela’s now world-famous social music program. Marcus, former Head of Music and the ...
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This Summer at the Museo de Arte de Ponce
Exhibitions by two prominent Latin American artists are on view at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, in Puerto Rico, this summer. The premieres coincide with the third San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, “El Panal (The Hive)” (28 April – August 2012), at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in Old ...
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Discovering Latin American Art Through The Power Of Google
Google uses its technological genius to share artwork from a range of collections with users around the world. It can be said, perhaps, that this new technology could do for the art object what the mechanization of movable type did for literature. Amongst its many contributions to modernity, it gave knowledge to the masses. It ...