New York Latin Art is in museums, galleries, art fairs, parks and on the street.
Thursday is NYC’s main art gallery opening night. It’s fun to walk around the Chelsea art district between 6-8pm. The art is great and so is the people watching. It’s a great date.
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The Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI
Opens Friday, March 17, 2023
CCCADI
East Harlem, Manhattan
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The New York Now: Home Photography Exhibition at MCNY Shows How New Yorkers Make New York City Home
Ongoing
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
“El Barrio” East Harlem
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Things To Do in NYC This Weekend March 15-21, 2023
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New York Latin Art News
January 2023
“Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain” was the landmark exhibition of Black British art coproduced by the CCCADI, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Studio Museum in Harlem in 1997. For it’s 25th anniversary, the CCCADI has exhibition curator Dr. Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd speak with exhibition artist Rita Keegan and culture author Dr. Janice Cheddie, about the impact of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s. This virtual program is live on Thursday, January 19, 2023 from 7-8:30pm. FREE! 🇺🇸🇵🇷🇬🇧
You may also like the Black Arts Movement Examined series at Harlem Stage.
The Winter Show 2023, one of America’s leading antiques fairs, is a benefit for East Side House, a community services organization in Mott Haven, The Bronx. The antiques fair is at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; for ten days, from Friday-Sunday, January 20-29, 2023. $30. 🇦🇷🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇪🇸
For the Master Drawings New York 2023 art fair, 25 art galleries show old masters and new masters from their collections and from visiting international dealers; in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from Friday, January 20-28, 2023. The exhibition continues online through February 28, 2023. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇻🇪 | 🇫🇷🇮🇹
[LUNAR NEW YEAR]
The Lunar New Year 2023 Photo Exhibition This is Home, features work about New York City by some great New York photographers of Asian descent: Janice Chung (Korean), Cindy Trinh (Vietnamese), and An Rong Xu (Taiwanese). The exhibition opens with a reception at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 from 12-2pm. It ends February 26. FREE! 🇰🇷🇹🇼🇻🇳
Flag Series: Raul Mourão is a public art installation of Mourão’s “The New Brazilian Flag #3, (2018); at Americas Society on 68th St in the Upper East Side; from January 24 – May 30, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
Bispo do Rosário: All Existing Materials on Earth, the first U.S. solo exhibition of the genius outsider artist; is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side; from Wednesday, January 25 – May 20, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
Deep Marajó: Contemporary Marajoara Ceramics, an art exhibition of contemporary ceramics from the Marajó archipelago at the mouth of the Amazon River; is at Americas Society in the Upper East Side; from Wednesday, January 25 – May 20, 2023. FREE! 🇧🇷
April 2023
Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, an art exhibition about the Afro-Spanish painter (c. 1606-1670) who worked in the studio of Diego Velázquez, the lead artist in the court of King Philip IV at the height of the Spanish Golden Age, is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, April 3 – July 16, 2023. metmuseum.org 🇪🇸
May 2023
May brings a cluster of art auctions.
The Frieze New York contemporary art fair is at The Shed in Hudson Yards, May 17-21, 2023.
September 2023
The Armory Show contemporary art fair, is at Javits Center in Hudson Yards, September 8-10, 2023.
November 2023
November brings a cluster of art auctions.
The National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair was at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx, on Saturday, November 19, 2022. 🇵🇷
December 2023
The 21st Art Basel Miami Beach contemporary art fair, is in Miami, Florida, December 7-9, 2023. artbasel.com
New York Latin Art Museums
The Studio Museum in Harlem collects art of the African Diaspora. studiomuseum.org
Manhattan Art Museums
- International Center of Photography Museum
- Museum of Jewish Heritage ✡️
- New York Museum of Contemporary Art
- Noguchi Museum is a sculpture museum. noguchi.org 🇯🇵
- SculptureCenter in Long Island City is a contemporary art museum. sculpture-center.org
- Studio Museum 🇺🇸
Bronx Art Museums
Brooklyn Art Museums
Queens Art Museums
New York Latin Art Galleries
- Acquavella brought European Modern Art to America.
- Calderón
- Gagosian
- Henrique Faria Gallery
- Hunter East Harlem Gallery
- Instituto de Visión 🇨🇴
- Leon Tovar Gallery 🇨🇴
- Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art 🇲🇽
- Mendes Wood DM 🇧🇷
- Mexican Cultural Institute 🇲🇽
- Praxis 🇦🇷
- Revolver Galería 🇵🇪
- Staley-Wise Gallery is a fashion photography dealer.
- Taller Boricua 🇵🇷
New York Art Fairs
New York Art Auctions
The May and November art auctions are pillars of New York’s art world.
About New York Latin Art
Like most human culture, art begins as an expression of faith to ease the journey through life and death. From there it grows into a hundred flowers. There is great art everywhere. In a way, being a New Yorker is an art form in and of itself.
If you look at American art (especially Latin American Art) the same way you look at European art, your own bias will blind you. They are different world views. The art world is beginning to recognize that one isn’t better than the other. European art is more European, American art is more American. Whether art is made from diamonds or garbage is irrelevant. In fact art made from garbage is probably more real. Diamonds are a sucker’s artifice.
New York art fairs and important gallery exhibitions cluster around Frieze Week in May and Armory Week in September. The May and November art auctions are more pillars of New York’s art world. After the November auctions, New York’s art world goes south to Art Basel Miami, America’s most important contemporary art fair.
In February of 2020, the Whitney Museum of American Art recast art history by stating that the biggest influence on the development of American art was not the European schools, it was the Mexican Muralists. Let that sink in. 🇲🇽
The cover image is the most famous Latin art in New York City that you’ll never see. It’s Diego Rivera’s “Man, Controller of the Universe” (1934), in the Palacio de Bellas Arts in Mexico City. That is Rivera’s recreation of his own “Man at the Crossroads” from 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center, which Nelson Rockefeller destroyed in 1933 because it includes a portrait of Lenin.