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Latin Art NYC

Latin art in NYC is at museums, galleries, art fairs, auctions and public art. Being a New Yorker is an art form unto itself.

Natali Barbee "Flores de Femicidio" (the artist)
Natali Barbee “Flores de Femicidio” (the artist)

Latin Art NYC Openings

Claudia Coca: Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion opens at Ethan Cohen Gallery in Chelsea with a reception on Thu, Sep 16 from 5-7pm, and runs to Oct 11. ecfa.com 🇵🇪

Natalia Bravo-Barbee: Flores de Femicidio opens at the York College gallery in Jamaica, Queens Thu, Sep 16 and runs to Nov 19. cuny.edu 🇦🇷

Tatiana Trouvé: From March to May opens at Gagosian Madison Ave in the Upper East Side on Sat, Sep 18 and ends Oct 30. gagosian.com 🇮🇹

Mariano Ferrante: Monocromo opens at Art Projects International in Tribeca on Tue, Sep 21 and closes Nov 20. 🇦🇷

Lucio Pozzi: Time and Again 1974 / 2018 / 2021 opens at Hal Bromm Gallery in the Financial District with a reception on Tue, Sep 21 from 6-8pm and closes Jan 25, 2022. 🇮🇹

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Latin Art On View

Cézanne Drawing at MoMA in Midtown ends Sat, Sep 25. $25 🇫🇷

Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21 at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem ends Sep 26. 🇦🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇫🇷🇭🇹🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸

Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography 1946-1964 at MoMA in Midtown ends Sun, Sep 26. $25 🇧🇷

The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570 at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park ends Oct 11. $25. 🇮🇹

From Surface to Space: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires is at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art in the Upper East Side through Oct 30. islaa.org 🇦🇷

Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts on the roof garden at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park ends Oct 31. $25. 🇻🇪

Raquel Rabinovich: Portals is at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary in the Upper East Side to Nov 5, Mon-Fri, 12-5pm. hutchinsonmodern.com 🇦🇷

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Promo, an exhibition of the artist’s collaboration with the Indigenous Pomo community in northern California, at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park ends Nov 28. metmuseum.org 🇺🇸

Artist’s Choice: Yto Barrada – A Raft at MoMA in Midtown ends Jan 9, 2022 🇫🇷🇲🇦

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park until Jan 17, 2022. 🇫🇷🇭🇹🇮🇳🇲🇽🇪🇸

Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith is at The Met Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park until January 30, 2022. 🇪🇸

Opening Soon

Greater New York 2021 is at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens Oct 7, 2021 – Apr 18, 2022.

Surrealism Beyond Borders is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park Oct 11, 2021 – Jan 30, 2022. 🇫🇷

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park from Nov 5, 2021. 🇺🇸

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts is at The Met Fifth Avenue in Central Park from Dec 10, 2021 – March 6, 2022. 🇫🇷

Ongoing

  • Gaudalupe Maravilla’s “Planeta Abuelx” is outdoors at Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens through Sep 6. FREE 🇸🇻
  • Dawoud Bey: An American Project is at The Whitney in Meatpacking through Oct 3 whitney.org 🇺🇸
  • Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself is at The Whitney in Meatpacking through Oct 4. 🇺🇸

Art Museums in NYC

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Art Fairs in NYC

There are art fairs all year long, but they cluster around Armory Week in March and Frieze Week in May. Art Basel Miami isn’t in New York City, but the entire New York art world heads south in early December. That’s the rhythm of art in New York City.

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Art Galleries in NYC

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Art Auction Houses in NYC

There are art auctions all year long, but they cluster in May and November. Auction exhibitions are museum quality and free. You can attend most auctions. Only a few require an invitation.

Sotheby’s folded their Latin American Art auctions into their general auctions. This has increased prices for Latin American artists.

One of the things we like about Christie’s Latin American art auction is the colonial art done in European styles by American, often Indigenous artists.

Like New York real estate, art prices seem to go nowhere, but up.

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Art Archive

Point of View Can be Blinding

Like most human culture, art begins as an expression of faith to soften the journey through life and death. From there it grows into a hundred flowers.

If you look at 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 trash is irrelevant. In fact art made from trash is probably more real. Diamonds are a sucker’s artifice.

There is great art everywhere. There is art on New York City streets too. In a way, being a New Yorker is an art form in and of itself.

The Most Famous Latin Art in New York City That You Will Never See

"Man, Controller of the Universe" by Diego Rivera, 1933. Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Wikimedia)
“Man, Controller of the Universe” by Diego Rivera, 1933. Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Wikimedia)

In 1933 Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted “Man at the Crossroads” (1933) over the atrium inside 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center.

The mural contrasts capitalism and socialism. Nelson Rockefeller was upset about the portrait of Lenin, so he had it torn down. It’s the most famous painting in New York City that you will never see.

Rivera recreated the masterwork as “Man, Controller of the Universe” (1934), inside Palacio de Bellas Arts in Mexico City.

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