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Latin Art NYC

New York City is the world capital of Latin art. It’s a city of museums, galleries, art fairs, art auctions and public art. 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. The 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.

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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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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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