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.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy
February 26, 2021 🇫🇷🎨📚 Photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler on their newest art book “Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire: Frédéric Zaavy”
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The Armory Show Moves to September 2021
JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, NYC 🎨🎪 Thursday-Sunday, September 9-12, 2021
PRIDA’s Virtual National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo Is Extended All Year Long
comitenoviembrevirtualfair.org | Through November 2021 🇵🇷
Start Master Drawings New York 2021 Online and End in a Gallery
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The Brooklyn Museum is Reopening
Saturday, September 12
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
The Morgan Library & Museum is Open
Saturday, September 5, 2020
MURRAY HILL, NYC
The Whitney Museum of American Art is Open
Thursday, September 3, 2020
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art is Open
Thursday, August 27, 2020
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN
Crown of the Andes Contains the Atahualpa Emerald
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
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The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021
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WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Meatpacking District, NYC
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The Argentine Titanosaur
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Upper West Side, NYC
Art Museums in NYC
The Met Cloisters is Reopening
Saturday, September 12, 2020
FORT TRYON PARK, NYC
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El Museo del Barrio is Open
Saturday, September 12, 2020
EL BARRIO EAST HARLEM, NYC
The Brooklyn Museum is Reopening
Saturday, September 12
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
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.
The Armory Show Moves to September 2021
JAVITS CENTER, Hudson Yards, NYC 🎨🎪 Thursday-Sunday, September 9-12, 2021
Independent New York 2021
CIPRIANI SOUTH STREET Financial District 🎨🎪 ARMORY WEEK Thursday-Sunday, September 9-12, 2021
PRIDA’s Virtual National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo Is Extended All Year Long
comitenoviembrevirtualfair.org | Through November 2021 🇵🇷
Art Galleries in NYC
Edwynn Houk Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue #407
at 58th St
Midtown East, Manhattan
Monday – Friday
Lehmann Maupin
Tuesday – Saturday
CHELSEA, NYC
Contemporary art gallery
Marlborough Gallery
Closed Sundays
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ This New York/London gallery represents major international artists
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.
Christie’s
ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NYC
Phillips
Daily
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
A contemporary art auction house
Sotheby’s
Daily
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
One of the world’s leading art auction houses
Like New York real estate, art prices seem to go nowhere, but up.
More Latin Art
Start Master Drawings New York 2021 Online and End in a Gallery
masterdrawingsnewyork.com & Upper East Side art galleries | Friday, January 22-30, 2021 🇲🇽 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇪🇸
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Continue Reading Start Master Drawings New York 2021 Online and End in a Gallery
The Brooklyn Museum is Reopening
Saturday, September 12
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
The Morgan Library & Museum is Open
Saturday, September 5, 2020
MURRAY HILL, NYC
The Whitney Museum of American Art is Open
Thursday, September 3, 2020
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art is Open
Thursday, August 27, 2020
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN
Crown of the Andes Contains the Atahualpa Emerald
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
Continue Reading Crown of the Andes Contains the Atahualpa Emerald
The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021
🇲🇽 🇺🇸
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Meatpacking District, NYC
Continue Reading The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
The Argentine Titanosaur
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Upper West Side, NYC
The Most Famous Latin Art in New York City That You Will Never See
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.