Latin Art in New York City is in museums, galleries, art fairs, parks, and on the street. Being a New Yorker is an art form in itself. New York has several art districts, but Chelsea is the main one. Thursday is New York’s main art gallery opening night. It’s fun to walk around the Chelsea art district from 6-8pm.
Frieze New York 2024 is NYC’s Big Spring Contemporary Art Fair
THE SHED, Hudson Yards, Manhattan 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇵🇹 🇿🇦
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The Photography Show by AIPAD Is One of New York’s Premiere Fine Art Photography Fairs
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽
Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 Hip Hop and Salsa at Bronx Documentary Center
BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Affordable Art Fair New York is a Great Place to Start Your Collection
METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
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Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Meatpacking District, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
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Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024: Self-Taught Art, Art Brut, Outsider Art
METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
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Byenveni “Lakay se Lakay” is a Haitian Diasporic Art Exhibition On the Idea that Home is Home at the CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI), “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇭🇹 🇭🇹
Manny Vega’s “Byzantine Bembé, New York” is a Love Letter to “El Barrio,” Puerto Rican, and Yoruba Culture
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇧🇷
The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche are a New York Holiday Tradition
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Central Park 🇮🇹 🇪🇸
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!, First U.S. Survey of an Argentine Force in Postwar Latin American Art, is at the Jewish Museum
JEWISH MUSEUM, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ “Everything is Art” 🇦🇷 🇮🇱
Sotheby’s Emily Fisher Landau Collection Auction is this Season’s Star Auction
SOTHEBY’S, Upper East Side ~ One of the collections that defined 20th-century art narratives comes to market. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
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Art Museums in New York City
New York Latin Art Scene
New York City has been the world art capital since 1945, and is now the world capital of Latin art.
Frieze Week in May, Armory Week in September, and the May and November art auctions are pillars of New York’s art scene. The Cisneros Institute at the Museum of Modern Art makes New York the world capital of Latin American contemporary art.
The City’s museums and galleries are important, but so are the art fairs and art auctions.
New York City art districts:
- Chelsea is the latest.
- Lower East Side is up-and-coming.
- SoHo is commercial art and photography.
- 57th Street is big time.
- Upper East Side has Museum Mile, high-end Madison Avenue galleries, and Old Masters galleries.
Art Museums in New York City
Bronx Museum of the Arts exhibits art that is representative of the people of The Bronx. It’s Free.
Brooklyn Museum holds one of the world’s great collections of African art.
El Museo del Barrio is New York’s Puerto Rican and Latin American art museum. 🇵🇷
Frick Collection has an outstanding collection of Old Master paintings, European sculpture, and decorative arts.
Fotografiska New York is the New York branch of the Swedish photography museum.
Guggenheim Museum New York is one of the world’s great modern art collections. 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Hispanic Society is a research library and art museum that holds the most important collection of Hispanic art outside of Spain. 🇪🇸
Jewish Museum shows Jewish art and culture from around the world. ✡️
Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York’s encyclopedia of art and culture.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the world’s great collections of modern art, contemporary art, film, and Latin art. The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America (Cisneros Institute) makes MoMA a world center of Latin American contemporary art.
National Museum of the American Indian New York (Smithsonian) is one of the great collections of art that is Native American or Indigenous of the Americas. Many exhibits are designed for education, and presented in both English and Spanish. It’s Free.
Queens Museum exhibits art that is representative of the people of Queens.
Studio Museum in Harlem exhibits art of the African Diaspora. In 2024, a new building is under construction.
Whitney Museum of American Art exhibits modern, post-war and contemporary art of the United States. It is a thought leader in American art history.
Latin Art Galleries in New York City
Latin art galleries:
- Americas Society
- Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary 🇮🇹 🇦🇷
- Instituto de Visión 🇨🇴
- Institute for Studies in latin American Art (ISLAA)
- Leon Tovar Gallery 🇨🇴
- Marlborough New York 🇪🇸
- Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art 🇲🇽
- Mexican Cultural Institute New York (MCINY) 🇲🇽
- Nara Roesler 🇧🇷
- Praxis 🇦🇷
- Throckmorton Fine Art
NYC Art Fairs
New York art fairs and major gallery exhibitions cluster around Frieze Week in May and Armory Week in September.
Affordable Art Fair New York is a contemporary art fair of work priced between $100 and $12,000. It’s a great art fair for starting your collection.
Armory Show, contemporary and modern art fair, opens and anchors New York’s fall art season.
The Art Show (ADAA) brings America’s top galleries to New York City.
Frieze New York is NYC’s big spring contemporary art fair. Frieze Week anchors New York City’s spring art season.
Master Drawings New York shows old masters works on paper in January.
Outsider Art Fair shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art in February.
Winter Show is one of America’s leading art, antiques, and design fairs in January.
NYC Art Auctions
The May and November art auctions are pillars of New York City’s art world. Auction exhibitions are museum-quality, open to the public, and Free.
Christie’s New York, in Rockefeller Center, is one of the world’s leading auction houses.
Sotheby’s New York, in the Upper East Side, is one of the world’s leading auction houses.
About 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.
If you open your eyes, there is great art everywhere. In a way, being a New Yorker is an art form in and of itself.
Looking at Latin Art
If you look at American art (especially Latin American Art) the same way you look at European art, your own bias will blind you. We have different world views.
The art world now sees 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.
Latin Art’s Influence on American Art
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 Most Famous Latin Art in New York City That You Will Never See
Diego Rivera’s “Man, Controller of the Universe” (1934), in the Palacio de Bellas Arts in Mexico City is Rivera’s recreation of his own “Man at the Crossroads” from the atrium of 30 Rock in Rockefeller Center.
Nelson Rockefeller had it destroyed in 1933 because it includes a portrait of Lenin. He replaced it with José Maria Sert’s “American Progress” which is still there today.