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Latin Art in New York City is in museums, galleries, art fairs, parks, and on the street.

New York City has several art districts. Chelsea is the latest. The Lower East Side is up-and-coming. SoHo is commercial art and photography. 57th Street is big time. The Upper East Side has Museum Mile, high-end Madison Avenue galleries, and Old Masters galleries.

Thursday is NYC’s main art gallery opening night. It’s fun to walk around the Chelsea art district from 6-8pm. The art is great and so is the people watching. It’s a great date.


Latin Art in New York City

Affordable Art Fair New York (Ehw258/Dreamstime)

Affordable Art Fair New York Fall 2023 is a Great Way to Start Collecting

International commercial art priced under $12,000.

METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Chelsea, Manhattan

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Armory Show 2023 (Vincent Tullo/Armory Show)

The Armory Show Brings International Latin and African Galleries to New York

New York’s big fall contemporary art fair anchors Armory Week.

JAVITS CENTER
Hudson, Yards

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Independent 20th Century (Oleg/Adobe)

Independent 20th Century Art Fair Looks Deeper Into the Recent Past

The Independent 20th Century 2023 art fair recasts the recent past with a New York state of mind. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

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Spring Break Art Show 2023 (Guarddon/Adobe)

Spring Break Art Show Always Plays the Wild Card

NYC’s most avant-garde art fair is a curator’s fair of rooms in unused office space. It’s a great date!

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Frieze New York 2023 (Tanyabird777/Dreamstime)

Frieze New York 2023 Brings International Galleries to One of NYC’s Contemporary Art Cores

Frieze brings hi-end contemporary art galleries from 27 countries to New York. The Frieze Week cluster of art fairs puts New York on the international art calendar.

THE SHED
Hudson Yards, Manhattan
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TEFAF New York 2023 (Lmarc1/Dreamstime)

TEFAF New York 2023 Brings Europe’s Most Prestigious Antiques Fair to NYC

31 Latin galleries are among 91 dealers of high-end antique art.

PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side
Friday-Tuesday, May 12-16, 2023
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Future Fair NYC 2023 contemporary art fair (Mike Orlov/Adobe)

The Future Fair 2023 Brings Diversity to the Art-Industrial Complex

A contemporary art fair that works to bring diverse crop of emerging artists and art galleries into the art-industrial complex.

CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL
Thursday-Saturday, May 11-13, 2023
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Chosen Memories installation (Jonathan Dorado/MoMA)

Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art

The Cisneros Institute show the power of giving.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Midtown, Manhattan
April 30 – September 9, 2023

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Black Arts Movement Examined at Harlem Stage

Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference

Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Dafnis Prieto, Tavia Nyong’o, Vernon Reid

HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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Rhythm Bass and Place (Joe Conzo Jr/CCCADI)

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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New York Now: Home at the Museum of the City of New York (Brad Farwell/MCNY)

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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Outsider Art Fair New York 2023 (Elena Ray/Adobe)

Outsider Art Fair New York 2023 is at the Metropolitan Pavilion

Thursday-Sunday, March 2-5, 2023
Chelsea, NYC
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Bispo do Rosário (Jean Manzon/Americas Society)

Bispo do Rosário: All Existing Materials on Earth, Brings Brazilian Outsider Art to Americas Society

January 25 – May 20, 2023
Upper East Side, NYC
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The Winter Show (José Ignacio Soto/Adobe)

The Winter Show 2023 is at the Park Avenue Armory

Friday-Sunday, January 20-29, 2023
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, NYC
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Master Drawings New York (Mrreporter/Dreamstime)

Master Drawings New York 2023 is Showing Old Masters and Contemporary Masters

Friday, January 20-28, 2023
Online through February 28, 2023
25 ART GALLERIES
Upper East Side, NYC
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Francisco Oller "La Ceiba de Ponce" 1888 (El Museo de Arte de Ponce)

Remember Francisco Oller, the Puerto Rican Impressionist!

Saturday, June 17, 2023
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Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque (Eddie Toro/Dreamstime)

The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche are a New York Holiday Tradition

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Central Park
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Celebrate Mexico Now (Lukas/Adobe)

Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 Brings Contemporary Mexican Culture to NYC

November 14-27, 2022
CENTER FOR FICTION
BAXTER ST CAMERA CLUB
ALIANZA DOMINICANA
PANGEA
SOBRE MASA
AMERICAS SOCIETY
LA NACIONAL
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE
Fort Greene, Little Italy, Washington Heights, East Village, East Williamsburg, Upper East Side, Chelsea, Astoria

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National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair (Ana L. Alicea/PRIDA)

National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair 2022 is at Hostos Center

Saturday, November 19, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Salon Art + Design NYC (Chaosamran Studio/Adobe)

Salon Art + Design 2022 Interior Design Art Fair is at the Park Avenue Armory

Thursday-Sunday, November 10-14, 2022
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, Manhattan

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The Art Show by the ADAA (Shiningcolors/Dreamstime)

The Art Show 2022 by the ADAA Association of America’s Top Galleries is at the Park Avenue Armory

PREVIEW
Tuesday, November 2, 2022

ART FAIR
Wednesday-Sunday, November 3-6, 2022
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Adál Maldonado "Coconauts in Space" 1988 (Estate/Roberto Paradise)

Adál Maldonado Is a Great Puerto Rican Surrealist Photographer #AdalWasHere

November 1
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IFPDA Print Fair (Vonora/Dreamstime)

IFPDA Print Fair 2022 is at Javits Center

VIP Preview Thursday, October 27, 2022
Friday-Sunday, October 28-30, 2022
JAVITS CENTER
Hudson Yards
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FIAF Crossing the Line Festival 2022 (Nunu/Adobe)

The FIAF Crossing the Line Festival 2022 Brings Great Francophone Performers to NYC

Friday, September 9 – October 28, 2022
FIAF and other venues
Upper East Side & NYC
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NYC Art Book Fair (Chen Bifeng/Dreamstime)

NY Art Book Fair 2022 Moves to Chelsea, Manhattan

Thursday-Sunday, October 13-16, 2022
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Chelsea, Manhattan
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Affordable Art Fair New York (Ehw258/Dreamstime)

Affordable Art Fair New York Fall 2022 Shows International Art Priced Under $10,000

Thursday-Sunday, September 22-25, 2022
METROPOLITAN PAVILION
Chelsea, Manhattan
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Armory Show (Casey Kelbaugh/Armory Show)

The Armory Show 2022 has a Latin American and LatinX Focus at Javits Center

Friday-Sunday, September 9-11, 2022
JAVITS CENTER
Hudson Yards, Manhattan

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Spring / Break Art Show (alfa27/Adobe)

The Spring Break Art Show 2022 Bleeding Edge, Independent Curator’s Art Fair is at 625 Madison

ARMORY WEEK
Wednesday-Monday, September 7-12, 2022
ATLANTIC PRODUCTION CENTER
Midtown East

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Independent 20th Century 2022 art fair (Khorzhevska/Adobe)

The Independent 20th Century Art Fair Reframes Contemporary Art History

Thursday-Sunday, September 8-11, 2022
CIPRIANI SOUTH STREET
Manhattan Financial District
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Brasil Summerfest NYC (Eduard Marques Mortimer/Dreamstime)

Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC

Sunday, July 24, 2022
BAILE FUNK DANCE PARTY
House of Yes
Bushwick, Brooklyn

FESTIVAL
Wednesday, June 29 – Sunday, July 24, 2022
Art, Baile Funk, Dance, Film, Jazz, MPB, Samba
Brooklyn Public Library, DUMBO Archway, House of Yes, Le Poisson Rouge, Lincoln Center, Nublu, Museum of the Moving Image, Steven Amedee Gallery
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Latin Art Archive

Latin Art Museums in NYC

National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian, exhibits one of the great collections of Indigenous art of the Americas. Many exhibits are designed for education, and presented in both English and Spanish. It’s Free.

The Brooklyn Museum holds one of the world’s great collections of African art.

Bronx Museum of the Arts exhibitions represent the people of The Bronx. It’s Free.

El Museo del Barrio started as a museum of Puerto Rican art, but has grown into New York’s museum of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American art.

Hispanic Society is a research library and art museum that holds the most important collection of Hispanic art outside of Spain.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York’s encyclopedia of human art and culture.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibits one of the world’s great collections of modern art, contemporary art, and film. The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America makes it a world center of Latin American contemporary art.

The Studio Museum in Harlem exhibits art of the African Diaspora.

New York Art Fairs

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.

The Origin of 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 That You Will Never See

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.

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