Latin Art

Browse features on Latin art in New York City art museums, galleries, art fairs, auction houses, parks, and on the streets.

Latin Art News

Spring Break Art Show 2019

MIDTOWN EAST; Armory Week Tue-Mon, Mar 5-11, 2019; contemporary art fair ~ A curator’s art fair with installations that range from wonderful to trashy

ADAA The Art Show 2019

UPPER EAST SIDE; pre-Armory Week, Gala preview Wed Feb 27; Fair Feb 28-Mar 3, 2019 ~ The art fair of the association of America’s leading art dealers

Joan Miró

Daily, Feb 24 – June 15, 2019
Spanish art exhibition
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Explore the development of Joan Miró’s visual language

Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library

MURRAY HILL | Tue-Sun, Feb 15 – May 19, 2019 | Italian Renaissance art exhibition | The development of Renaissance drawing practices in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries

Da Vinci Drawings and Prints at the Met Museum

UPPER EAST SIDE, Jan 28-Apr 28, 2019, Italian old masters art exhibition ~ The Met celebrates the Italian master’s 500th anniversary by showing drawings and prints from the permanent collection.

Lucio Fontana ‘Spatial Environment’ (1968) at El Museo del Barrio

EAST HARLEM; Jan 24 – Apr 14, 2019; Argentine Italian post war art exhibition ~ El Museo reconstructs Fontana’s very last environment. See how his ideas influenced performance art and take a selfie

Lucio Fontana ‘On the Threshold’ Argentine-Italian art at the Met Breuer

UPPER EAST SIDE; Tue-Sun, Jan 23 to Apr 14, 2019; Argentine Italian post war art exhibition ~ The minimalist abstract artist mixed painting, sculpture and architecture in ways that foretold performance art

Mariana Castillo Deball ‘Finding Oneself Outside’ at the New Museum

LOWER EAST SIDE; Tue-Sun, Jan 22 – Apr 14, 2019; Mexican contemporary art exhibition ~ Castillo Deball looks at the intersections of space and time with culture and philosophy

Discover Art Brut at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair

CHELSEA, January 17-20, 2019 ~ America’s leading art fair for “Art Brut” or art created outside the art world.
# french art fair

Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr. Photo Exhibition

SCHOMBURG CENTER, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

Mateo López “Play” Colombian art at Casey Kaplan

CHELSEA, Tue-Sat, Jan 11-Feb 16, 2019 ~ Sculpture, paper and film exploring play as a means of transformation
# colombian contemporary art exhibition

Salvador Dali Spanish Art at ACA Galleries

CHELSEA; Tue-Sat, Jan 10-Mar 9, 2019; Spanish modern art exhibition ~ Etchings, tapestries and drawings from the famous Argillet Collection (his collaborator & publisher)

Boom for Real is the Story of Young Jean-Michel Basquiat

IFC CENTER, West Village, Manhattan ~ Documentary about the iconic Haitian Puerto Rican artist’s early years and the City that formed him. 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

The Salon Art + Design Fair 2018 is a matter of taste

November 8 – 12, 2018
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PREVIEW, November 8
Nathalie and Laura de Gunzburg
Benefits Dia Art Foundation
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Park Avenue Arrmory
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Historic, modern and contemporary furniture and groundbreaking design

Raul Conti shows 58 years of Argentine Art at Quebracho

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, October 19, 2018
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EXHIBITION
October 19 – 26, 2018
Monday – Friday
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Quebracho
Bushwick, Brooklyn
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Seasoned Argentine artist inspired by pre-Columbian cultures

Tintoretto Italian art at the Metropolitan Museum

UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, Oct 16, 2018 to Jan 27, 2019 ~ Italian Renaissance art exhibition. The Met celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Renaissance artist known for working rapidly in a Mannerist style.

Socrates Annual 2018 at Socrates Sculpture Park

Daily, October 7, 2018 to March 24, 2019
Dominican French Peruvian & Puerto Rican sculpture
ASTORIA, Queens ~ Annual outdoor sculpture show in the NYC park. FREE

NY Art Book Fair 2018 ~ the world of books

FAIR (FREE)
Friday – Sunday
September 21 – 23, 2018
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TICKETED PREVIEW
Thursday, September 20, 2018
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MoMA PS1
Long Island City, Queens
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Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Jewish, Mexican, Portuguese and Puerto Rican books.

Lola Alvarez Bravo & Mariana Yampolsky Time of Change

September 21 – November 10, 2018
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
Midtown East, NYC

Delacroix

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, September 17, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ The rich colors and emotions of this Romantic painter inspired the Impressionists and all who followed
#FRENCH #ROMANTIC #PAINTER

Down These Mean Streets at El Museo del Barrio

EAST HARLEM, Wed-Sat, Sep 13, 2018 to Jan 6, 2019 ~ Latino photographers provide an insider’s view of the street life in their own neighborhoods
# latino photography exhibition

Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal

NEW MUSEUM, LOWER EAST SIDE, Tue-Sun, September 4, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ French artist channels the Goddess of prehistoric Venus figurines
#FRENCH #CONTEMPORARY #SCULPTOR

Fritz St. Jean narrates Haitian History in Paint at First Street Gallery

Monday – Friday
August 13 – 29, 2018
FIRST STREET GALLERY, Chelsea, NYC

White | Black monochrome group show of art stars at Acquavella Galleries

August 13 – September 28, 2018
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Acquavella Galleries
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Compare the aesthetics of Miquel Barceló (Spanish), Louise Bourgeois (French), Jean Dubuffet (French), Jacob El Hanani (Jewish), Manolo Millares (Spanish), Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan) and Americans Keith Haring, Robert Longo & Andy Warhol.

Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean

July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE

Vantage Point 24 – Celebrating 20 years

THE POINT CDC, HUNTS POINT, THE BRONX, Mon-Fri, July 25 to December 31, 2018 ~ 20 years of community photography by students and alumni of The International Center of Photography at The Point

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture

July 13 – September 30, 2018
Closed Tuesdays
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Whitney Museum
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
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See how Indigenous cosmology suggests architecture which defines home and life itself

Obsession, Nudes with Attitude by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso

Tuesday – Sunday
July 3 – October 7, 2018
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Met Breuer
Upper East Side, Manhattan

Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at 205 Hudson Gallery

A touring show from the Getty Museum’s Latino art exhibition ‘Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’
205 Hudson Gallery
Tribeca, Manhattan
Wednesday – Sunday
June 21 – August 19, 2018

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: The House at Kawinal at the New Museum

Literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories in this Guatemalan performance art installation and sculpture exhibition.
New Museum
Lower East Side, Manhattan
June 6 – September 9, 2018
Closed Mondays

Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu, Indigenous Chilean art

Wed-Sun, May 18-November 25, 2018
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn ~ Chilean artist resurrects an ancient Indigenous Andean knotted cord writing and reading system at the Brooklyn Museum

Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

May 10 – October 8, 2018
Daily
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Met Cloisters
Washington Heights / Inwood, Manhattan
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The Costume Institute creates a pilgrimage that explores the influence of Roman Catholic imagery on fashion