LATINX Perspectives

Resources by and about the Latinx community working in the fields of visual culture, museum studies, and visual arts.

The Whitney | Ask a Curator: Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945
Join curator Barbara Haskell, assistant curator Marcela Guerrero, and senior curatorial assistant Sarah Humphreville for an interactive discussion about Vida Americana. This monumental survey reveals the transformative cultural dialogue that brought together artists from Mexico and the United States in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s.

Latinx Photography in the US: Elizabeth Ferrer with Roberto Tejada
To celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Ferrer’s Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History (University of Washington Press, 2020), Ferrer and scholar Roberto Tejada will discuss the breadth and depth of Latinx photography. The conversation will underscore some of the artists and movements that have defined this field and its vitality in the context of the United States.

Muralism Today: Contemporary Artists Respond to Vida Americana
This conversation brings together artists Judith Baca, Derek Fordjour, Aliza Nisenbaum, and Juan Sánchez to reflect on Mexican Muralism and the U.S. artists who were inspired by it. They discuss works included in the exhibition "Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945" and share how they have each individually been inspired by this period of art history and its relevance today. The discussion is moderated by Marcela Guerrero, assistant curator.

Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics: Arlene Dávila in conversation with Adriana Zavala
This conversation between Arlene Dávila and Adriana Zavala explores the arguments in Dávila's most recent book, Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke, 2020). Dávila, founding director of the Latinx Project at NYU, draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look at the global contemporary art market, Dávila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists.

1-54 Forum London 2020 | What is 'Latinx'?
The term “Latinx” is an update of traditional labels such as “Hispanic” or “Latin” which emerged around the mid-twentieth century to describe Latin American migrant communities in the US. Aldeide Delgado (Independent Latinx Curator and Founding Director of Women Photographers International Archive) talks about the implications and opportunities of the new expression. Resource list.

1-54 Forum London 2020 | A View from the Other Side of Things (English)
This panel brings together cultural producers from afro-Colombian perspectives to discuss the notions of inequality and invisibility in the context of Colombia’s creative/art sector.

Latinx Art is American Art | The New School
How can we create a more complete history of American art? This panel explores the significance of contemporary artists living and working in the United States of Latin American heritage, and their contributions to current understandings of the American experience. Curators and art historians from institutions of various sizes and missions discuss the broadening of the history of art and the role of the artist. Panelists include Carmen Ramos, Adriana Zavala, Marcela Guerrero, Miguel Luciano, Lucia Hierro. This event is part of the Charlas: Latinx Art and Artists: New York Edition series sponsored by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with The New School.

U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium - Juana Valdés
U.S. Latinx Arts Futures, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, brought together artists, museum directors, curators, scholars, educators, demographers, and funders from across the country for a series of candid discussions about how we can work together to make institutions more vibrant, relevant, and inclusive.

“Queer Latinx Art” with Alma López Gaspar de Alba and Alicia Gaspar de Alba | Fowler Museum
Join artist Alma López Gaspar de Alba and her partner, UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, for a conversation tracing queer Angeleno artists’ contributions to contemporary art. Their discussion will highlight the couple’s most recent artistic collaboration, which explores the controversial life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican nun, philosopher, composer, poet, and advocate for women.

Imprimir Es Resistir / To Print Is To Resist
Printed Matter, Gato Negro Ediciones, and FERIA IMPRESIONANTE present a two part discussion series on graphic resistance practices used in the Social Uprising in Chile and Latin America and protests in the United States in the fight to protect Black lives.

Felix Gonzales Torres: A Latinx Case Study
This two-day future-focused discussion program—connecting artists, industry leaders, and the greater Miami art scene—will explore the impact that Latinx art is having on the national landscape and how greater research and academic focus can drive even greater impact. “This program addresses the complexities of artists of Latin American and Caribbean descent working in the United States, whose practices allude to U.S. art history, rather than Latin American modernism. This session focused on the work of Felix Gonzales Torres, an openly gay man who had a major influence on the politicization of art during the 1980s AIDS crisis.

Cumbre Aconcagua: La Memoria Del Agua | MoMA
Cumbre Aconcagua (the Aconcagua summit) looks at the history of water management in the Americas through the interdisciplinary work of artists, theorists, historians, lawyers, ecofeminists, scientists, and local communities. Part Three. La memoria del agua (The Memory of Water), August 11, 2020 A conversation between anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena and artist Cecilia Vicuña, moderated by Camila Marambio. Video in Spanish with English subtitles.

U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium
On September 16, U.S. Latinx Arts Futures brought together artists, museum directors, curators, scholars, educators, demographers, and funders from across the country for a series of candid discussions about how we can work together to make institutions more vibrant, relevant, and inclusive.

In the studio: Dialogues with Contemporary Artists | Americas Society
Contemporary artists from the Americas dialogue with the Americas Society Visual Arts department about their work and practice.