Making Art History: Developing Archives of Latino/Latin American Art
05 June 2004
El Museo del Barrio
Teatro Heckscher
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104 Street
10:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
Image: John R. Harris 2001 Making Art History: Developing Archives of Latino/Latin American Art
El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art Library cordially invite you to a symposium dedicated to the MoMA Library’s current Survey of Latino Archives,( a historic effort to preserve, document and publish the continuing heritage of Latino artists in the New York Metropolitan Area. Latino and Latin American experts from the East and West Coasts will address the state of U.S. Latino visual arts documentation. They will also consider methods to increase awareness of archival practices and improve public accessibility to existing Latino art archives, with the hope to secure the history-and future-of this vital community. Selected institutions in New York containing archival and bibliographic material relevant to New York’s Latino visual arts community will also be discussed.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Miriam Basilio, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings, MoMA Rita Gonzalez, Arts Project Coordinator, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Jessica Hankey, Assistant to the Latin American Specialist, MoMA Library Amy Rosenblum Martin, Assistant Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Associate Director for Arts and Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation
Welcoming remarks by Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Moderated by Taina Caragol, Bibliographer, Latin American Specialist, MoMA Library
For further information, please call 212.408.6364 or visit www.elmuseo.org.
The panel is free with museum admission.
The Survey of Latino Archives is made possible thanks to a Documentary Heritage Program grant awarded by the Metropolitan New York Library Council to The MoMA Library in Fall 2003. MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
On view at El Museo del Barrio through July 25, 2004.
This collaborative exhibition, organized by a curatorial team from MoMA and El Museo del Barrio, provides an overview outlining the history of MoMA’s collection of Latin American art. The presentation at El Museo del Barrio comprises over 100 works in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and artists’ books.
The first section includes major paintings and drawings by Mexicans Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros that were acquired by the Museum in the 1930s. The next section highlights works acquired from throughout Latin America by artists including Antonio Berni, Frida Kahlo, and Wifredo Lam, all purchased after the creation of the Museum’s Inter-American Fund in 1942. The third focuses on the 1960s, with particular emphasis on drawings and prints by artists such as Leon Ferrari, Gego, and Marisol. The exhibition culminates in a presentation of the Museum’s most recent acquisitions, as it continues to collect contemporary works in various media by such artists as Cildo Meireles, Vik Muniz, Gabriel Orozco and Doris Salcedo. A fully illustrated catalogue, including several essays by the curators, and a range of educational programs accompany the exhibition. MoMA at El Museo is organized for The Museum of Modern Art by Gary Garrels, Chief Curator, Department of Drawings, and Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture; Luis-Enrique Perez-Oramas, Adjunct Curator, Department of Drawings; and Miriam Basilio, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings; and for El Museo del Barrio by Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator, and Deborah Cullen, Curator.
Bloomberg is the lead sponsor of this exhibition. Major support is provided by Altria Group, Inc. Additional support provided by: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art; The Reed Foundation, Inc.; Joseph and Carmen Ana Unanue; Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky; Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro; Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi. Additional funding provided by: Yolanda Santos Garza; GEICO; LEF Foundation; Power Corporation of Canada; Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Inc.; Tony Bechara; The Board of Trustees and Advisory Board of El Museo del Barrio.
Museum hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 11 am to 5pm
Thursday, 11 to 8 pm
Directions: El Museo del Barrio is located at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street and may be reached by subway: #6 to 103rd Street Station; #2, #3 to 110th St and Lenox Av. station or by bus: M1, M3, M4 on Madison and Fifth Avenues to 104th Street; local cross-town service between Yorkville or East Harlem and the Upper West Side in Manhattan M96 and M106 or M2.
