Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mainstream American museums have only just begun to accept that in contemporary American culture, there are many houses. Even today this recognition is not shared by everyone. But the situation has certainly improved since 1969, when New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted its hideously condescending exhibition "Harlem...
$ Institutions such as the long-established Museo del Barrio and the newer Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art in New York City have worked hard (heroically, even, considering the difficulty of funding) to set the work of Hispanic-American artists before the public. And yet there is still a gap, caused...
When most non-Spanish speaking Americans hear the words Hispanic art, they think of the Chicano murals in Los Angeles in the '70s and early '80s, noble if garish campesinos brandishing their fists from the concrete walls of storm drains. In fact, some remarkably interesting artists were involved with the...
America has no shortage of first-rate Hispanic artists who work out of deep convictions about, and connections to, their Latin heritage -- artistic, religious and ideological. There are also mediocre ones who use their ethnicity as a lever to induce guilt in curators, if not dealers (who by now are...
The path of the curator who would mount a serious survey of current Hispanic art is therefore rocky, steep and strewn with thorns. And yet it is unthinkable that serious attempts should not be made. Hence the interest of "Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors...