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...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 by a pervasive institutional nervousness about how to deal with minority culture while maintaining the ideal of purely aesthetic standards. For ethnic art repeats the problems posed for museums by women's art: it is prone to easy stereotyping...
...vacuum has been created by the collapse of drawing instruction in the art schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister...
...Dorado has materialized in the U.S. Last week more than 500 objects of Colombian gold went on exhibit at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Most of these treasures-which next year will travel to Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans-come from Bogotá's Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), which has collected some 26,000 ancient gold pieces, often buying them up from guaqueros (professional tomb robbers) who otherwise would probably sell them to foreign collectors...
...halls across the U.S. No fewer than 169 recognized bands regularly tour New York City's circuit of Latin clubs and dance halls. Cityarts, an artists' collective now funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, mobilizes painters to create ghetto murals. Last March El Museo del Barrio, a Puerto Rican cultural museum begun in 1969, opened new quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Its first show, "Resurgiemento," included Artist Domingo Garcia, whose work is in the city's Museum of Modern Art collection. Miriam ColÓn, whose Puerto Rican Traveling Theater gives...
...greatest collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...