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Film historian Ashish Rajadhyaksha discusses major moments in the study of early Indian cinema, a history that is punctuated by fires both on the screen and off the screen.

Painting 9 by Hélio Oiticica was made in 1959, at a pivotal moment for a new and quintessentially Brazilian form of modernism.

This series presents newly translated texts from the 1970s by Conceptual artists from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Art historian Anna Pravdová delves deep into the MoMA Archives to highlight the Museum’s first exhibition of Czech art.

Sarah Suzuki examines Schendel’s use of Japanese paper in the work at Objeto Gráfico (1967).

Art historian, theorist, critic, and museum activist Gustavo Buntinx, answers C-MAP’s 5 Questions, from a Peruvian and Latin American perspective, and challenges us to prevent the normalization of difference in the visual arts.

Artist Gluklya (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya) speaks about the importance of specific, local narratives for her work: “The experiments that I am doing… are the only reality, the only narrative that I can imagine.”

Curator Laura Hoptman comments on the importance of Raúl Lozza’s work Invention no. 150, which connects Concretism, Neo-Concretism, and Conceptual art movements.

Art historian Anna Pravdová delves deep into the MoMA Archives to highlight the Museum’s first exhibition of Czech art.

Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and a leading expert on Soviet nonconformist art, challenges us to redefine the basic meaning of “art.”

Physichromie 21 by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is another highlight of the Cisneros’ gift to the Museum. Anne Umland, traces this work back to the artist’s studio in Paris in the 1960s and explores the ways Cruz-Diez’s Physichromie series is dependent on active viewer participation and contingencies of lighting.

In 1973, critic and theorist Juan Acha published the text Por una nueva problemática artística en Latinoamérica in Artes Visuales. The critical essay is available here in the original Spanish as well as translated into English for the first time.