The Americas

Twenty images of artworks and related materials by the Slovene group OHO from the MoMA Archives have been digitized and made accessible here.

In 2016, The Museum of Modern Art received a major gift from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, which added more than 100 works of modern art by major artists from Latin America to the Museum’s collection and established the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America.

Miguel A. López, curador y escritor, da una mirada a los textos tempranos de Juan Acha, quien se consolidó como una voz crítica y vigorosa en Perú, en tiempos en que la escena artística local estaba siendo fuertemente influenciada por las prácticas conceptualistas, los disturbios politicos y el golpe military de 1968. Read the essay…

Renowned Chilean critic Adriana Valdés talks about the Chilean art scene during the dictatorship and about the work of Eugenio Dittborn.

In this essay, art historian Rita Eder reviews, from a personal and first-hand point of view, the breadth and impact of Juan Acha’s critical contribution to Latin American art from the 1970s to the 1990s. She locates Acha’s theory of no-objetualismo (non-objectualism) within his wider production and considers his preoccupations with materiality, artistic hierarchies and the circulation…

En este ensayo, Rita Eder revisa, desde su experiencia de primera mano, el profundo impacto del legado de Juan Acha. Su contribución al arte latinoamericano de los 70s, 80s y 90s es presentada por Eder en este texto que sitúa el desarrollo de la teoría del no-objetualismo en el amplio corpus de la producción de Acha que…

2016 is the centenary of the birth of Juan Acha (1916–1995), the Peruvian-born, Mexican-naturalized Latin American art critic. Recent developments in the field of Latin American art history have led to a resurgence of interest in Acha’s critical contributions, and post here presents commissioned essays as well as primary documents translated into English for the first time.

Consulting the MoMA Archives, this essay highlights and expands upon connections between the Slovene conceptual artists OHO Group and one of the Museum’s most well-known exhibitions.

In this interview, recorded a few months before Davidovich’s passing, curator Ana Janevski talks with the Argentine-American artist about his career, his early days in New York City and Cleveland, and his work Tape Wall Project (1970/1988), recently acquired by MoMA. This is the first of two parts. Read the second part here. ANA JANEVSKI:…

Consulting the MoMA Archives, this essay highlights and expands upon connections between the Slovene conceptual artists OHO Group and one of the Museum’s most well-known exhibitions.

Professor Natalia Brizuela shares her thoughts on how to approach Latin American modern and contemporary artistic practices.

ator Luis Pérez-Oramas considers the roots of the classicizing and modernist impulses in the work of Joaquín Torres-García. The essay examines a driving paradox of the artist’s work—the will to be modern while working against the grain of modernity—following episodes in his life, writings, and works.