Latin American Art
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New Book Explores How Pre-Hispanic Objects Went From Cultural Artifacts to Art
Getty volume reveals the untold stories of the looting and collecting of Mesoamerican antiquities
Alfredo Boulton: Listening to Venezuela
What does an exhibition sound like? From joropo and salsa to boleros and rock, this is the music of Alfredo Boulton
Dream of Darkness
A new video game looks to a 16th-century manuscript as source material
Competing Narratives on the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
What Is a Codex?
Basically, a big book
The “Scandalous Life” of Cesar Moro
Surrealist artist and poet Cesar Moro, a central figure in the early 20th-century avant-garde
The Unwhitewashing of América Tropical
Summer Ibarra’s project as a Getty Marrow intern introduced her to a censored mural she now works to preserve
Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)
This exhibition was drawn from the trove of papers and photographs from the Getty’s Alfredo Boulton archive
New Monograph Showcases María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s Innovative Oeuvre
This book is the first critical look at the artist’s practice in nearly 20 years
New Volume on Venezuelan Photographer Alfredo Boulton
This title analyzes the full breadth of Boulton’s contributions to Venezuelan art and intellectual culture