23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend
23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend
Americas Society's The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 exhibit is featured in The New York Times list of 23 art exhibits to see.
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 at Americas Society (through June 30). Fans of Latin American architecture are overly besotted with the modernist era: Luis Barragán’s color-saturated houses in Mexico City, Oscar Niemeyer’s cutting-edge presidential palace in Brasília. But this eye-opening show turns the clock back 100 years and shows how six cities — Buenos Aires; Havana; Lima, Peru; Mexico City; Rio de Janeiro; and Santiago, Chile — used architecture and urban design to express new national ambitions.
Vintage photographs disclose how in Mexico’s sprawling capital its new republican government erected statues of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor, while Argentina plowed out lordly avenues in imitation of Haussmann-era Paris.
Learn about The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930, exhibition, on view until June 30th.
