A Constellation of Stars from the Latin Art World
A Constellation of Stars from the Latin Art World
"Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime…will further expand the picture," writes Holland Cotter in The New York Times.
Of the powerhouse exhibitions headed our way this season, “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth” at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth (Sept. 18-Jan. 29) heads my list for its title alone. Given the state of our combusting, war-racked planet, we could use some outside help, and in the painterly cosmos of the 17th-century Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo it’s there: Angels and saints beam down to succor ordinary folk, and everyone looks touched by grace. A popular art of immense sophistication in a one-stop-only show.
Divine protection and healing will also be the dual dynamic of “Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition” at the Yale University Art Gallery (Sept. 9-Jan. 8). Harvested from international collections, the show will feature the monumental and fantastically intricate ritual sculptures and masks carved by the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (circa 1885-1975) and his workshop. We get museum solos devoted to Western “masters” all the time; ones devoted to African artists, almost never. Not to be missed. […]
Other fall entries — “Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime” at Americas Society in New York (Sept. 7-Dec. 17) and “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Nov. 19-April 23) — will further expand the picture, as will “Judith F. Baca: World Wall,” devoted to the eminent Chicana muralist, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (Sept. 10-Feb. 19)…
This exhibition featured works by 19 contemporary artists from the Caribbean and their diasporas.
