Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Long Shopper (Limo)

Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Long Shopper (Limo), courtesy of the artist and Royale Projects.

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El Dorado Is Featured in Hyperallergic's Spring 2024 New York Art Guide

The art website highlights that "the mythical 'El Dorado'...is the curatorial crux of this two-part group exhibition" by Americas Society.

You could tell the history of the Americas through gold, from its sacred status in pre-colonization Colombia to the trappings of contemporary wealth. The mythical “El Dorado” — a rumored Indigenous kingdom whose abundance captivated the imagination of European colonizers — is the curatorial crux of this two-part group exhibition, which includes more than 60 artists spanning millennia.

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