When New York City Was a Gritty Haven for Latin American Art
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Excerpts from a new book recall how urban decay collided with international cultural ferment in the 1960s and ’70s.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on supply chains This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 compiles striking testimonies about migrating to New York City during a decade when urban decay coincided with cultural ferment. The project was inspired by an exhibit of the same name that ran from September 2021 through May 2022 at the Americas Society. Sylvia Palacios Whitman: “We didn’t have a penny when we arrived in New York. We didn’t know anybody, and I didn’t speak a word of English—my...
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