Arts & Culture

This innovative exhibition explores the descriptive tradition of "costumbrismo" as it developed in South America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The catalogue focuses on the cultural responses opened up by trade and commerce in the nineteenth century, and also traces the broad circulation of costume books, prints, and watercolors within South America, Asia, and Europe.

A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society offers collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States.

The 40th anniversary edition of Review, culled from the hundreds of translations first published in the journal, evidences the Americas Society's deep commitment to presenting innovative works by hemispheric visionaries at all stages of their careers. The edition closes with a special supplement on Cultural Agents, an increasingly important role played by Americas Society, an organization dedicated to creative interventions for the promotion of democracy and social development.

This is the catalogue of the first solo institutional exhibition of Uruguayan artist José Gurvich in New York. This important exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramics, produced between 1957 and 1973, examines Gurvich’s role in the School of the South as a student of Joaquin Torres-García and an exponent of constructivism nationally and internationally.

Includes key texts featured in the Americas Society Literature Spring Program, including those by Argentine author Marcos Aguinis, Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, Mexican-born author Ilan Stavans (interviewed by Gabriel Sanders of The Forward), Argentine writer Luisa Futoransky, Peruvian poet Isaac Goldemberg, filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, and leading scholar of Jewish Latin American literature Edna Aizenberg. The work of visual artists Guillermo Kuitca, José Gurvich, and Frans Krajcberg are also showcased in the issue.

These works were drawn from the contemporary art section in Banco Mercantil's extensive art collection in Caracas. The work of Venezuelan artists in this exhibit highlight dialogues with the past and present, reflecting a break from kinetic art and the idea of modernity as a concept in crisis.

Features essays, poetry and fiction by writers in the Americas Society’s “Mexico NOW” literature programs “Out of the Labyrinth: Mexican Literature Today” (Nov. 18) and “Bat at Noon:  Remembering Luis Ignacio Helguera” (Nov. 19), among them Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, Coral Bracho and Carlos Monsiváis.