Latin American Art
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Pottery Then and Now
Little has changed since antiquity, it turns out, when it comes to the best ways of shaping a bowl or firing a pot
New Book Explores How Pre-Hispanic Objects Went From Cultural Artifacts to Art
Getty volume reveals the untold stories of the looting and collecting of Mesoamerican antiquities
Alfredo Boulton: Listening to Venezuela
What does an exhibition sound like? From joropo and salsa to boleros and rock, this is the music of Alfredo Boulton
Dream of Darkness
A new video game looks to a 16th-century manuscript as source material
Competing Narratives on the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
What Is a Codex?
Basically, a big book
The “Scandalous Life” of Cesar Moro
Surrealist artist and poet Cesar Moro, a central figure in the early 20th-century avant-garde
The Unwhitewashing of América Tropical
Summer Ibarra’s project as a Getty Marrow intern introduced her to a censored mural she now works to preserve
Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)
This exhibition was drawn from the trove of papers and photographs from the Getty’s Alfredo Boulton archive
New Monograph Showcases María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s Innovative Oeuvre
This book is the first critical look at the artist’s practice in nearly 20 years