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Visual Arts at Americas Society
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The Visual Arts program boasts the longest-standing private space in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada; it has achieved a unique and renowned leadership position in the field, producing both historical and contemporary exhibitions. The Visual Arts program presents three exhibitions annually, each accompanied by a series of public and educational programs featuring outstanding artists, curators, critics and scholars. The Visual Arts program produces exhibition catalogues as well as scholarly publications, including the seminal work, A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society.
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The Society’s Visual Arts department, dedicated to fostering a better understanding of art in the American regions beyond U.S. borders from the pre-Columbian era to the present day, produces gallery exhibitions, illustrated catalogs, and a variety of public programs. The quality of our exhibitions attests to the diversity and heritage of the Americas, and upholds the mandate of the Americas Society to foster a better understanding of the art made in these regions from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
The visual arts program boasts the longest-standing private space in the United States dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Americas Society is recognized for its catalyzing role in establishing Latin American art markets in the United States and helping to expand the notion of modernity in the western hemisphere. The success of the department is rooted in its role as not merely a consecratory venue, but also as a platform for new artistic visions and achievements from throughout the Americas.
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Artist Juan Tessi in Conversation with Verónica Flom
Friday, May 4, 2018 - 6:30pm | New York
An Attempt to Become Modern
Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 6:30pm | New York
Exhibition On View
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
March 22 to June 30, 2018
Over the course of a century of rapid urban growth, sociopolitical upheavals, and cultural transitions reshaped the architectural landscapes of major cities in Latin America. Focusing on six capitals—Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile—The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930, presents the colonial city as a terrain shaped by Iberian urban regulations, and the republican city as an arena of negotiation of previously imposed and newly imported models, which were later challenged by waves of indigenous revivals. Photographs, prints, plans, and maps depict the urban impact of key societal and economic transformations, including the emergence of a bourgeois elite, and extensive infrastructure projects, rapid industrialization, and commercialization.
This exhibition was co-curated by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato and organized by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Learn more about the exhibition.
The Visual Arts program boasts the longest-standing private space in the U.S. dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada; it has achieved a unique and renowned leadership position in the field, producing both historical and contemporary exhibitions. The Visual Arts program present three exhibitions annually, each accompanied by a series of public and educational programs featuring outstanding artists, curators, critics and scholars.
Explore our past exhibitions below, and view a timeline of Visual Arts exhibitions dating back to 1967.
Past Exhibitions
José Leonilson: Empty Man
September 27, 2017
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg
May 04, 2017
Facundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina and other modest observations
January 25, 2017
Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press
September 14, 2016
Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook by Silvia Gruner
February 24, 2016
Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists' Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
October 30, 2015
Portraiture Now: Staging the Self
June 10, 2015
Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940–1978
February 11, 2015
Spatial Acts: Americas Society Commissions Art
October 07, 2014
Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas
April 29, 2014
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The gallery is free and open to the public.
Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12–6 p.m.
Learn about our upcoming exhibition The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930.
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680 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
(212) 249-8950
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Take the train to 68th Street/Hunter College or the
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train to Lexington Ave/63rd Street. We are located on the northwest corner of East 68th Street and Park Avenue.
Special editions of books covering visual arts of the western Hemisphere and published by the Americas Society.
A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society
Saturday, December 31, 2005
A Hemispheric Venture: Thirty-Five Years of Culture at the Americas Society
Friday, December 31, 1999
The Visual Arts department offers a variety of beautifully illustrated catalogues that chronicle past Americas Society exhibitions.
José Leonilson: Empty Man
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg
Friday, July 14, 2017
Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Marta Minujín: MinucodeS
Monday, December 14, 2015
Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940–1978
Monday, July 20, 2015
Cruz-Diez in Black and White
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Observed: Milagros de la Torre
Thursday, December 13, 2012