Art

"Brazilian art is in a state of very high creativity. It's a powerful moment," said Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel, whose first U.S. solo exhibition Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! is on view through December 10 at the Americas Society gallery. (en español)

The publication Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! is produced in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition held at Americas Society’s Art Gallery. This catalogue features reproductions of Antonio Manuel’s artwork from the 1960s and 70s, in which he manipulates images appropriated from the mass media, explores performance and video art techniques, and reinterprets the human body itself as a vehicle for art.

"Antonio Manuel is a very important artist for this period [during the 1960s and 1970s], in between the intersection of conceptual art, neo-concretism, and pop art," says AS/COA's Gabriela Rangel speaking of Americas Society's exhibition Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! (em portugues)

See what Literature, Music, and Visual Arts programming is taking place at Americas Society this Fall.

Edward J. Sullivan, the guest curator of America Society's exhibition Observed, spoke to photographer Milagros de la Torre about the artistic practices she has employed over the course of her career.