This Must Be the Place Featured in The New York Times' Best Art Exhibitions of 2021
This Must Be the Place Featured in The New York Times' Best Art Exhibitions of 2021
"Americas Society put together an invaluable two-part historical show," write Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith.
The year 2021 was about recovery — slow, partial, tentative, ongoing — from lockdown. Over the summer, museums and galleries rebooted, but with masking and distancing in place. After a year of social isolation, a market trend in easy-to-like figure painting had natural appeal, with portrait shows everywhere. (New York had Medicis and Alice Neel; Hans Holbein and the Obamas currently hold court in Los Angeles) But for me, many of the most memorable events were either outside bicoastal centers or in unusual locations and forms within them…
Americas Society put together an invaluable two-part historical show called “This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975” (through May 14). And there was more, a lot. There will always be…
The exhibition explored the work of a generation of artists who shaped New York City's artistic and cultural landscape.
