Picturing Guatemala: Images form the CIRMA Photo Archive 1870-1997

Friday, December 31, 1999

This exhibition explored the history and development of photography in Guatemala in over 100 images, from temples to plantations, travelers to politicians, soldiers to families, offering an exhilarating view of over 120 years of the nation’s cultural history. ... Read More

A Hemispheric Venture: Thirty-Five Years of Culture at the Americas Society

Friday, December 31, 1999

In celebration of the Americas Society’s thirty-fifth anniversary and of David Rockefeller’s eighty-fifth birthday, we proudly present this spectacular book, which includes a collection of historical photographs and informative essays by several experts on the cultures of the region. ... Read More

Talavera Poblana: Four Centuries of Mexican Ceramic Tradition

Tuesday, August 31, 1999

This catalogue is based on a historic study of the ceramic tradition in Puebla, Mexico with a summary of contemporary ceramic practices. It includes essays by Margaret Connors McOuade and Jaime Contreras Castro as well as an exhibition checklist. ... Read More

Clara Gutsche: The Convent Series

Monday, May 31, 1999

These photographs testify to the remarkable talent and tenacity of the artist as well as to the cloistered religious communities of Québec, among the last in North America. ... Read More

Gerardo Suter: Labyrinth of Memory

Sunday, January 31, 1999

This exhibition presented a mid-career survey of a dozen years of his work, which ranges from early photographs of enigmatic landscapes and ruins, to larger prints of more dramatic tableaux featuring nude figures with masks and other props, to recent monumental installations that combine photography with video and performance elements. ... Read More

Crosscurrents: Contemporary Painting from Panama 1968-1998

Thursday, April 30, 1998

This is the bilingual exhibition catalogue of paintings by fourteen Panamanian artists with essays by Monica E. Kupfer, Edward J. Sullivan, and Celestino Andrés Aratiz. Kupfer provides an overview of twentieth century art history in Panama. ... Read More

The True Poetry: The Art of Maria Izquierdo

Wednesday, April 30, 1997

This bilingual catalogue of the retrospective exhibition of the seminal Mexican painter includes essays by Elizabeth Ferrer, Olivier Debroise, and Elena Poniatowska. ... Read More

Embodied Abstraction: Laura Anderson Barbata, Linda Matalon, Ricardo Mazal

Friday, January 31, 1997

This exhibition catalogue covers the work of three artists in New York, whose paintings, sculptures, and drawings engage the modernist tradition and the legacy of abstraction while addressing concerns of the human body. Anderson and Mazal hail from Mexico, while Matalon is a Cuban American. The catalogue includes texts by Joseph R. Wolin. ... Read More

Modern and Contemporary Art from the Dominican Republic

Friday, May 31, 1996

This bilingual catalogue provides a glimpse of the first comprehensive survey of twentieth-century Dominican art to be presented in the United States. The catalogue includes essays by Edward J. Sullivan, Jeannette Miller, Marianne de Tolentino, and Elizabeth Ferrer. ... Read More