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Tag Archives: Joaquin Torres- Garcia

1. The Museum of Modern Art and the Art of Disruption

   Museum of Modern Art disrupts our expectations in one exhibition after another, engaging political art, reinterpreting historical modernists and surprising us with irreverence.

   This entry was posted on February 20, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: and Spatial Information Design Lab, Chimei Hamda, David Reinfurt, David Smith, Edward Burra, El Techo de la Ballena, Eric Cadora, Glenn Lowry, Joaquin Torres- Garcia, Laura Kurgan, Maria Martins, Museum of Modern Art, RIchard Serra, Sarah Williams, Shomei Tomatsu

2. “Our America” Abstraction and Identity

   Is abstraction an elite practice that denies identity? Abstract art is rarely what it seems to be. To stop at a formal analysis of such work misses its context, meaning and significance.

   This entry was posted on March 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Latino Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "cubism and abstract art", "Our America The Latino Presence in American Art, "Our America", abstract art, Alfred Barr, Bojorquez, Carmen Herrera, Carmen Ramos, Freddy Rodriguez, Jesse Amado, Joaquin Torres- Garcia, Latino art, Olga Albizu, Ruben Trajo, Tarsilo da Amaral

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