Clementina Suárez (1902–1991) was one of the primary agitators, catalysts and motivators behind the contemporary Honduran and Central American art scene... More

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), in collaboration with the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, presents the exhibition Portadores de sentido—Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, on view at the Museo Amparo from February 9 to July 22, 2019. More

Lima sprawls over an arid landscape—between the ocean and the mountains—full of pre-hispanic remnants forgotten by modernity, that are now reappearing like palimpsests in the fog of a capital city that is characterized by its historic fusion... More

The CPPC has announced the donation of 49 photographic artworks to the Museo Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain... More

Katherine Manthorne makes a case for the Austrian nineteenth-century world traveler Ida Pfeiffer as a proto-feminist. Pfeiffer wrote accounts of her journeys, undertaken beginning when she was 45 years old and had separated from her husband after raising the couple’s sons. Published in her native German, the journals were popular enough to be translated into several languages. More

The CPPC’s 2016 gift to MoMA of modernist works of art from Latin America comprises a microcosm of the history of abstraction. From the Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres-García’s recognition of the roots of abstraction in ancient art to the liberation of painting from the frame by painters such as Rhod Rothfuss, Juan Melé and Raúl Lozza in Argentina, the donation represents a spectrum of the artists and movements concerned with abstraction in the Southern Cone. Watch

One of the questions we are most often asked at the CPPC is about where the collection may be seen. Now you can see the location of our artworks on the interactive map we’ve developed to help you follow the collection as it travels the globe! More