Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Art and Ideas from Latin America

Hélio Oiticica's Painting 9

Painting 9 is a major work by artist Hélio Oiticica. It was made in 1959, at a pivotal moment for a new and quintessentially Brazilian form of modernism... More

Cisneros Institute Grants and Fellowships Awardees

News

The Cisneros Institute has announced the awardees of its inaugural Fellowships and Grants Program. With the goal of stimulating diverse methodologies to study art, the Fellowships and Grants Program supports new research on the art of Latin America produced by scholars, curators, and artists. More

Statements

Repoliticizing Modernity: Military Spectacles in Venezuela

Lisa Blackmore

Excerpted from her book Spectacular Modernity, Lisa Blackmore’s statement posits that the political, social, and cultural forces that converged to create Venezuela’s “modern spirit” in the mid-20th century unfolded as a spectacle, revealing the spaces, practices, and aspects of life comprising the combined aesthetic and political agenda of its power relations. More

Hércules Barsotti's Ink Drawings

Twelve ink drawings by Hércules Barsotti explore a radical geometry and a systematic mode of working that, already in 1960, point to a new mode of working for the Brazilian artist... More

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