Robb Report

Agnes Studio Talks Latin American Design With Art Historian Ana Elena Mallet

Looking to reclaim their country’s rich creative heritage, the duo spent two years researching pre-Columbian craftsmanship to inform their furniture from a perspective that asks what a modern ...
Curbed

MoMA’s ‘Crafting Modernity’ Tries to Cover Most of a Continent

I can count on one hand the number of shows devoted to Latin American design at the Museum of Modern Art over the past 34 years (a.k.a. my adult life). Of these, the most significant was “Latin ...
The New York Times

When Latin America Became the Seat of Modernity

A new MoMA exhibition looks at design from six countries, spanning 1940 to 1980. Some beautiful chairs tell the tale. A visitor looks at “Malitte Lounge Furniture” by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta ...
archpaper

In Tribeca, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art by Overhead Architecture takes cues from Lina Bo Bardi and Project Cybersyn

It wasn’t a simple task converting the storefront and subterranean levels at 142 Franklin Street in Tribeca—a pre-war, seven-story, brick-and-mortar loft building—into a functional, beautiful art ...
The New York Times

Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories

Our critic says “Chosen Memories” at MoMA is one of the most stirring recent collection shows. The theme of change and instability is a binding thread. By Holland Cotter The land of the brave and home ...
Hyperallergic

When Latin American Art Took a “Decolonial Turn”

Thomaz Farkas, “Populares sobre cobertura do palácio do Congresso Nacional no dia da inauguração de Brasília, Distrito Federal, 1960” (“People on the esplanade of the National Congress on inauguration ...