Tag Archive "tesoros"
Exhibits offer bilingual treasures for the eye–and palate
Post by Andrea Kirsh First, Tesoros at the Art Museum Asiel Timor Dei, Artist/maker unknown (Bolivian), c. 1680. Oil on canvas, 160.5 x 110.5 cm. Museo Nacional De Arte La Paz, Bolivia. (Museum publicity shot) Tesoros, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s survey of the merging of Spanish and indigenous visual traditions in the art of colonial Latin America is big and splashy and expensive (free for museum members but $20 for others, $17 for seniors and students; on Phillyfunguide.org you can find half-price tickets for selected times). Paintings of archangels carrying muskets (the seventeenth-century equivalent of semiautomatics) are only some ... More » »
Weekly update – Tesoros: Drama and magic
Here’s a copy of Roberta’s piece in this week’s Philadelphia Weekly, with some added images. by Roberta Fallon Virgen de Aranzazu, by Cristóbal de Villalpando It’s not often you can use the word splendid, but splendid—brilliant, radiant, showy and grand—is what “Tesoros” is. Six years in the planning and 250 objects strong, “Tesoros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a celebration of the mix of native, African and European cultures that wove themselves together in colonial Latin America. You might think that sounds like a dry history lesson, but it’s not. The show ... More » »
Weekly Update 1 – Holiday the global way
This week’s Weekly is the Holiday Guide issue including my holiday art round-up. Below is the copy with extra pictures. Holiday DiversityArt with a global sauce. As we celebrate Thanksgiving with ritual turkey and pumpkin pie feasting, there are a few exhibitions like the salsas, chutneys and rice dishes that also grace some American tables this time of year. Henry Bermudez. Catalog cover. This is Projects Gallery’s second show this year with a catalog. It’s a great idea for the show, for the gallery and for the artist. Henry Bermudez’s “Fragmented Dream” at Projects Gallery and Xiang Yang’s “Beyond the ... More » »
