The fascination many of us feel for modern traditions of indigenous inspired Latin American art is due to the powerful interplay of personal biographies, pre- and post-colonial histories, modern desires and temptations, religious traditions and the tragedy and hope of the human condition. That’s quite a lot …. and the richness of this artistic conversation gets expressed in an exuberant display of colors, artifacts, stories and magic.

Guadalupe Maravilla’s exhibit entitled Tierra Blanca Joven, is on view at the Brooklyn Museum until September 18, 2022, and it adds yet another layer of history and personality to the ever growing archive of works of this genre on public display.

On March 25, 2022 an exhibit of the work of David Wojnarowicz opened at the P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City. This installation takes a unique approach to his art, through the lens of his relationship with a special friend in Paris. The exhibit is entitled David Wojnarowicz, Correspondence with Jean Pierre Delage, 1979-1982. It includes letters, postcards, photographs and other ephemera that trace the intimate relationship between two young creative minds on opposite sides of the Atlantic and it gives us a new insight into the mind of Wojnarowicz as he refined his own art and struggled with the exigencies of everyday life.