Detective de Coro Flash!: 2009

Until January 2010
Arte ≠ Vida surveys, for the first time, the vast range of performative actions created over the last four decades by Latinos working in the United States, as well as artists working in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. The exhibition was acclaimed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times: "This ethereal exhibition . . . represents a quantum leap in knowledge about Conceptual or nonobjective art in Latin America . . . it delivers on all counts." While the exhibition included over 100 artists, and established a chronology of key works by decades, the lavishly-illustrated, scholarly, bilingual resource publication allows emerging voices to address each region in depth. Arte ≠Vida’s catalogue has been praised by John Perreault in Artopia: “Just as Alexandra Munroe's book Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky filled in the Japanese performative-art gap, Arte ≠ Vida will do the same for Latin American art.. . I advise you to order it now.” This exhibition was a recipient of a 2006 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award and is currently traveling on an international tour through Spring 2011.

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Until Sunday, January 9, 2011

A major special exhibition that will offer for the first time a dramatic exploration of the vital role that Latinos and Spanish-speaking countries have played from 1624 through World War II in making New York the most culturally vibrant city in the world. the project will tell the little-known story of how the Spanish-speaking world has played a key role in the City’s culture and prosperity. The project will also advance understanding of New York City’s ongoing Latinization, from having a tiny Hispanic community after the Revolution to the growth of a community that today makes up one-third of the city’s population. Using documents, paintings, prints, decorative arts, printed books, and artifacts from the collections of the New-York Historical Society—and augmented by loans from other distinguished institutions and archives—the exhibition will draw upon new research of the last three decades conducted here and abroad to uncover the previously hidden history of New York’s Spanish-speaking peoples.

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