Female Piety and Visual Culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic World Time: 02/05/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: Hoover, Mezzanine Level Chair: Cristina C. González, Oklahoma State University Garments of the Passion: Nuns’ Habits and Sacred Authority in Colonial Lima Tanya J. Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Queen of the Convent: Exemplars of […]

Emerging Scholars of Latin American Art Association for Latin American Art sponsored session Time: 02/05/2016, 5:30 PM—7:00 PM Location: Washington 1, Exhibition Level Chair: Maya S. Stanfield-Mazzi, University of Florida Our Lady of Copacabana in Early Colonial Lima: Investigating an Indigenous Confraternity’s Statue of the Virgin Ximena Alexandra Gomez, University of Michigan Looking for the “Modern […]

Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800 American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies Time: 02/06/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM Location: Virginia Suite, Lobby Level Chair: Ilenia Colón Mendoza, School of Visual Arts & Design, University of Central Florida More than Wood: Sculpture and the Inquisition in Early Seventeenth-Century New Spain Brett Lazer, New York […]

Asian Latino Art and Visual Cultures: Current Scholarship and Institutional Practices Time: 02/06/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM Location: Washington 5, Exhibition Level Diasporic Asian Art Network Chair: Alexandra Chang, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU Chinese Export Painting and the Visual Cultures of Racial Labor Ana Paulina Lee, Columbia University On Circles and Circuits: An exhibition on Chinese Caribbean […]

Visual Representations of Plant Knowledge in Pre-Columbian, Early Colonial, and Early Modern European Art Time: 02/06/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level Chair: Helen Ellis, Getty Research Institute Transforming a Common Grass into Corn: A Scientific Achievement Recorded in Aztec Art Helen Ellis, Getty Research Institute The Imagery of Two Sacred Plants […]

From: molaa.org Exhibition: THE MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART (MOLAA) AT TWENTY: 1996-2016 Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and recent Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), MOLAA presents its largest comprehensive Permanent Collection exhibition to date. Learn about the Museum’s founding and be inspired by MOLAA’s Modern and Contemporary Latin American art collection. MOLAA […]

From: CAA News... 105th Annual Conference of the College Art Association New York, 15–18 February 2017 Proposals due by 18 April 2016 For the CAA 105th Annual Conference, CAA will change the format of the conference as we look to liven up the experience for all our members.  The changes highlighted below are the result of a […]

Folks, I am pasting below the text from the flyer for an upcoming tour of the Sierra Gorda missions and art and architecture of Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. The tour is sponsored by a small but influential non-profit based in Tecate, Baja California called Corredor Histórico/CAREM, A.C. (http://www.carem.org/).  I have been working with this organization […]

Kathryn C. Buhler Lecture:
Penny Morrill, adjunct professor, George Mason University
For the past 85 years, in workshops all over the Mexican city of Taxco, rosewood, tortoise, obsidian, and amethyst quartz have been combined with silver to create jewelry and decorative objects inspired by pre-Columbian art and village crafts. In 1931, William Spratling founded Las Delicias, where hundreds of maestros and silversmiths were trained, many of whom went on to establish their own workshops. Examine the unprecedented variety of form and design that has brought the world to Taxco.

“Art at Large: Public and Monumental Arts in the Americas” Hosted by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, the conference will be held the weekend of March 18–20, 2016 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate […]