Gabriel Pérez provided an overview of the development of cultural art institutions in Nicaragua, highlighting their enterprise to depoliticize artistic practices and preserve dominant structures.
This critical art history is divided into two parts: first, a historical overview following the development of art institutions from the last 40 years; and second, an examination of grassroots efforts in critical art management, emphasizing self-governance, experimentation, feminist education, and political commitment.
In recent decades, an explosion of critical interventions from multiple fields has emphasized the return to the archive as one of the key axes from which central problems of the culture and history of the Americas are thought about, read, and discussed. However, studies on critics and artistic practices have, to different extents, always been anchored in and in conversation with the archive.
This set of presentations sought to reflect on the way in which Latin American studies have positioned themselves...
Lorenzo Meyer teaches in the International Studies Department at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, where he also directed the U.S.-Mexican Studies Program. He will be teaching a seminar at CLAS from late February to late March entitled "The U.S. and Mexico: Conflicting Agendas. A View of the Present from an Historical Perspective." Prof. Meyer is the author of eleven books on contemporary Mexico and U.S.-Mexico issues.
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