"Tradition and Transformation: Colonial New Spain and Contemporary Hispanic America" explores that living thread still weaving throughout the art produced here through more than 30 artworks
GUEST SPEAKERS Luis Tapia, CIDES, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University Today's call for diversity in the United States quite often reduces itself to body counts. René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) confronted the question of respecting diversity in the analysis of social reality in the twentieth century. Luis Tapia’s Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia, now translated into English for the first time, confronts this question not only in terms of mere inclusion and exclusion but in terms of a "motley" social situation, devising methodology to represent its demand. It is time that we in the United States take this text out of its silo and use it to think diversity beyond the inevitably hierarchized "intersection" model. Luis Tapia, an imaginative activist, is the best expert on Zavaleta we have. In his book, The Production of Local Knowledge: History and Po
Famed for blending the Hispanic carving tradition with contemporary commentary, Santa Fe santero Luis Tapia has won the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.