New York s Museo del Barrio has announced Havana-born installation and performance artist Carlos Martiel as the first winner of the newly established Maestro Dobel Latino Art Prize.
Maestro Dobel Tequila in partnership with El Museo del Barrio proudly announce Carlos Martiel as the recipient of the inaugural Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize.
Today, Latinx archives are in a rapid process of transformation. Important questions arise from the field’s inherent multiple identities, its relation to Latin American art, and the growing interest in archival collections. On this panel, specialists will discuss how they approach the complexities of archiving Latinx art and history. ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and founding Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A globally renowned authority on modern and contemporary Latin American art, Ramírez has published extensively and curated numerous exhibitions, including the award-winning Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America (2004, with Héctor Olea); Beatriz González: A Retrospective (with Tobias Ostrander, 2019); Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color (2006); Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America (2015); HOME, So Different, So A