For many years the artistic movement in the Dominican Republic was a -best-kept secret. Their growing international contributions to contemporary visual arts have been changing that picture, but may also be characterized by even greater drive, selectivity, and regularity. We could say that of...

Second and final segment of the exhibit organized around the book "Art of Latin America 1981-2000," published in 2002 by the IDB Cultural Center. Written by historian Germán Rubiano Caballero, the book gives an overview of the art in Latin America during the last two decades of the XX century....

The Guaraní have an aesthetic view of Earth. For the Guaraní, the Earth is a beautiful body on which trees are like long hair, the skin is sometimes shining, sparkling, and manifestations of soil erosion are diseases. This is within the conception that we call mythic, but for them it is a very...

Después de su presentación en Washington, D.C., la bienal comenzó el circuito itinerante en junio de 2005, en el Istituto Italo-Latino Americano (IILA) en Roma. Luego viajará a varios países que forman parte de un circuito de más de 13 países incluyendo Rusia, terminando en el XXII...

The Organization of American States (OAS) joined with other Washington D.C. institutions to feature programs dedicated to printmaking during the month of March 2005. The exhibit Art of the Print was organized to welcome participants in the Southern Graphics Council's International Conference...

The Art Museum of the Americas is a unique and singular asset of the Organization of American States. The museum, inaugurated in 1976, houses the most comprehensive twentieth-century art collection from Latin America and the Caribbean on public display in Washington, DC. The OAS collection,...

The exhibition comprises 56 objects that unites Baroque oratórios, folk and popular art, applied arts and works by contemporary artists representing a variety of artistic expressions from the State of Minas Gerais and its capital city, Belo Horizonte, site of the IDB¿s 47th Annual Meeting of...

More than fifty objects made by the Amerindian population as well as painting and sculpture representing contemporary artists drawn from several private and public collections, pay tribute to Guyanese artists and culture. This exhibition joined in the 2006 celebrations of Guyana's 40th year of...

Celebrating the United States Hispanic Heritage Month, the exhibition presented a selection of 40 works from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Art Collection that have been acquired over the last few years, including painting, drawing, sculpture, graphics, and folk art pieces from most...

This exhibition gathers a number of artworks belonging to a diverse group of Latin American embassies and diplomats and their delegations and organizations in Washington, D.C. For a city that boasts such a wealth of artistic institutions on the National Mall, representing art from all corners of...