Editor’s Letter – Museums
Editor’s Letter Museums. They are the destination of school field trips, a place to explore your own culture and a great place to run around and explore. They are exciting or boring, a collection of objects or a powerful...
Category: Museums
Art and Public
As Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums, I seek to expand the presence of artists from across the world in our collection.
A View of Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks, once the Georgetown home of Robert and Mildred Bliss, is Harvard’s multi-varied Humanities Center in the heart of Washington DC.
“Ahí están los del MoMA”
Curatorial practices have shaped the way we understand modern architecture. Inserted in the spaces of museums, it becomes part of cultural work
A New Future for Ancient American Art in Today’s Museums
When I was a graduate student at Harvard studying the ancient Americas, I became acutely aware of how the campus’s museums were organized.
The Odalisque in Red Pants
The location, characters and what was about to happen are worthy of a thriller: in a room in the luxurious Hotel Loews in Miami, two supposed art dealers, Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzmán and María Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, waited for some potential art buyers for something huge they had been offering for a while.
Returning Our History: Repatriation of Peruvian Cultural Patrimony
It was August 2017 and I had just become the General Director in Defense of Cultural Patrimony in the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. An e-mail from a special Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent specialized in crimes against cultural patrimony suddenly came across my desk.
How Museums Shape (Post)Colonial Identities in Ecuador and Beyond
As a study abroad student in Quito, Ecuador, about ten years ago, I wandered through the living spaces of Eduardo Kingman (1913-1997), an influential modernist painter.
Contested Patrimonio: The Politics of Repatriation in Mexico
In February 2022, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador revealed the letter he sent two years earlier to Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, requesting the return of the Penacho de Moctezuma…
Renovation in Continuous Movement: Santa Clara and Colonial Museums in Bogotá
With my eyes reflecting my deep sense of amazement, I wandered the streets of Rome…
Kaluz Museum
The history of Museo Kaluz is not that different from that of many museums that have their origin in private collections formed over the years by a collector or a family.
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
Category: "Museums" Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende Fifty Years of Art, Solidarity and...
Museo Minca
The most common museum visits include seeing invaluable objects or an informational tour. What marked the difference in our museum was the ability to encounter two people with different perspectives of the same reality.
Preserving African and Afro-Brazilian Memory
In Brazil, little has been done to preserve the memory of the conflicts and daily life of the Afro-Brazilian population—its intangible heritage. Few museums, galleries, archives and documentation centers exist, and those that do are in poor condition.
A Review of Cuban Privilege: the Making of Immigrant Inequality in America by Susan Eckstein
If anyone had any doubts that Cubans were treated exceptionally well by the United States immigration and welfare authorities, relative to other immigrant groups and even relative to …
A Review of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle
James Loxton’s Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and Counterrevolutionary Struggle makes very important, original contributions to the study of…
A Review of Recentralisation in Colombia
During the last few decades, decentralization processes—the transference of power, resources and responsibilities from national to subnational governments—
A Review of Patchwork Freedoms
Adriana Chira’s Patchwork Freedoms is a refreshening contribution to the historiography of the African Diaspora in Latin America offering both genuinely new data and new interpretations.
A Review of Black Legend
A few years ago, I was in the early phases of developing a new Black history course. I spent months contemplating the three pillars I wanted to prioritize for the class: the historical trends and transformations to cover…
