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6:00pm – 7:00pm

Lecture

“Emptiness Is Fullness”: Latino Artists and US Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1960s

Latin American Leventritt Lecture Series

Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Chon Noriega, director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Considering the participation of Latino artists in the American avant-garde, this lecture will focus on the work of Raphael Montañez Ortiz from 1957 to 1968. In the late 1950s Ortiz was active in the international Destructivist movement, and in 1969 he cofounded El Museo del Barrio (New York), the first Latino art museum in the United States.

Presented as part of the collaboration between the Harvard Art Museum and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to bring scholarship in Latin American art to the Harvard and surrounding communities.

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Free admission. Open to the public.

For more information, please contact Nika Trufanova at 617-495-4544 or veronika_trufanova@harvard.edu.

This lecture was made possible by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund. The fund was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.