For the purposes of this assignment, I chose to be an art librarian in a large museum, writing a letter to a new curator who specializes in Latin American Art.
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November 9, 2015
Ms. Amelia Jones,
As the Head Librarian here at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, I
would like to congratulate you on becoming our newest curator. Since you
specialize in Latin American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, I thought I
would take the initiative and provide you with a list of resources you might
find helpful. The resources listed below provide a general overview and
highlight current issues in the world of Latin American art, but if you ever
need help on a more specific topic for a future exhibition, please let me know
and I will be happy to assist you.
Sincerely,
Donna Marchessault
ARCHIVES
This archive houses over 150 collections from artists, art critics,
writers, gallery records, artist files, art historians, and curators of Latin
American art. All of their finding aids are available online, and while only a
few of the collections have been digitalized, a majority of them are on
microfilm and are available through interlibrary loan.
Supported by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at
the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, this is an ongoing project to create
a digital archive to address the lack of primary sources available on Latin
American art. Currently the archive houses almost 7,000 digital records
from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, and Latino USA and covers such topics as artistic movements and
writings by artists, critics, and curators. The archive is completely open
to the public.
ARTIST AND GALLERY LISTINGS
Art-Collecting.com is an online resource that provides gallery
guides and listings of art services, museums, and non-profit art organizations
so as to showcase information on the collection, buying, and selling of visual
art. They have over 4000 gallery guides with a special section on Latin
American art galleries. It includes galleries from Argentina, Bolivia,
Peru, Mexico, and Venezuela, to name a few. Additionally, they provide
resources in the form of links to a variety of art fairs, articles, books,
blogs, and magazines on Latin American art.
This site is committed to promoting Latin
American art through the listing of artists, galleries, museums,
auction houses, and exhibitions. They have over 6,000 artists on their site and
provide a brief biography on each as well as images of all their know works and
current exhibitions. Their lists of galleries and museums total almost 13,000
and are located all over the globe.
BLOGS AND
COLLABORATIVE WEBSITES
Artstor, a nonprofit with a mission to use digital images and media to
enhance scholarship and education, runs a blog in order to highlight new
additions to their services. While this blog deals with fine art in general,
one can search the blog by category, in this case Latin American art, to find a
virtual treasure trove of information.
CPPC is a foundation that was founded in the 1970s that hopes to nurture
an international dialogue about Latin American art and ideas. They highlight
various exhibitions and publications, while providing grants for research and
artist production. Additionally, the site is specifically designed to create a
live online community for discussion and reflection on Latin American art. To
this end, they host live debates. The two most recent debates were: "Does
the Public have a Right to Culture?" and "The Tropical: Resistance or
Cultural Tourism?"
PUBLICATIONS
Arte al Día is a bilingual quarterly magazine that features profiles on
current artists, reviews of current exhibitions on Latin American art
worldwide, and interviews from both curators and collectors of Latin American
art. They are currently on issue 149, and their website has digital copies of
the magazine since their July 2001 edition. Also on their website are a current
news blog and videos of some of the exhibitions featured in their
articles.
Universes in Universe, or UiU, proclaims itself to be one of the oldest
and most well-known art websites in the world.
UiU was developed by Gerhard Haupt, a German curator and art critic, and
focuses on bringing attention to art from Latin American, Asia and Africa. They
publish reviews on current exhibitions from around the world, an online magazine,
and guides to the 'art world' for various international cities.
INDEXES AND
DATABASES
HAPI is an index of scholarly journals from Latin American and the
Caribbean dealing with a variety of issues including the arts and humanities.
They have over 380 current journals and access to over 675 out of print
journals dating back to the 1970s. While this is a paid service, they do offer
a free trial.
Redalyc, which stands for Red de Revistas Científicas de América
Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal or the Network of Scientific Journals of
Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal is an open access journal
and article database with access to over 100 journals on the Arts and
Humanities.
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