Current Awareness: Latin American Art
Role: Librarian in a large encyclopedic art museum
Task: Current awareness for a new curator who specializes in Latin American art of the 19th and 20th centuries
Dear New Curator,
As part of the museum library’s information services for curators, I have compiled a list of websites with current updates in your field. I hope these resources will be useful to you -- please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Welcome to the Museum!
Sincerely,
Your Art Museum Librarian,
Maren Cornett
News
Exhibitions and Art World Events
Arte Al Día
Arte Al Día reports on news about contemporary Latin American art, but some of the content covers pre-21st-century art. The section on museum exhibitions (under the “Contents” menu) lists current and upcoming exhibitions. The website also has back issues of the Arte Al Día magazine for browsing, and there is an e-Newsletter signup.
LatinAmericanArt
LatinAmericanArt.com is “a cultural platform dedicated to promoting Latin American galleries, artists, museums and events.” The focus is modern and contemporary art. Their news section is not very current, but their events section with information on exhibitions and art fairs is extensive and up to date. You can also sign up for their newsletter.
Art Market & Auctions
Artnet News
Artnet News describes itself as “the world’s first dedicated 24-hour global art market newswire.” News items focus especially on auctions, art prices, and art crime. Searching for “Latin America” or the names of individual countries retrieves relevant results.
Sotheby’s Latin American Art Department
The department’s main page features information on recent and upcoming auctions, including auction preview videos. The page links to catalogues for Sotheby’s upcoming 19-20 November 2015 Latin America: Modern & Contemporary Art sales.
Scholarly Events and Research
ISLAA: Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
ISLAA’s news page provides information on upcoming panel discussions, lectures, and exhibitions on Latin American art in New York City. The focus is on scholarly events for academic art historians and curators. Postings are relatively infrequent but the information is timely.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: Art and Ideas from Latin America
The CPPC website presents news on the collection’s current and upcoming exhibitions, programs, and publications. There are also debates, interviews, and essays on topics relating to Latin American art; much of this content ties in to current exhibitions.
New Publications
Books
Latin American Studies: Art and Visual Studies from University of Texas Press
This is one of the more extensive selections on new publications in Latin American art available from a university press website. It includes recent, current, and upcoming publications.
Artbook / Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.)
This is another useful source for new monographs and exhibition catalogues. Books on Latin American art are listed both on the page for “Fall 2015 Featured Latin-American titles” at http://www.artbook.com/frontlist-featured-latin.html and under “Latin American Art: Forthcoming Titles & New Releases” at http://www.artbook.com/catalog--art--latin-american-art.html
Articles
CLASE: Citas Latinomericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
CLASE, based at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, indexes more than 1,000 Latin American humanities and social sciences journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. It is updated quarterly. CLASE is free to search online and in some cases the full texts of articles are also freely available.
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas: Tables of Contents and Full Text
This journal primarily publishes “essays on visual culture of the viceregal period, particularly the art and architecture of New Spain,” (see reference below) but some essays cover later 19th- and 20th-century topics. Tables of contents and full-text articles are freely accessible online. The journal is published twice a year, and both 2015 issues are already available.
Reference: Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara Mundy. (2005). “Vistas:
Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820.” 
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