Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Art and Ideas from Latin America
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Repoliticizing Modernity: Military Spectacles in Venezuela

Lisa Blackmore

Excerpted from her book Spectacular Modernity, Lisa Blackmore’s statement posits that the political, social, and cultural forces that converged to create Venezuela’s “modern spirit” in the mid-20th century unfolded as a spectacle, revealing the spaces, practices, and aspects of life comprising the combined aesthetic and political agenda of its power relations. More

The Cultural Activist as Collector

In this article, originally published in Revista Goya, the journalist and researcher Estrella de Diego examines the typology of the collector by drawing on literature, anthropology, and even psychoanalysis. She concludes that more than a collector, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros is a cultural agitator. More

Dulce Gómez talks about her works

"For me, painting is a way of creating a space for contemplation, but it’s also a way of finding and removing those internal dams, to better see the moment that is happening." More

Interview with Luis Ospina

In this interview, the artist Ángela Bonadies talks with Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina about "pornomiseria," a term he coined, as a resource that some filmmakers practice with "a mix of committed exoticism and adventurous tourism" to speculate on and exploit poverty to attract audiences. More

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