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Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler Agustín Lazo association For latin american art alaa THE ALAA TRIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler Agustín Lazo: The Ashes Remain The African Presence in Mexico, from Yanga to the Present Natural and Supernatural: Andean Textiles and Material Culture NEW ART NEW BOOKS RECENT ARTICLES MEMBER NEWS newsletter VolUme 21 no. 02 october 2009 Khristaan Villela / president [email protected] PO Box 23872 Santa Fe, NM 87502 MarGaret Jackson / vice president [email protected] 2630 Highland Avenue Santa Monica CA 90405. 305.336.4388 Sara TAYlor / secretary-treasurer [email protected] Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art 2000B South Club Drive Landover, Maryland 20785 Dana Leibsohn / website manager [email protected] Art Department Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 413.585.3137 MAYA S. StanField-MAZZI / listserve manager [email protected] School of Art and Art History College of Fine Arts University of Florida 123 Fine Arts Building C PO Box 115801 Gainesville, FL 32611-5801 352.392.0201 Constance CorteZ / newsletter editor [email protected] School of Art, Box 42081 Lubbock, Texas 79409 806.742.3825 x233 alberto herrera, Frank TierneY / newsletter designer [email protected] Texas Tech University School of Art, Box 42081 Lubbock, Texas 79409 806.742.3825 AboUT the Association The Association for Latin American Art is a non-for-profit (5013c) institution intended to sup- port the discussion, teaching, research and exhibition of Latin American art. As an affiliated society of the College Art Association, the annual meeting of alaa is held in conjunction with the caa con- ference. General inquires, comments, and suggestions regarding the association may addressed to the President, Khristaan Villela, College of Santa Fe, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe NM 87505. His email address is: [email protected]. MembershiP Should you have any questions regarding your membership, or if you would like to submit a change of address, please contact Sara Taylor, the Secretary of the Association. Her address is: The Center for Ad- vanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2000B South Club Drive, Landover Maryland, 20785. Her email address is: [email protected]. Newsletter The Association for Latin American Art Newsletter is published semi-annually (spring and autumn). The next deadline is 1 MARCH 2010, for publication 1 APRIL. Information must be submitted in the appropriate form, and submissions may be edited for length and style. Inquiries and materials may be sent to the Newsletter Editor, Constance Cortez, Texas Tech University, at [email protected] or call: 806.742.3825 x233. Website For information regarding the Association’s website ( http://www.smith.edu/alaa), please contact Dana Leibsohn, Website Manager for the Association of Latin American Art, Art Department , Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 . tel.: 413.585.3137. Her email address is: [email protected] CAA Chicago (2010) Questions regarding upcoming ALAA sessions at the College Art Association annual meetings may be addressed to Margaret Jackson, Vice President, the Association for Latin American Art, 2630 Highland Avenue,Santa Monica, California, 90405. Her email is: [email protected]. The alaa newsletter is typeset in Franklin Gothic and Rayuela, a typeface designed by Argentinian- born typographer Alejandro Lo Celso. His type designs may be seen at www.pampatype.com. newsletter volume 21 no. 02 alaa october 2009 alaa at chicago (caa 2010) 02 alaa book award (2009) 03 ALAA’s triennial 04 exhibitions 05 new art by alaa members 17 Finding Frida, reviewed by james oles 19 new books 20 other publications 29 dissertations begun | completed 32 honors & achievements 33 university news 34 upcoming lectures 36 symposia & conferences 37 fellowships | grants | residencies 39 publication opportunities 40 02 {no. {no. alaa|volume 21 | CAA 2010 (CHICAGO) | ALAA’s Annual Business Meeting ALAA will be holding its annual business meeting on Friday, February 12 between 7:30 and 9:00 am The location will be in Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, of the Hyatt Regency. Breakfast beverages and food will be served. ALAA’S EMERGING SCHOLARS SESSION AT THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE Friday, February 12, 12:30 – 2:00 pm. Co-chaired by Khristaan Villela and Patricia Sarro, the session will feature the following speakers and topics: Orlando Amado Hernandez Ying, ph.d. (Oct. 2009), The Graduate Center, cuny. Forbidden Angels in the Cathedral of Mexico City. George F. Flaherty Fuentes, ph.d. candidate, UC Santa Barbara. 'Listening to shadows with a stephoscope': Urban Redevelopment and the Problem of Transparency at Tlatelolco. Abigail McEwen, ph.d. candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, nyu "Arts Magazines and the Cosmopolitan Vision of Cuban Modernism, 1952 – 1961." 02 | 03 association for latin american art | ALAA 2009 BOOK AWARD | ALAA 2009 Book Award The Association for Latin American Art Book award was established in 2001 and is funded by the Arvey Foundation. ComPetition for the Association for Latin American Art BooK AWarD The Association of Latin American Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association, announces its Tenth Annual Book Award for the best scholarly book published on the art of Latin America from the Pre-Columbian era to the present. The award is generously funded by the Arvey Foundation and consists of a citation and a $1000 honorarium. We will present the award at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Chicago in February 2010. The name of the recipient will appear in the newsletters of both the alaa and the caa. For the February 2010 Award, we will evaluate books on Latin American Art from Pre-Columbian to the present that meet the following criteria: • Publication date between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009. • Books may be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. • Books may have one or more authors. • Multi-authored exhibition catalogues with a substantive text that advances art historical knowledge also can be considered. • Edited volumes/anthologies of individual articles that are consistent in terms of both theme and quality will also be considered. The books will be evaluated by a three-person committee of accomplished art historians, each with expertise in a wide geographical and temporal range. Publishers and authors must contact Dr. Virginia Fields by October 1, 2009 to verify whether a prospective entry is eligible for the competition according to the above criteria. Please include the following information: Title, author(s) and a general description of subject. If the book appears eligible, she will provide mailing addresses for all three committee members. Copies of books are to be sent directly to each, and can be sent at any time over the summer but must be received no later than November 15, 2009. Questions may be addressed to: DR. VIRGINIA M. FIELDS Senior Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California, 90036 [email protected] Phone: 323.857.6019 Fax: 323-857-4791 02 {no. {no. alaa|volume 21 | ALAA'S TRIENNIAL | Second Triennial Conference of the Association for Latin American Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art “Origins of State/Origins of Identity” The second Triennial Conference of the Association for Latin American Art will be held on November 13th and 14th, 2010 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and coincides with LACMA’S exhibition, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks from Ancient Mexico. The exhibi- tion is co-organized by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, LACMA, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The exhibition, centered on the concept of “dis- covery,” will reveal how Olmec art and archaeology first came to public attention in the mid-19th century with the discovery of the first great portrait head. Subsequent galleries focus on how archaeological investigations have further defined the nature of art and soci- ety in Olman by presenting groupings of monuments and portable objects that illustrate various significant themes along with brief presentations on the most important heartland cities. Responding to the idea of discovery, the conference will be divided into three panels reflect- ing the main areas of research undertaken by the association’s members. The conference proposes not only to promote new research within each specialization, but also to initiate an interdisciplinary discourse that will foreground current developments within the field of Latin American Studies. Proposals for short (25 minute) papers will be considered in the following three areas: Pre-Columbian art and architecture, viceregal and colonial art and architecture, and modern and contemporary art and architecture (Latin American and Latina/o). The conference will be united through the exploration of the theme “Origins of State and Origins of Identity” which will focus on issues of how art is used in the generation of state and/or personal identity within a larger culture. Questions which might be addressed, include: • Exhibit Program Soledad Guerra (202) 623-1213 • Inter-American Concert, Lecture and Film Series Anne Vena (202) 623-3558 • Cultural Development Program Elba Agusti (202) 623-1239 • Photographs of the exhibit, available upon request. Please call 202 623 1213. • For guided tours of ten or more (in English and Spanish) and for additional information about the idb Cultural Center and its programs, please call (202) 623-3774. To be considered, participants must be members of the Association for Latin American Art. Please submit a CV as well as an abstract of approximately 500 words by May 1, 2010 via e-mail to both Virginia Fields and Constance Cortez: virginia fields: [email protected] constance cortez: [email protected] 04 | 05 association for latin american art Osvaldo Ramírez Castillo (Salvadorean; b. March 16, 1978, Usulutan, El Salvador -) La Raza Crossing the Sea of Cortez, 2008, drawing, mixed media, 24 × 26 inches Photo: courtesy of the artist.
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