By: Alex Taylor for the New York Obverver"Nexus New York: Latin / American Artists in the Modern Metropolis,” the inaugural exhibition at the recently refurbished El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, takes on a set of artists apart from the familiar high-modernist view of New York. (Imagine Broadway Boogie Woogie scored to the mambo.) That no such show has been attempted before tell us something, of course.
One sees about a dozen big names—the great Mexican muralists of the 1930s, Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros; the singular Frida Kahlo; and Yanquis modernists like Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell—but twice as many unknowns. The best thing about this intensely enjoyable show is its reach into minor figures and archival material, giving a wide introduction to lesser-known chapters in the city’s complicated life as an art capital. http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/welcome-neuva-york
Joaquin Torres-Garcia 's 14th Street 1920
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