“Hispanic Art in the United States” was the first major museum exhibition to focus on the extraordinary variety and richness of creativity among artists grouped under the admittedly artificial designation “Hispanic.” It featured both academically trained and self-taught artists from the major Latino groups in the country—Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, and Puerto Ricans—as well as descendants of the original Spanish settlers in the Southwest and recent emigres from Latin America. Their work ranged from folk-inspired religious carving to political satire, modernist abstraction, ethnically-inflected neo-surrealism, and what was then called “new imagism,” with a preponderance of incisive, sometimes bitter, deeply expressive figurative paintings and sculptures. Continue Reading Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors