Join us on Tuesday, May 24 from 1-2:15pm (EST) for the first public conversation of the 2022 Curatorial Leadership Summit chaired by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

This first conversation titled “Latin American, Latina/o, and/or Latinx? Navigating Contested Labels” aims to lay out the general historical and theoretical foundation for more specific discussions focused on curatorial and institutional practices.

The program will convene Arlene Dávila, Professor and Founding Director of The Latinx Project at New York University; Gerardo Mosquera, Independent Curator & Critic; Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, University of Houston; and Gilbert Vicario, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum in discussion with and moderated by Mari Carmen Ramirez.

This conversation will revolve around the publication of Latinx Art: Artists, Markets and Politics (Duke U Press). The author, NYU Professor and founding director of The Latinx Project , Arlene Dávila will present her book and main findings, and will converse with experienced gallery owners, artists and stakeholders who have worked to promote Latinx artists in the contemporary art world. The discussion will explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists and why centering these artists is so central for diversifying the art world.

Participants include: María Elena Ortiz, Karen Vidangos, Nicole Calderón, and Arlene Dávila.

María Elena Ortiz is Curator of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she is
spearheading the Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). At PAMM, Ortiz has organized several projects including Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Art Collection (2020); The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art (2019); Latinx Art Sessions (2019); william cordova: now’s the time (2018); Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: A Universe of Fragile Mirrors (2016); Ulla von Brandenburg: It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon (2017); Firelei Báez: Bloodlines (2015); and Carlos Motta: Histories for the Future.

Her writing has been published globally. A recipient of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean, Ortiz’s curatorial practice is informed by the connections of Latinx, Latin American, and Black communities in the US and the Caribbean.

Karen Vidangos, known as “Latina in Museums” online, is a digital strategist and Latinx art advocate. Founder of the first nationwide digital database exclusively for U.S. Latinx artists, Latinx Art Collective, Karen uses social media to highlight the Latinx community in the art world. She was recently appointed as the lead social media strategist for the Smitshonian’s new Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative, convening national conversations about race and community.

Nicole Calderón is the co-founder of the art gallery Calderón Ruiz in New York and founder of the art agency AVFTF. Prior to assuming her role at Calderón Ruiz and AVFTF, Calderón accumulated nearly two decades of experience in the art market and directed two major blue chip galleries in New York City– she was Director at Timothy Taylor where she presented Ilaciones in 2019 a group exhibition highlighting Latin American artists such as Joiri Minaya, Luis Flores, and the late Jorge Eielson. Prior to that she was Managing Director at Tina Kim Gallery where she directed gallery projects and exhibition programming in the US and internationally. Calderón graduated with a double BA in Studio Arts and History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Kent State University where she studied under the artists Darice Polo and Gianna Commito. She currently resides in New York City.

Arlene Dávila is a Professor at NYU, and a recognized public intellectual focusing on questions of cultural equity, Latinx and critical race studies. She is the author of six books focusing on Latinx cultural politics spanning the media, museums and contemporary art markets. Her latest book: Latinx Art: Artists, Markets and Politics, (Duke Press 2020) was selected as one of the best art books of 2020 by the New York Times and ARTnews, and a favorite book by Smithsonian scholars and Artnet News. She is also the founding director of The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary space hosting artists and curatorial projects at NYU.

Join guest curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill in conversation with Arlene Dávila and Mari Carmen Ramírez
Moderated by Gilbert Vicario October 7, 2021 AT 5:30 PM EST
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Join Arlene Dávila, Professor of Anthropology at New York University (NYU), and the founding director of the Latinx Project at NYU, for this year’s annual Mellon Lecture.

Dávila states, “In this talk I draw from my twenty year old history as a reluctant anthropologist and my multiple publications on the cultural politics of Latinidad to argue that anthropology has much to learn from Latinx and ethnic studies to remain relevant in the twentieth first century. Centering these fields can lead the discipline to get over its fetishized concern with “peoples and cultures” and move us to more fully engage with racism in the discipline, the US academy and society at large.”

Dávila will also weave examples from her work with The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary center at NYU, to highlight the kind of praxis, digital humanities, and arts and culture based initiates that are so necessary for empowerment in American universities beyond the bounds of any single discipline.

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The Phillips Collection is pleased to host Arlene Dávila as the first speaker in our Duncan Phillips Lecture series of 2021. Dávila will be in conversation with Vesela Sretenović, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, around her book Latinx Art: Artist, Markets, and Politics and the role Latinx artist have in the art world today.

Arlene Dávila is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University, and a recognized public intellectual focusing on questions of cultural equity and Latinx and critical race studies. She is the author of six books focusing on Latinx cultural politics spanning the media, urban politics, museums, and contemporary art markets. Her latest book Latinx Art: Artists, Markets and Politics (Duke Press 2020) was selected as one of the best art books of 2020 by the New York Times and ARTnews, and a favorite book by Smithsonian scholars and Artnet News. She is also the founding director of The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary space focusing on Latinx art and culture and hosting artists and curatorial projects at NYU. 

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LatchKey Gallery is proud to present: Beverly Acha, CJ Chueca, Edra Soto, Ivelisse Jiménez, Marisol Martinez, Victoria Martinez in conversation with Arlene Davila.

April 29th, 2021 | 7PM | via ZOOM

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New York University professor and director of the Latinx Project Arlene Dávila and New York-based artists Alicia Grullón and Shellyne Rodriguez will explore the theme of labor through a conversation about their cultural work. The speakers will examine intersecting themes of equity, race, class, and creativity, considering the role of art in exploring visibility and value of work and workers. This conversation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Arlene Dávila.

This program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art and is aimed at providing frameworks for thinking about a forthcoming exhibition about labor at the Mead Art Museum.

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For accessibility concerns please contact Danielle at damodeo13@amherst.edu or 413-542-5651.

Join noted scholar Arlene Dávila, NYU Professor and author of the acclaimed Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke University Press, 2020) in a discussion about the strategies Latinx artists have pursued to create platforms for their work. Artists Glendalys Medina, Mary Valverde, and Sarah Zapata from the Latinx Abstract exhibition will join Dávila in the discussion.

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Join the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies for a conversation on Latinx Art with Arlene Dávila, author of the recent book Latinx Art: Artists, Markets and Politics. Arlene Dávila is a recognized public intellectual focusing on questions of cultural equity and a leader in the field of Latinx and critical race studies. She is the author of six books focusing on Latinx cultural politics spanning the media, urban politics, museums, and contemporary art markets, all characterized by a rigorous global and political economic perspective. A Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University, she is also the founding director of the Latinx Project.

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Hosted by NYU Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by The Latinx Project, join Ronny Quevedo, Elia Alba, Juana Valdez, and Marcela Guerrero for a roundtable and conversation moderated by Karen Mary Davalos.

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Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with a conversation that digs deep and unpacks the deep interconnections between ethnic identity, marketing, and politics in America. Anthropologists Dr. Arlene Dávila and Dr. Marcel Rosa-Salas will explore the history and cultural significance of the Hispanic marketing business, and its ongoing role in shaping and selling popular perceptions of Latinx people in the United States.

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This conversation between Arlene Davila and Adriana Zavala explores the arguments in Davila's most recent book, Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke, 2020). Davila, founding director of The Latinx Project at NYU, draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look at the global contemporary art market, Davila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. 

This conversation is the second of three events in a yearlong series at the Whitney focused on new scholarship about Latinx art and culture.

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Please join Intellectual Publics on the evening of September 21st for a conversation between author Arlene Davila and sociologist of culture Patricia Banks. They will discuss race and contemporary art markets in relationship to their work. 

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Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics, Arlene Dávila in conversation with Elizabeth Ferrer

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This conversation between Arlene Davila and Elizabeth Ferrer explores the arguments in Davila's most recent book, Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke, 2020). Davila, founding director of The Latinx Project at NYU, draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look at the global contemporary art market, Davila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. This conversation draws on Ferrer's research and Davila and Ferrer's decades-long engagements with Latinx art and artists in New York City and beyond.

Arlene Dávila is a recognized scholar, writer and public intellectual focusing on questions of cultural equity and a leader in the field of Latinx and critical race studies. She is the author of six books focusing on Latinx cultural politics spanning the media, urban politics, museums and contemporary art markets, all characterized by a rigorous global and political economic perspective. A Professor of Anthropology and American Studies, she is also the founding director of The Latinx Project. @arlenedavila1

Elizabeth Ferrer is Chief Curator at BRIC, a multi-disciplinary arts organization in Brooklyn, as well as a scholar of Latinx and Mexican photography.  At BRIC, she founded the BRIC Biennial and has curated major solo shows for such prominent Latinx artists as Juan Sánchez and Miguel Luciano, among numerous other projects.  Exhibitions Elizabeth has curated have appeared at the Smithsonian Institution, Notre Dame University, El Museo del Barrio, the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, and at the Americas Society, where she was Gallery Director for several years. She is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (Aperture, NY), named a New York Times notable book of the year, as well as of exhibition catalogues published in the United States and Mexico. Most recently, she has authored Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History, to be published by the University of Washington Press in November 2020.  Ferrer, who studied art history at Wellesley College and Columbia University, is originally from Los Angeles, and is based in Brooklyn, New York, and in Western Massachusetts.   

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“The art market is one of the attention-getting elements of the art world, but a new book focuses on a part of the market that is often invisible. Latinx Art: Artists/Markets/Politics by Arlene Dávila—an anthropology professor at New York University and the founder of the school’s Latinx Project—considers why Latinx art continues to be undervalued and how racism figures in the market around it. In her book, published by Duke University Press, Dávila writes about what is meant by the term “Latinx art,” how it is distinct from Latin American art (and why the coupling of the two can be problematic), and how the exhibiting of art in general feeds into the creation a market—or a lack of one. As she writes, “The invisibility of Latinx artists is everyone’s concern.” ARTnews spoke with Dávila to learn more about the book.”

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