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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