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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