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The Mexican Tree of Life, a popular ceramic art form of the 20th-century, will be the subject of an exhibition in development at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, on the campus of UCLA. The show, based largely on an impressive private collection recently donated to the museum, will survey the range of styles and themes represented in the ceramic trees, which gained popularity among collectors especially in the last few decades. The exhibit is slated to open in Fall of 2003. |
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A recent conference entitled “Cultural Change in Sixteenth-Century Mexico,” held outside of Vienna, Austria, was a great success! Scholars from Mexico, the United States, Japan, Argentina, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Holland and Austria exchanged ideas about colonial Mexican visual culture, political life, and social change at a mountaintop monastery in a verdant countryside town called Furth. The event was sponsored by the University of Vienna and the Austrian Latin American Institute. For more, see www.univie.ac.at/meso/conference.htm |
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Just opened! The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art just had its inauguration in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibitions focus on the aesthetic developments in American lands colonized by the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth century. For more information, visit www.spanishcolonial.org/museum.shtml |
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In development! A web resource called Vistas introduces those who are interested to Spanish American Visual Culture, from the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth-century, when Mexico, Peru, and other colonies gained independence from Spain. For more, visit www.smith.edu/vistas/temp_web/index.html |
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