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POP AMÉRICA

Featuring nearly 100 works of Latinx and Latin-American art, the traveling show POP AMÉRICA—1965–1975—the first exhibition to present a vision of Pop on the American continent as a whole”—is now on view at the Block Museum of Art, just north of Chicago.*

The exhibition is guest curated by Duke University professor Esther Gabara.

POP AMÉRICA—1965–1975

Through December 8.

Block Museum of Art

Northwestern University

40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston.

*Nasher Museum director Sarah Schroth.

Pop América, from top: Rupert GarcíaUnfinished Man, 1968, acrylic on canvas, courtesy of the Rena Bransten Gallery, San Fransisco, photograph by John Janca; Antonio Berni, Mediodia, 1976 , acrylic and collage on canvas, collection of the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; Marta Minujín, Frac-asado , 1975, mixed-media dress on stand and metal crown of thorns, Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection, courtesy of Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York and Buenos Aires; Antonio Caro, Colombia Coca-Cola, 1976, enamel on sheet metal, edition 11/ 25, collection of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, courtesy of Casas Riegner, Bogota; Felipe Ehrenberg, Caja no. 25495, 1968, acrylic on wooden box with marbles, collection of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, courtesy of Reina María de Lourdes Hernández Fuentes; Eduardo Costa, Fashion Fiction I, 1966–1970, 24-karat gold, photograph by Albano Garcia; Eduardo Costa, Fashion Fiction I, Vogue, February 1, 1968, modeled by Marisa Berenson, photograph by Richard Avedon, © the Richard Avedon Foundation; Marisol EscobarMi mamá y yo, 1968, steel and aluminum, collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, © 2018 Estate of Marisol, licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Robert Indiana, Study for Viva HemisFair poster, 1967, collage and graphite on board, collection of the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, San Antonio, courtesy of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, © 2018 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd., licensed by ARS; Rubens GerchmanTropicália ou panis et circencis, 1968, Philips album cover, collection of Marcelo Noah and Marina Bedran, © Rubens Gerchman Institute, Rio de Janeiro, image courtesy of the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, photograph by Peter Paul Geoffrion; Raúl MartínezEl vaquero, circa 1969, acrylic on black-and-white photograph, Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, image courtesy of the Raúl Martínez Estate, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, and Corina Matamoros; Hugo Rivera-ScottPop América, 1968, collage on cardboard, photograph by Jorge Brantmayer. Images courtesy and © the artists, the photographers, the McNay Art Museum, the Nasher Museum, and the Block Museum.

HELEN ESCOBEDO

Helen Escobedo (1943–2010) was a sculptor, painter, installation artist, printmaker, writer, performance artist, lecturer, curator, and museum director. In Mexico City—in her capacity as the director of the Department of Museums and Galleries at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and later as the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno—Escobedo expanded the boundaries of what an art exhibition could be.

Her work as a cultural manager at UNAM is being celebrated at the university through the end of October, and a Spanish-English catalogue—with contributions by Clara Bolívar, Julio García Murillo, Sol Henaro, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Elva Peniche—is available.

EXPANDING ART SPACES—

HELEN ESCOBEDO AT UNAM, 1961–1979

Through October 29.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Museo Univeritario Arte Contemporáneo

Avenida Insurgentes Sur 3000, Mexico City.

From top:

Helen Escobedo and Mathías Goeritz supervise construction at the Centro del Espacio Escultórico en Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, 1978–1979. Fondo Helen Escobedo, Centro de Documentación Arkheia, MUAC–UNAM.

Exhibition spaces in Mexico City designed by Escobedo.

Escobedo on a construction site in Mexico City.

Exhibition spaces in Mexico City designed by Escobedo.