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September 17, 2025

Lucy Raven tracks the exploitation of land and life through an experimental approach to filmmaking that critically reflects on the ideologies and industries that transform and deform the United States.

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Tim Hawkinson in "Time"

September 17, 2003

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Which Latin America?
Raúl de Nieves is an American Artist
New York Close Up
Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home
New York Close Up
Photographing Mexico
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Art in the Twenty-First Century
Natalia Almada in "Mexico City"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Alejandro Almanza Pereda's Obstacle Course
New York Close Up
Bridging Borders
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Elle Pérez Works Between the Frame
New York Close Up
Alfredo Jaar in "Protest"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Abraham Cruzvillegas in "Legacy"
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Material / Immaterial
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Here I Am
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Which Latin America?

Never stop questioning the notion of “Latin American Art” as a construct of the Western art canon.

Which Latin America?
by Diego del Valle RíosOctober 9, 2019 12 videos • 1:57:36 total runtime

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