An exhibition at the Johnson Museum co-curated by Professor Ananda Cohen-Aponte, “Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” was recently featured in the New York Times. The article highlights multiple different exhibitions of note across upstate New York in order to draw attention to museums and art institutions outside of the New York City area.
“Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” opened July 20 and will be on view through December at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. It is the first exhibition of colonial Latin American art at Cornell.
The exhibition features work predominantly created by Indigenous, Black, Asian and mixed-race artists from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines during the period of Spanish colonial rule, which ran from approximately 1492 to 1830.
The full New York Times article featuring "Colonial Crossings" can be read here.
