#hispanichistorymonth

[itgetsbetterproject]

It's #HispanicHeritageMonth and today we're remembering Hector Xtravaganza!

After being rejected by his family for being gay, Hector stumbled upon New York City's ballroom community in the 1980's where he found a chosen family and discovered Voguing. He joined House of Xtravaganza, the first primarily Latine ballroom house with the notorious Angie Xtravaganza as House Mother, and quickly garnered a name for himself on the runway.

But Hector didn't stop there - after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, he began to use his ballroom notoriety to support HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns - from founding the House of Latex Project with the Gay Men's Health Crisis to reach members of the LGBTQ+ Black and Latine ballroom communities, to appearing in official treatment campaigns with the NYC Department of Health.

Later in life, he became House Father and House Grandfather, and even consulted for the show Pose to help depict the ballroom scene accurately. March 9th is officially Hector Xtravaganza Day in NYC in commemoration of all his work - thank you for being an icon and an activist, Hector!

[artbookdap]

Just a few of the remarkable artworks collected in 'Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift,' a staff pick for Hispanic History Month.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 'Sur moderno' explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished in South America between the mid-1940s and the late 1970s in light of the profound cultural transformations that gave rise to them. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition @themuseumofmodernart in New York, 'Sur moderno' features work by artists from Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela—including Lidy Prati, Tomás Maldonado, Rhod Rothfuss, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Jesús Rafael Soto and Alejandro Otero—who advanced the achievements of early-20th-century geometric abstraction and built a new modern vision of the region.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This richly illustrated volume highlights a selection of works gifted to MoMA by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros between 1997 and 2016—a donation that has had a transformative impact on the Museum’s holdings of Latin American art. The Cisneros Modern Collection, which includes paintings, sculptures and works on paper, allows for in-depth study of the art produced in the region at mid-century, enabling the Museum to represent a more comprehensive, plural, and robust narrative of artistic practices and to demonstrate the integral role Latin America played in the development of modern art.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @cppcisneros #cisneroscollection #surmoderno #abstractart #concreteart #southamericanart #southamericanabstraction #southamericanconcreteart #hispanichistory #hispanichistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CTSigIyJvzs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jaydefrederick]

Today’s Hispanic STEAM Queen is Lydia Komaroff. Lydia is a molecular and cellular biologist who has worked as an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a business woman. She was also the third Mexican American woman in the United States to receive a doctorate degree in the sciences. #xxsteamqueen #steamqueensunday #hispanichistorymonth #steamqueensundays https://www.instagram.com/p/BoEj8a-AjqI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n8n7htoy4c4v

[scoobyd8282]

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[chronsofnon]

Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Garcia were the women who initiated the Stonewall Inn uprising. So of course the movie "Stonewall" depicted the initiator as a white male American Apparel model. Because fuck Hollywood. #BlackHistoryMonth (& early #HispanicHistoryMonth)

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#Repost @latinocalendar ・・・ www.LatinoCalendar.com Did You Know?!? 3/21:: Óscar Meléndez, one of the five original members of the pop band Menudo, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1966 ⭐ The 365 Days of Latino Facts Calendar is available now! Order today while supplies last >> LatinoCalendar.com ⭐ 🇵🇷🇩🇴🇨🇺🇨🇴🇦🇷🇲🇽🇪🇨🇵🇦🇻🇪🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻🇧🇴🇵🇪🇺🇾 #LatinoCalendar #Latino #Latina #chicano #chicana #latinx #FollowUs #OscarMelendez #quotes #Menudo #Mexican #Caribbean #Salsa #Mexico #Miami #MelendezBrothers #songwriter #iAmLatina #iamlatino #latinastrong #Singer #pianist #quote #Latinocommunity #latinasinpolitics #WHM #HHM #HispanicHistoryMonth #Latino365

[artbookdap]

Another staff pick for Hispanic History Month: 'Luchita Hurtado' — an oral autobiography and scrapbook of the amazing life of American painter Luchita Hurtado, from Venezuela to Los Angeles via Surrealism, magical realism and countless key art scenes of the 20th century in between — from @hauserwirth⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Over the course of her long and rich life, Venezuelan-born American painter Luchita Hurtado created a stunning body of work that only received the widespread attention it deserves toward the end of her life. In her paintings, Hurtado moved seamlessly between modernism and Surrealism, taking inspiration from South American weavings and her passion for environmentalism.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This handsome volume celebrates Hurtado’s life and work in her own words through a conversation with @hansulrichobrist along with an abundance of never-before-seen photographs and artworks, such as self-portraits and erotic drawings. Along the way we learn of her early life in New York City, her emergence as a painter, her life with her husbands Daniel de Solar, Wolfgang Paalen and Lee Mullican, and a whole cast of artists from Leonora Carrington and Isamu Noguchi to her son Matt Mullican.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Introduction and interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Afterword by Manuela Wirth. Edited by Karen Marta.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #luchitahurtado #hispanichistory #hispanichistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CTSQknDleTm/?utm_medium=tumblr

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September is Hispanic History Month, so we're featuring a few photographs from one of our favorite and most enlightening photobooks of 2021: 'Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography and the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, 1946–1964,' published by @themuseumofmodernart and expertly curated and edited by @thesarahmeister⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of São Paulo’s Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, a group of amateur photographers founded in 1939 that is essentially unknown today to European and North American audiences. The vast majority of FCCB members pursued photography outside of their day jobs as lawyers, businessmen, accountants, journalists, engineers, biologists and bankers, but they were nonetheless quite serious about their artistic ambition. Their radical experimentations with process and form and their determination to distill inventive compositions from everyday life contributed to their esteemed reputation within an active international postwar scene—a status that has been all but forgotten.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This richly illustrated publication assembles a robust selection of photographs to introduce the FCCB’s photographic experiments to an international audience. Six chapters highlight individual achievements nestled between thematic groupings that suggest the breadth of the club’s talent. Curator Sarah Meister’s essay situates the FCCB within the broader contemporary art scene in Brazil as well as a dynamic network of photographers around the world, and offers fresh insight into the status of the amateur then and now. This is the first non-Portuguese-language publication to grapple with these photographs that were widely heralded at the time of their creation.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Photos here by #geraldodebarros / #aldoaugustodesouzalima / #andrecarneiro & #julioagostinelli⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #fotoclubismo #brazilianphotography #brazilianmodernistphotography #modernistphotography #FotoCineClubeBandeirante #photoclub #amateurphotography #saopaulo #hispanichistorymonth #hispanichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CTR9CrGL4kB/?utm_medium=tumblr