This Must Be the Place

This book, published at the tail end of the two-part exhibition of the same name, expands on the doctoral dissertation research of Aime? Iglesias Lukin, the director and chief curator of the Americas Society. Both the exhibition and the book make valuable contributions to the study of art made in and in relation to New York City, to the history of art made by artists from Latin America, and to the body of scholarship tracing the transnational networks artists from the region circulated through during the late sixties and early seventies....The book and exhibition are positioned as "inspiration for future research into the many interconnections between artworks, communities, and lives that have yet to be celebrated". This Must Be the Place, making a wealth of recollections, works of art, and documentation available to a larger public, is the generous first step. -- Niko Vicario * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *
Makes a salient point that while we often view immigration as an isolating experience, Latin American artists fomented New York's cultural boom through at times fleeting yet supple collaborative networks. -- Ela Bittencourt * ArtReview *
[It's] greatest strength is its insistence that the US did not passively allow representation; artists had to fight for it. -- Billy Anania * Hyperallergic *
To Latino artists it was both home and battleground. To Latin American transplants it was a stage where a politics of aesthetics was playing out in new avant-garde styles and forms: Minimalism, Conceptualism, video and performance. And what extraordinary artists the experiments brought to New York. -- Holland Cotter * New York Times: Arts *