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The Big Apple has a plethora of smaller art exhibitions fueled by inclusivity or social change missions.

Tsabar’s ‘deviant’ musical instruments invite chance and collaboration into the hallowed spaces of art

How institutions like Anacostia Community Museum, Wing Luke Museum, and El Museo del Barrio serve as models for community engagement.

These museums highlight the rich history of Latin America and Latinos in the United States. Discover Puerto Rican artists, Mesoamerican artifacts, and more.

Founded with a purpose to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art of Caribbean and Latin American cultures, New York’s El Museo del Barrio has become the nation’s leading Latinx and Latin American cultural institution.

Many Wests is an exhibition focused on what gets left out of stories traditionally told about the American West. Visions of Anglo Americans bravely settling the landscape originate, as we learn from the exhibition’s didactic material, with the U.S. government’s policy of unhalted territorial expansion beginning at the end of the seventeenth century.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum challenges the old mythology of the frontier

Modern and contemporary artists challenge romanticised visions of the American West

The 2023 Latinx Artist Fellowships were awarded to 15 artists, including Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Ester Hernandez, and Postcommodity.

“The situation now is quite different,” the critic Fred Camper wrote in 1986. Camper, in his much-debated essay of the same name, was marking w