Modernism goes Latin American at MoMA

A major gift of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) stands to change the way in which Modernism is understood. In October, the Venezuelan collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and her husband, the media billionaire Gustavo Cisneros, donated 102 works of Latin American art to the New York institution. The gift will enable MoMA to expand its narrative of 20th-century art history and to install works by Latin American artists alongside their North American and European contempora