At MoMA, Latin American Artists Look Back to the Past in Order to Plot Their Future

In 2016, ARTnews Top 200 collectors Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros made headlines when they announced they would donate 102 works from their esteemed collection of Latin American art to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and provide funds to establish a research center for Latin American art. In 2019, Inéz Katzenstein, MoMA’s curator of Latin American Art, mounted the museum’s first exhibition drawing from gift. Titled “Sur moderno: Journeys of Abs