An Argentine Artist in New York

What does it mean to be a Latin American artist? A new book of interviews with the artist Liliana Porter provides some interesting and surprising insights into this question. Porter was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up there and in Mexico City. At the age of 22, on her way to Europe to visit museums, she stopped in New York for a week. She was so impressed with the city that she postponed her trip to Europe. She began to study printmaking in New York, and there she met the Uruguayan artist Luis...