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Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, this half-day symposium brings together artists and scholars to explore central works and key themes in the exhibition, including Torres-García's compelling appeal for a specifically Latin American form of modernity, and his influence on contemporary practice. Participants include Luis Camnitzer, artist; Estrella De Diego, Professor of Contemporary Art, Complutense University of Madrid; M

The artist Carmen Herrera has won the CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. Photo: Stefan Ruiz via The Telegraph. The College Art Association (CAA) has announced the recipients of the 2016 Awards for Distinction, which include artists Carrie Mae Weems andCarmen Herrera, and writer and art critic Rosalind E. Krauss. Weems has been honored with the institution's Distinguished Feminist Award, Krauss with the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing

In November 2015, I started aconversation with professor Steven Nelson, who had initially tweeted his findings regarding the number of tenured black professors of art history in the United States. Subsequently, I was contacted by Rose Salseda, a PhD student who, along with other scholars of Latino art, has founded the US Latina/o Art Forum. Salseda suggested contacting one of the co-creators of the forum, Dr. Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of