LACMA | Brown Auditorium. Free and open to the public. Plan Your Visit. Taking a novel approach to Latin American modernism, this talk will address how a remarkably mobile generation of artists in Latin America envisioned modern art as a tool for resisting colonialism and celebrating new subjectivities. It describes how artworks and criticism circulated among Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima through printed media, friendships, and the artists' desire to forge a network among cultural centers in Latin America in the 1920s. This lecture will be given by Dr. Harper Montgomery, leading expert in Latin American Art and professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at Hunter College. Image: Structural Study for a Mural (Estudio estructural para mural), Carlos Mérida (Guatemala, active Mexico, 1891-1984)Guatemala, 1921