Wifredo Lam at the Museum of Latin American Art
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Times Art Critic Christopher Knight reviews the Wilfredo Lam show at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.
The Cuban painter ‘was Creole -- Afro-Spanish on his mother’s side, Cantonese on his father’s -- and that hybrid identity is reflected in his art,’ writes Knight.
‘Lam is one of those second-tier Modern artists -- there are a lot of them -- whose work rarely fails to impress when it is encountered but isn’t encountered nearly often enough. Out of sight, out of mind, his paintings have become perpetual surprises.’
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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City