Wifredo Lam at the Museum of Latin American Art

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."

Click here to read the whole review of the Wilfred Lam show at the Museum of Latin American Art.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

Image: "Woman With Long Hair, I" from 1938, is among the works in "Wifredo Lam in North America" at the Museum of Latin American Art. Credit: Museum of Latin American Art