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The Museum of the Old Colony: An Art Installation by Pablo Delano

By Laura Katzman (Editor), Marianne Ramírez Aponte (Foreword by)
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By Laura Katzman (Editor), Marianne Ramírez Aponte (Foreword by)
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The Museum of the Old Colony is an ongoing conceptual art installation by visual artist Pablo Delano (b. 1954) that addresses the complex history of his native Puerto Rico after the Spanish—American War (1898), when the Caribbean archipelago was seized by the United States from Spain as a "possession." Appropriating archival photographs, film footage, and popular artifacts that Delano collects and "curates" for his performative museum, the installation provocatively critiques the stereotype...

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Social SciencesArt, Architecture & PhotographyLatinos & Latin AmericansArt - History & CriticismArt of the AmericasLatin American & Caribbean Art