Bogotá Museum of Modern Art MAMBO
Brick museum of Latin American modern art, born from one critic's fight to get it open.
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This guide to Bogotá's Museum of Modern Art traces why a museum chartered in nineteen fifty-five sat empty for eight years, no director, no building, no show, until Argentine art critic Marta Traba took over its stalled paperwork. You'll hear how she arrived in Bogotá following her husband's newspaper job, tore into the local art scene as a newcomer, and pushed the first exhibition into a rented downtown space. A run-in with a military officer over statue placement nearly cut her time here short, well before the brick building around you existed.
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