Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way Review

Clara Maria Apostolatos, The Brooklyn Rail, July 29, 2026

Encompassing Latin American and Caribbean diasporic experience in the United States-across affiliations such as Chicano, Nuyorican, and Dominican-American identity-the Latinx category remains resistant to fixed contours, since to define it too tightly is also to delimit it. Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, curated by Andrea Alvarez at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, embraces that expansiveness while attempting to take stock of a sprawling and remarkably diverse field. With fifty-eight artists-two more than the 2026 Whitney Biennial survey of American art-the exhibition carries, not unreasonably, something of the same ambition and scale: less a fixed account than a provisional census of a field in motion.

 

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