Puerto Rican Art at the Whitney Museum

No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, at the Whitney Museum, remembers the disastrous storm that walloped Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The exhibition title proclaims, “a post-hurricane world doesn’t exist.” Woke bugaboos such as colonialism, climate change, and capitalism dominate the catalogue, which is an orgy of victimhood in parts but also educational and sometimes persuasive on the issue of massive government failure.

The art was a revelation to me. Some of it’s good, some trivial, but I didn’t know any of the artists, so I learned a great deal. No existe is the first major museum survey of new Puerto Rican art in 50 years — it’s overdue.

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Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria, at the Whitney Museum, remembers the disastrous storm that walloped Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The exhibition title proclaims, “a post-hurricane world doesn’t exist.” Woke bugaboos such as colonialism, climate change, and capitalism dominate the catalogue, which is an orgy of victimhood in parts but also educational and sometimes persuasive on the issue of massive government failure.

The art was a revelation to me. Some of it’s good, some trivial, but I didn’t know any of the artists, so I learned a great deal. No existe is the first major museum survey of new Puerto Rican art in 50 years — it’s overdue.