Located inside the University of Texas, in Austin, the Blanton Museum integrates for the first time Latin American art in its permanent collection. The museum will show its permanent collection on February 2006, in a new gallery that will harbor around 300 pieces by 275 artists, made between the end of the 19th century and up to our days. Under the title of America/Americas, the exhibition seeks to explore the convergence and the divergence and the historical, political, economic and cultural relationships between North America, Center and South America. The Blanton Museum had previously made incursions into these topics, through exhibitions such as Past Present Future (2001) and Time/Frame (2002). The works in America/Americas will be shown chronologically, according to specific movements, styles and topics. It will include the works of: Vito Acconci, Antonio Berni, Luis Camnitzer, Jorge de la Vega, Eugenio Dittborn, Yayoi Kusama, Jorge Macci, Ana Mendieta, Mark Rothko, Cildo Meireles, David Alfaro Siqueiros, George Sugurman, Joaquin Torres Garcia and Angel Toirac, among others. The exhibition will analyze the historical development of the main artistic movements in the American continent including abstraction, social realism, abstract expressionism, new figuration, minimalism and political conceptualism. It also seeks to explore topics and ideas such as the encounter between cultures, including aboriginal cultures, the myth of borders and the dialogue between European modernism and the search for an American identity, the recovery of pre-Columbian past and the role of politics in Art. One of the curators of this exhibition is Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, curator of Latin American art, who said that ¿this exhibition will become a model for the institutions when they show the art of Latin America and of the United States of America."