Recent exhibitions and publications have attempted to describe the cultural production of Latin America as a definable entity, existing outside national or international contexts. This issue, guest-edited by Oriana Baddeley, asks: what are the characteristics of Latin Americanness and how do the issues of identity and difference raised by such a categorization affect the work of artists practising today? Reflecting the diversity of cultural production and critical debate surrounding contemporary Latin American art, contributions include essays on Alfredo Jaar, Eugenio Dittborn with Edward Lucie-Smith on Ricardo Cinalli, Chole Sayer on Mexican popular art, and David Elliot on young Argentinian artists.