New York’s Barnes & Noble Publishers to launch James Casebere. Obras 1975-2010, put out by Okwui Enwenzor, this Wednesday October 26.
With this (double) issue of Arte por Excelencias, we are looking forward to tackling Colombian visual production through the text written by Cuban curator and researcher Ibis Hernandez Abascal, wh
Summer 1972. Before Chile brought me there, I was determined to see Cuba, the Revolution. The Viet Nam war raged. Where I was employed (University of California at Santa Barbara) I ha
The most recent history ofCuban art has been marked by polemical exhibitions, some of which have been staged coincidentally in the first years of the last few decades. The most outstanding ones ha
Los signos mutantes del laberinto (The Mutant Signs of the Maze), by Rafael Acosta de Arriba, is the first book published in Cuba on Octavio Paz, and I don’t remember a previous
Maybe it’s not such a bigmistake to think that the notions Sally O’Reilly addresses in her book The Body in Contemporary Art are somehow linked to the idea that photography barely survive
Design represents, in any of its expressions –industrial,graphic or showroom– a decisive component in the relation between men and the environment. During the last half century, Latin
Angel Boligan Corbo was born on May10, 1965 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He graduated in 1987 as a Fine Arts Professor. He currently lives in Mexico where he works as a cartoonist for the
With the grand opening of the Review exhibit atthe OrigenesGallery, the Arte por Excelencias project has just joined the celebrations for the 100th issue of the Caribbean Tou
Yang Fudong, young artist born in 1971, belongs to a generation that has gone through many commotions in every order: “In China, who has received education can be ambitious, but always finds obsta
The exhibition Disagreements (Desacuerdos), at the Fototeca de Cuba, by Ambra Polidori (born in Mexico and of Italian descent) was one of the major photography displays ever showcased in
Interested in the complex relation betweenParaguayans and Argentineans –pervaded by hindrances from the Triple Alliance war (1864-1870), dictatorial complicity (Condor plan), border tensions and c
In an article written by Luis Camnitzer in 1999, the author referred to how “the model of Biennial art exhibition and the Olympic Games have survived a century of apparent evolution f
With this issue of Arte por Excelencias magazine we delve into the creative dynamics of Colombian fine artists, basically in the categories of social intervention, installation and perfor