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Art Basel Unveils Further Highlights for its 2024 Edition

The 2024 edition of Art Basel in Basel will feature 286 of the world’s leading galleries, showcasing the highest quality of works across all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital artworks. 22 first-time participants will join a robust lineup of European exhibitors and returning galleries from around the globe.

News from CIFO

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation has appointed a new director and curator: Venezuelan Jesus Fuenmayor, who is a member of its Advisory Committee since 2009.

Kcho at the Havana Grand Theater

The first retrospective exhibition of Alexis Leiva Machado, Kcho, entitled Sacrificio en la Encrucijada (Sacrifice in the Crossroad), opened yesterday, Sunday, in Havana

ARCO Madrid Revs Up

As national and international press members were gathered at IFEMA, the minister from Holland, guest country in this edition, accompanied by the director of the event, Carlos Urroz, ardently defen

Arte por Excelencias Magazine’s 13th Issue to Be Launched

Arte por Excelencias magazine’s 13th issue is going to be launched on February 15, at 4:00 pm, at Havana’s Spanish-American Culture Center (Casa de las Cariatides, Malecon, near the corne

López Oliva: the poetics of displacement

(...) The Caribbean and the Carnival have been the ultimate stages for the mask in its cultural and symbolic dimension; from its primary meaning as an attribute, a component of an out

About the possibility of a complete structure

(...) In recent years Caribbean art practice is dominated by the need to add spaces and seek speakers that can deliver a more effective impact of the work in its context. Collaborativ

Sounds in the forest

Half a century ago, in 1986, the Second Havana Biennial named a jury coming from three continents. It unanimously gave a prize to a piece presented on the last day by Manuel Mendive.

Guatemala: Politics in Art and Arts in Politics

In his book Didáctica de la Liberación (2008) (Liberation Didactics), Luis Camnitzer states several ideas that revolve around creation and politics in Latin America.

Memory as an Artistic Pre-text

The work of the Puerto Rican Artist, Pepón Osorio, replaces and re-produces on an artistic level the logic of memory. For him, as for the Caribbean individual in general, memory is a

At the Grand Swimming Pool and its Borders

(...) I don’t believe that you can talk about a market for the Caribbean and Central America. If you analyze fairs and auction catalogs, artists from these regions are counted, really

Editorial 13

Three years of experience already endorse our young visual arts magazine. This issue inaugurates a new cycle; opening new perspectives in the publishing business that we trust will place us at the

MIRADAS DE MUJERES 2012

Miradas de Mujeres arrives to the Spanish capital with a compelling proposition

Beatriz Barral at UnderDior

Beatriz Barral inaugurates UnderDior with the exhibition Retro-pros-pectiva del siglo XXI.

What to read in the upcoming issue of ARTE POR EXCELENCIAS

Arte por Excelencias no. 13, which is currently being designed, intends to rethink the concept of publication, giving readers theme cores, instead of sections, allowing them to gain acces