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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.

Last Friday: Gabriel Sanchez Toledo at Lombillo Palace

Viajero anonimo, painting exhibition by Cuban creator Gabriel Sanchez Toledo, was opened on November 4 at Lombillo Palace, Old Havana.

Upcoming Exhibition at Blanca Berlin Gallery

Almanaque Automata bi-personal exhibition, by artists Jaime Compaire (Spain) and Veru Iche (Argentina), is to be opened on December 1 at Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid.

PULSE Miami 2011

PULSE is the main fair in the US that’s exclusively focused on contemporary art. Each edition is dedicated to the host city, going deeper into its cultural heritage. After the successful New York

Adriana Varejão, Medal to the Cultural Merit in Brazil

On Wednesday November 9, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef will be officially giving Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) one of the top awards related to that country’s culture, the 2011 Cultur

International Event for Contemporary Video Creation

With guests from almost 30 countries, the 4th edition of 2011 Camaguey International Video Art Festival is to be held on November 25 - 29, in this Cuban city.

A Curator of Contemporary Art for MALI

The Art Museum of Lima, Perú (MALI) a non-profitable private organization, is looking forward to hiring a new curator of contemporary art.

Cuban Art & Decorative Arts to Go Under the Gavel

A press conference to announce the details of the upcoming Subasta Habana edition –an event slated for Nov. 2-3 in the Cuban capital- was held yesterday, Oct. 26.

Closer to ARCOMadrid 2012

A jury made up of gallery manager Moises Perez de Albeniz, designer AngelSchlesser; Juan Varez, assistant counselor or Christie's Spain; architect Ignacio Vicens; Montse Cuesta, managing editor of

Estampa Joven: A Wrap-Up of Ten Editions

Ten editions of the La Joven Estampa Prize were the pretext of choice for a long-range exhibit that has been dominating the halls of the Casa de las Americas since Oct. 19. The artworks belong to

New Book on James Casebere’s Work

New York’s Barnes & Noble Publishers to launch James Casebere. Obras 1975-2010, put out by Okwui Enwenzor, this Wednesday October 26.

ARTE POR EXCELENCIAS 11-12 is online now

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

The Vietnam war comes to Cuba in pictures from the “belly of the beast”

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

A shot at Cuban Art

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

Essay as underside of poetry

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