Havana 1994 wasn’t perhaps the most enlightened place in the world; but it was without doubt a unique panorama to witness how a people got by despite difficulties. "I remember the nights in Havana we
The magazine is reaching its 15th issue with a vast assortment of critical comments, notes and reviews on major events that have taken place this year in the region and around the world, and that wil
In describing the contemporary condition in art of the Caribbean Diaspora, what he calls the ‘Third Moment,’ Stuart Hall identifies two major factors impacting the movement to give greater visibility
"A time came in which organizing the information became more important than the subject being dealt with. And that has meant taking a turn that scatters curatorial practices. A symptom of what we cou
“Collectors expect–and find–the best”, is the headline of one of the articles published by The Art Newspaper (Art Basel daily edition) during the Art Basel Fair in its 43rd edition. The phrase cannot
As if he had just left a Jimi Hendrix concert, I saw Andrés Serrano turn up in Terminal 2 at José Martí International Airport in Havana. His figure is after all a late modern appropriation of the cou
A few years ago, Nelson Herrera Ysla called the Havana Biennale “the greatest gallery in the world”, and he was partly right. Like other capitals in the planet, up to a point, the Cuban one is a muse
The Caribbean and Central America are back in the limelight in this issue, with texts that tackle specific situations in Jamaica and events in the Dominican Republic, while private art collections –t
At a site topped by a green foliage, deep in the jungle of Mexico’ s Huasteca, surrounded by a crushing humidity, Edward James, a wealthy man from Scotland, amateur painter, poet, writer and patron o