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Fair Yes, But Not Only That

ArteBANo. 21. Art Fair Buenos Aires While the primary objective of arteBA (like allart fairs) is selling works, its successive editions have gone beyond the purely commercial purposes and have beco

Thinking Contra La Toxina

The exercise of the review on the review doesn’t have an important presence in Cuba. The truth is that within the handful of specialized magazines that we have, there is some room for reviews on book

Marzx Rosado and Art as a Beauty Experience

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

About events and their actors...

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

Curating in the Caribbean

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

dOCUMENTA (13): Between the Collapse of the Doubt and the Recovery of the Search

"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

Latin-American and Caribbean art in the oasis of the market: Art 43 Basel

“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

Andrés Serrano: Heresy of What Is Classical

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 laboratory: disorientation, fragmentation and spectacle

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