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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.

At the gates of the Havana Biennial

Next May 11th the eleventh edition of the Havana Biennialwill be opened, the largest and most complex visual arts event in Cuba, founded in 1984 under the management of the Contempora

Feverishness in Times of Santa Barbara

(...) If with any one adjective I were to describe Art Basel, I would use “overwhelming”. An immense dizziness –like Rousseau’s whirlwind– is what we experience, when naively; we try

Central America and the Caribbean: Architectural Fragments*

(...) What were the elements of tradition which modern architects took on in order to develop a language that would establish a dialogue amid universal and local issues, promoting the

Neomexicanism Review in MARCO

The ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el Mexico de los ochenta exhibition was recently inaugurated at Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), a review of a decade of visua

DUDA, by Gustavo Acosta

The grand opening of an individual exhibit by Cuba’s Gustavo Acosta is scheduled for Feb. 14 at the Raymaluz Art Gallery in Madrid.

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