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
(...) 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
(...) 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
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
The grand opening of an individual exhibit by Cuba’s Gustavo Acosta is scheduled for Feb. 14 at the Raymaluz Art Gallery in Madrid.
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.
The first retrospective exhibition of Alexis Leiva Machado, Kcho, entitled Sacrificio en la Encrucijada (Sacrifice in the Crossroad), opened yesterday, Sunday, in Havana
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 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
(...) 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
(...) 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
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.
In his book Didáctica de la Liberación (2008) (Liberation Didactics), Luis Camnitzer states several ideas that revolve around creation and politics in Latin America.
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