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Art Madrid '26: 21 years of contemporary art

In 2026, Art Madrid will celebrate its 21st edition, further consolidating its position as a leading contemporary art fair in Spain. From 4 to 8 March, the fair will bring together thirty-five national and international galleries at the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles.

The Caribbean and Central America in Arte por Excelencias 14

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 –this topic will generate more…

New Exhibition at Excelencias Cultural Space

Excelencias Cultural Spacewill be inaugurating, on Friday May 18 at 19:00 hours, painting and sculpture exhibition Cuatro artistas, una mirada iberoamericana, by acclaimed artists Felipe Alarcon, Pedro S. Morillo, Alfonso Bravo Pina…

Xilitla: The Unfinished Dream

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 of artists arrived one day…

Yayo

Diego Herrera, Yayo, is

The Emperor’s New Suit: “He’s Naked!”

Guillermo Machuca is a renowned theoretician, art critic, curator and academician in Chile, a man who in recent years has opted for some kind of silence or low profile. Far from leading major curatorship in or out of his country,…

Q & A with Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter (1941) shoots with the effectiveness of a haiku through simple operations, with clean images and common objects placed in absurd or paradoxical situations. The Argentinean artist is one of the names to be…

Ethnotopia

Ethnotopia isa strategy of artistic representation, based on the synergic articulation of elements regarding the way of living and the habitat of a specific human group, obtaining as a result an indissoluble image. Such strategy is…

Lasa in the Eleventh Havana Biennial

The Artistic Laboratory of San Agustin(LASA) is making headlines againin this Eleventh Biennial. Following its foundation four years ago in this community located in the west of Havana, it’s been four years of hard work to deliver art in…

Havana Biennial: Side Exhibitions 2012

(...) Organizing the Eleventh Havana Biennial in 2012 has been a challenge to the National Council of Plastic Arts, in the first place, and to the Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art, in the second, the latter being in charge of…

Whitney Biennial: More or less under the same roof

Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial, featuring artists who allegedly take the pulse of the visual arts in New York and around the world, is held under the same roof. What was the outstanding thing about this year’s edition then…

ARCO 2012: Play, Transcend, Buy

The latest edition of ARCO 2012 has come to a close, leaving the doors open to some kind of generalized optimism. Art analysts and an increasing number of economists describe a somewhat heart-wrenching view in their chronicles…

With the Music Inside

A decolonial reading of the 26th National Visual Arts Biennial in Santo Domingo

 

About Submarines and Castles in the Sky

Esterio Segura’s new installation project for the 11th edition of the Havana Biennial (2012) implies the construction of a number of handmade underwater limousines and cars to be deployed along the Malecon seawall and other city areas in…

Sightings at Cuba’s Contemporary Art. The passion of Jose Busto

According to various seasoned Cuban artists and curators, one of the greatest weaknesses of our artistic field in the face of the international competition for exposé, positioning in the market, fairs and top-notch…