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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.

Art Collecting Today, Heritage Tomorrow

Q & A with Corina Matamoros

 

(...) All series of objects tell you something about the hand that collects them. That’s inevitable. It’s part of the…

Reynerio Tamayo: SATELLITE LESSONS

 

Flashing its monochromatic character, and like if it’s all about pictures, Reyneiro Tamayo’s recent work plays to be a landscape, schemes it as fiction. The artist offers viewers upsetting visions in which he…

Art and Social Responsibility in the Heart of Central America Ortiz-Gurdian Foundation

 

In the mid 1990s, the random encounter between Fernando Paiz and Ramiro Ortiz on a plane unleashed a number of developments that triggered a sea change in Central American fine arts. As businessmen and art…

4th Pragmatic or the Utopia of Generosity

“Es un parque de diversiones”. “Una feria de artesanía”. “Van a construir una galería de tiendas”. En la parada inicial del P2, en la esquina de 3ra y E (Vedado), la gente observa curiosa el…

Reynerio Tamayo’s Invite to Have Fun

Reynerio Tamayo’s Gangsters en La Habana can be admired among the exhibitions of Cuban artists showcased at La Cabaña since last Thursday, one of the venues of collateral exhibitions in the 11th …

When Order Is Born out of CHAOS

Caos se nombra la muestra colectiva expuesta en Galería Habana desde este 9 de mayo y hasta el 10 de junio. Allí convergen piezas de creadores cubanos contemporáneos que en estos momentos tienen una presencia…

Patricia Villalobos, between the playful and the offensive

Patricia Villalobos Echeverria was born in Tennessee, United States and grew up in Nicaragua, got her master’s in Art at the University of West Virginia, in 1990. Her work has been a hybrid practice that includes engraving, photography,…

HB… A Right Move for Cuban institutions

Cuban art is truly acclaimed and valued worldwide, particularly since the 1980s, when a vigorous generation of young artists graduated in arts schools gained momentum in important enclaves for international art in Europe and America.

Los Carpinteros en CAOS. Cromo trece, 2011 (detalle). Lámpara de kerosene y bronce cromado. 17 x 57 x 71 cm

Art Market at the 11th Biennial

 

This Wednesday merged, among sessions before the official opening ceremony of Havana’s 11th Biennial, the intense mounting work carried out by the artists –in each of the venues– with two proposals…

Shared Creations: Visual Games to Kindle the Uninterested

 

Interview with Jose Manuel Noceda

By Xenia Reloba and Hector Bosch

In the middle of assembling the Shared Creations (Creaciones compartidas) collective exhibition,…

New Performance by Manuel Mendive at 11th Havana Biennial

 

AxE News attended on Monday a press conference by Cuba 2001 National Prize of Plastic Arts winner Manuel Mendive who announced details of his performance Las cabezas (The Heads) that will take place Thursday, May 10, at…

Cascarilla Project at Havana Biennial, Starting May 9

 

The true history of Cuba, a curatorial proposal by Cascarilla Project, led by artist and Professor Rolando Vazquez, was inaugurated Wednesday at 5.00 pm at the headquarters of the National Association of Architects and…

The «Silent Travelers» by Rafael Gomez

 

Many of us remember from three years ago, at the 10th Havana Biennial, Roberto Fabelo’s intervention of the National Museum of Fine Arts’ façade. The Cuban artist’s gigantic cockroaches come…

Eleventh Havana Biennial: Countdown

 

About 180 guest artists from 43 countries will coincide in the Cuban capital between May 11 and June 11 after the official inauguration of the Eleventh Havana Biennial under the slogan «Artistic Practices and Social…