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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.

TRANS-HUMAN at JM Gallery

Ten creators make up the list of Trans-Human, an exhibition that will be opened to viewers at JM Gallery, Malaga, through March 17.

Maggi at Cayon Gallery

The acclaimed Uruguayan Marco Maggi inaugurated a personal exhibition on February 16 in the Spanish capital, which the artists said “proposesan itinerarywith 400 stops and no destination. A slow scandal, a stop that tries to stimulate our…

Factoria Habana Opens

Two exhibitions with a different profile were inaugurated last Friday 24 at Factoria Habana: Rojo Verdoso, by The Merger group and Patria, by Alejandro Campins, both commissioned by Concha Fontenla and coordinated by Sachie…

Mabel Poblet´s artwork with Collage Habana

Art Madrid Leaves Sweet Aftertaste

With a strong presence of local galleries and after seven editions, the fair has focused its efforts on promoting young collecting, along with a boost to emerging art, from sections Young Art (with 44 artists from 10 galleries) and One Project…

Architect Mario Coyula’s remarks at the launch Arte por Excelencias’ 13th issue

Rereading the magazine, I was surprised by the talent shown as it packs a remarkable amount of important texts into 96 pages, without affecting the quality or boring the readers, though in some cases the lavish but impenetrable verbal…

Good Omen for this Number 13

Over two hundred people attended yesterday in Havana the launch of Arte por Excelencias magazine’s issue 13th, reaching its fourth year of life.

Elena Ospina

Painter, illustrator and cartoonist born in Colombia. She began her work as an illustrator at the newspaper El Espectador. Over the last twenty years she has worked on numerous editorial and advertising projects in America and Europe.…

Too many catalogs

In the art world it is not uncommon to encounter critics affirming a twenty-year career without having published a single book. This peculiarity creates irritation amongst literary colleagues, whose astonishment is shared by those…

Museum of Fine Cuban Arts in Vienna

The Museum of Fine Cuban Arts, located in the 13th district of Vienna, opened in November 2009 with the exhibition of a remarkable selection of Cuban art that embraced painting, sculpture and installations. Once the seat of the…

Matta in the vortex

(...)  The homage paid by Casa de las Americas on the artist’s centenary, by means of the exhibition Matta: del arte al libro (Matta: from art to books), is part of…

Regional enclave, local scenes and contemporary art practices

(...) There is no international Art Biennial in the world that does not have the primary mission of conferring political visibility to the host city, making it stand out on the economic and cultural, regional and global maps. The…

Pinta NY in its V Anniversary: about the end of all identity

In recent years contemporary art fairs have shown an increasing ability to overcome the essence of their commercial status and become a first class aesthetic-cultural event, emulating the artistic quality of the biennial model,…

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 Contemporary Art Centre Wifredo Lam and the Ministry of…

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 to capture…