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Charmaine Poh’s First Institutional Solo Exhibition in Berlin

PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025.

Three Hispanic-Cuban files

Today we’re pulling out three files. They belong to artists who are considered to be both Spanish and Cuban in the same breath. It’s not a riddle, but just the trappings of this complex planet so full of borders, anthems, coats of arms and flags.

Art on the Web..

The vast possibilities opened up by the Internet from its start to date in terms of connectivity, simultaneity of actions and massive consumption of different topics and knowledge, have also entailed a new recognition in the cultural and artistic

NadalitoThe photography of mental processes

The Esthetics x Genetics exhibition (23 y 12 Art Center, 2007) by Matanzas-born artist Nadalito showcased a coherent process of interrelations among different aspects of the artist’s career. The main theme –consumption– puts the issue of design and…

Editorial 5 English

With issue number five, Art by Excelencias is marching on to its second year of publishing life. New territories and artists from Argentina, Bolivia, Canada and Colombia are joining this time around from such expressions as architecture, painting,…

OMAR ALBERTO FIGUEROA TURCIOS

Born in Corozal, Sucre, Colombia, in 1968. He was a collaborating writer with all major Colombian newspapers and magazines, such as El Tiempo, El Espectador, Revista Cromos, Semana, and others.

RODRIGO MOYA: THE INSURRECTIONAL IMAGE

Rodrigo Moya is Mexican and was born in 1934. After 75 years of an intense lifetime in which he’s tried his hand at several trades and has nourished on countless experiences, the art and the trade that have taken roots in him are photography and…

AN ORIGINAL GLANCE AT GOYA

Goya and the Voices of Dawn, by writer Reyes Caceres Molinero, assumes an original contribution to a topic that art mavens, researchers and historians have time and again gone over in one of Goya’s paintings: the celebrated “The Prince Pius Mountain…

Eleven in Argentina

Those who know about the history of Cuban art have probably found out that, in keeping with the historic rigor, this heading must be construed as a blunder because the group of Cuban painters and sculptors linked to abstraction and running by that…

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For those who like critical and appreciative analysis of art, the coming of new publications is always a reason for joy.

Tomás Sánchez. Going beyond time

The latest presentations staged by Tomas Sanchez –who has expressed himself through painting, drawing, ceramic art, puppet design, set design, fabrics, graphics and gems– reveal the multiplicity of a creative endeavor. Between November and December…

Art by Excelencias at UNEAC

With the presence of Miguel Barnet, president of Cuba’s League of Writers and Artists (UNEAC); deputy president Jose Villa Soberon; Lesbia Vent Dumois, president of the Fine Arts Association; Maria Caridad Gonzalez, the Excelencias Group’s permanent

First Chile Triennial. Scouting the boundaries

Chile’s First Visual Arts Triennial has displayed neither artworks nor artists who can put on a good show. However, a whole country got hyped as a scenario thanks to a job well done by renowned curator Ticio Escobar at the helm of a team of…

Four-handed

One of the most striking and symbolic artworks of the past Havana Biennia was no doubt “The Oil Tanker” by artists Reynerio Tamayo (Niquero, 1968) and Eulises Niebla (Matanzas, 1963). The piece intends to mull over some of the globalization facts:…

Killing the Discursive Father?

How can art reviews be made in the Americas? That’s a heck of a question. How can art reviews be focused on a young art where, as we read in this section of the magazine’s first issue, definition, identity and totality are key players? The Americas…