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Vernacular architecture in Caracas

Today’s Caracas boasts only a handful of colonial ambiences. The impetuousness of modernity rules the urban image, determined by the number and verticality of buildings, huge avenues and thoroughfares

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 pai

Latin American public art over the last two decades.

From a multitude of approaches, art critics, curators, artists and other experts have homed in on what they call public art, though there’s no such thing as a stamped theoretical definition resulting f

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 sculp

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. His car

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

Art on the Web...

For those who like critical and appreciative analysis of art, the coming of new publications is always a reason for joy. For over a century, culture-oriented magazines have been adding volumes to the i

Editorial 4 English

The fourth issue of Art by Excelencias brought to our readers today speaks volumes of how our publication –in a short span of time– has been enhancing its ties with experts, institutions, artists and c

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, iden

Tomás Sánchez. Going beyond time

“Those who are creative work through the past, the present and the future, going beyond time; those who are not, accept the ties of the old and the new”. Abanindranath Tagore The latest presentations