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Swab Barcelona announces the 70 galleries taking part in its 17th edition

Swab 2024 will focus on the effervescent art scene in East Asia, with the city of Taipei as abenchmark on the contemporary Asian scene, beingthe protagonist of the SOLO Show by Vila Casas and Video Box programmes, dedicated to video art, and Tokyo and Seoul, as the protagonists of the Focus Tokyo - Seoul curated programme, which brings together young spaces from both metropolises.

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 ca

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

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 co

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, sculp

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<

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 econom

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

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 Contempora

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 exp

Central America and the Caribbean: Architectural Fragments*

(...) What were the elements of tradition which modern architects took on in order to develop a language that would establish a dialogue amid universal and local issues, promoting the

Neomexicanism Review in MARCO

The ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el Mexico de los ochenta exhibition was recently inaugurated at Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), a review of a decade o

DUDA, by Gustavo Acosta

The grand opening of an individual exhibit by Cuba’s Gustavo Acosta is scheduled for Feb. 14 at the Raymaluz Art Gallery in Madrid.

News from CIFO

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation has appointed a new director and curator: Venezuelan Jesus Fuenmayor, who is a member of its Advisory Committee since 2009.