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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.

Four in a Drawer

Earlier today I skimmed throug

RED. An exhibit of Cuban posters curated by designer Pepe Menendez Havana, 2009

Red is the color that correspo

Editorial 2 English

We’re giving our readers the second issue of our Art by Excelencias magazine. Based on the first issue’s magnificent acclaim among artists, critics and researchers in the realm of the fine arts, the Ex

Between Us and the Interpreter: Minimal Notes on an Exhibit by Rene Francisco

It’s understood that Rene Fran

TO SEE THE SPIRIT

I ignore whether curating a book –organize it, be responsible for all its images and vignettes, for all texts both critical and informative– may hamper someone from writing a review about it.

VANITIES AND RHIZOMES

El Observatorio de Línea (Ediciones Union, 2008) is an anti-academic book. I guess it’s the most bohemian book I’ve ever read and that enthralls me. I can’t help it. Elvia Rosa Castro gives herself all

Traveling with Camejo

A city vision, in which the light draws the full scope of the night, is the image that serves as backdrop for this book entitled “Luis Enrique Camejo Vento.”

WE, THE MOST UNFAITHFUL

Let’s begin with a common, equally necessary place to lodge ourselves in the point we want to get to.

EXCELENCIAS GALERY, A new space in Madrid for the Contemporary Art

The Excelencias Gallery, a

The Alternative Biennial

We’re living in very com plex times wi thin the universe of contemporary art, according to the signals coming from everywhere under the sun, either inside the country or outside. Never before there’s b

A Tico in Habana

If archives were not to be delved into and were scorned as simply useless and lugubrious places, we’ll be taking the risk of letting boldface names like Max Jimenez Huete (1900-1947) fall into oblivion

Cariebbean Art, THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

When the past century came to a close , the Caribbean art was basking in the international limelight. The 1990s were fertile in the opening of regional exchanges and in terms of major world-class exhib

Contemporary Art in NICARAGUA

I remember that a few years ago information on Central America’s artistic scene was scarce and misleading. On nations like Nicaragua, it used to be far more disappointing. No wonder one of the exhibits

VOICES LIKE ECHOES

The fact that America is a young people is borne out, first of all, by the very history of the United States. The arch of sense that would fundamentally span from the 2000 to the 2008 presidential elec