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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.

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.

Kcho at the Havana Grand Theater

The first retrospective exhibition of Alexis Leiva Machado, Kcho, entitled Sacrificio en la Encrucijada (Sacrifice in the Crossroad), opened yesterday, Sunday, in Havana

ARCO Madrid Revs Up

As national and international press members were gathered at IFEMA, the minister from Holland, guest country in this edition, accompanied by the director of the event, Carlos Urroz, ardently defen

Arte por Excelencias Magazine’s 13th Issue to Be Launched

Arte por Excelencias magazine’s 13th issue is going to be launched on February 15, at 4:00 pm, at Havana’s Spanish-American Culture Center (Casa de las Cariatides, Malecon, ne

López Oliva: the poetics of displacement

(...) The Caribbean and the Carnival have been the ultimate stages for the mask in its cultural and symbolic dimension; from its primary meaning as an attribute, a component of an out