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Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

Grupo Excelencias Celebrates 20 Years of the Excelencias Awards in Madrid

In an emotion-filled ceremony, Grupo Excelencias celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Excelencias Awards on October 29, which, for two decades, have highlighted the most outstanding projects in tourism, gastronomy, art, and culture in Ibero-America.
Mabel Poblet´s artwork with Collage Habana

Art Madrid Leaves Sweet Aftertaste

With a strong presence of local galleries and after seven editions, the fair has focused its efforts on promoting young collecting, along with a boost to emerging art, from sections Young Art (wit

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.