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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.

A Curator of Contemporary Art for MALI

The Art Museum of Lima, Perú (MALI) a non-profitable private organization, is looking forward to hiring a new curator of contemporary art.

Cuban Art & Decorative Arts to Go Under the Gavel

A press conference to announce the details of the upcoming Subasta Habana edition –an event slated for Nov. 2-3 in the Cuban capital- was held yesterday, Oct. 26.

Closer to ARCOMadrid 2012

A jury made up of gallery manager Moises Perez de Albeniz, designer AngelSchlesser; Juan Varez, assistant counselor or Christie's Spain; architect Ignacio Vicens; Montse Cuesta, managing edito

Estampa Joven: A Wrap-Up of Ten Editions

Ten editions of the La Joven Estampa Prize were the pretext of choice for a long-range exhibit that has been dominating the halls of the Casa de las Americas since Oct. 19. The artworks belong to

New Book on James Casebere’s Work

New York’s Barnes & Noble Publishers to launch James Casebere. Obras 1975-2010, put out by Okwui Enwenzor, this Wednesday October 26.

ARTE POR EXCELENCIAS 11-12 is online now

With this (double) issue of Arte por Excelencias, we are looking forward to tackling Colombian visual production through the text written by Cuban curator and researcher Ibis Hernandez Abascal, wh

The Vietnam war comes to Cuba in pictures from the “belly of the beast”

Summer 1972. Before Chile brought me there, I was determined to see Cuba, the Revolution. The Viet Nam war raged. Where I was employed (University of California at Santa Barbara) I ha

A shot at Cuban Art

The most recent history ofCuban art has been marked by polemical exhibitions, some of which have been staged coincidentally in the first years of the last few decades. The most outstanding ones ha

Essay as underside of poetry

Los signos mutantes del laberinto (The Mutant Signs of the Maze), by Rafael Acosta de Arriba, is the first book published in Cuba on Octavio Paz, and I don’t remember a pre

Bodies in my Mirror

Maybe it’s not such a bigmistake to think that the notions Sally O’Reilly addresses in her book The Body in Contemporary Art are somehow linked to the idea that photography ba

Latin American and Caribbean Design

Design represents, in any of its expressions –industrial,graphic or showroom– a decisive component in the relation between men and the environment. During the last half ce

BOLIGÁN

Angel Boligan Corbo was born on May10, 1965 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He graduated in 1987 as a Fine Arts Professor. He currently lives in Mexico where he works as a cartoonist for

REVIEW by Arte por Excelencias

With the grand opening of the Review exhibit atthe OrigenesGallery, the Arte por Excelencias project has just joined the celebrations for the 100th issue of the Caribbean Tou

Yang Fudong Within the Timeframe

Yang Fudong, young artist born in 1971, belongs to a generation that has gone through many commotions in every order: “In China, who has received education can be ambitious, but always finds