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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.

FUTURO VARIABLE (Variable Future)

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp, Felix Luque and Àlex Nogue exhibit at Bòlit, Contemporary Art Center in Girona, Spain, their reflections on the future, through referenc

MUNANSEKE BACHECHE, by José Bedia (Detail)

Review by Arte por Excelencias...

Arte por Excelencias joins the celebration for the 100th issue of Excelencias Turisticas del Caribe y las Americas magazine, with an exhibition carried out by 19 Cuban contemporary creato

5th edition of Art Élysées

A new edition of Art Élysées will be held at Champs Élysées, Paris, during the week dedicated to modern and contemporary art (October, 20 – 24).

Fabelo and the Pandora’s Box

The characters created by Roberto Fabelo (Camagüey,1950) dwell ina supra-real, oneiric world, in a place in which fantasy and the power of imagination get fired up to paroxistic levels; a par

Connect-art

Latin America boasts a longstanding tradition in photography dating back to over a century and a half. However, in the course of the past three decades, the region has panned out to b

GUILLO

Guillermo Bastias was born in Chile. He studied Architecture and Filmmaking at the Universidad Catolica. His caricatures have been published by APSI, El Mercurio dominical, the <

Leap Into the Void: Juan Suarez Blanco’s Painting

The exhibition of Cuban artist Juan Suarez Blanco Insular Rhapsody, displayed last December, January and February at the Lombillo Palace in Old Havana, marked a turning point in the c

Jamaican Art in Cuba

Sometimes certain historical and cultural processesare preceded by elements, that although do not constitute notable events, allow us to perceive the significance they will achieved s

Caribbean Houses in the eye of an antique lover

Five hundred years of historyofthe Western Indies are covered in the Caribbean Houses book by Michael Connors donated to Havana by the author after its release. Dr. Connors, with more

Visual testimony of memory

Somewhere in the iconographicarray of contemporary art –trends, nuances, modalities– an expressive aspect slithers down, one the official criticism won’t hesitate to

Show your Face

Faces, Bodies, Personas...groups two series of pictures. It opens with the Bodies and Personas pages which, at the same time derive from the Queer at the Margins of Society

Another logbook of the islands

When I outlined the title for thisarticle I thought of the pioneer travelers from Spain (there is no written evidence about Viking and Asian expeditions; even on more recent dates som

Identity crisis?

A few years ago while I was reading oneof the main Brazilian newspapers with a morning cup of coffee, a piece of news in the sports section struck my attention: “Metropolis Spoo

Autonomy: Margins and Visibility

The ideal of autonomy –either in art, culture or otherdisciplinary fields– comes back from time to time. The claim is always the same: independence in this or that front i