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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.

IN VITRO arrives in El Site in Madrid to Give Artists Voice, Media Hype

In Vitro, a non-lucrative project that came into being in an effort to inform, gather and foster the emerging arts, is getting whipped into shape beginning Nov. 11 at the El Site Hall (C/

Last Friday: Gabriel Sanchez Toledo at Lombillo Palace

Viajero anonimo, painting exhibition by Cuban creator Gabriel Sanchez Toledo, was opened on November 4 at Lombillo Palace, Old Havana.

Upcoming Exhibition at Blanca Berlin Gallery

Almanaque Automata bi-personal exhibition, by artists Jaime Compaire (Spain) and Veru Iche (Argentina), is to be opened on December 1 at Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid.

PULSE Miami 2011

PULSE is the main fair in the US that’s exclusively focused on contemporary art. Each edition is dedicated to the host city, going deeper into its cultural heritage. After the successful New

Adriana Varejão, Medal to the Cultural Merit in Brazil

On Wednesday November 9, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef will be officially giving Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) one of the top awards related to that country’s culture, th

International Event for Contemporary Video Creation

With guests from almost 30 countries, the 4th edition of 2011 Camaguey International Video Art Festival is to be held on November 25 - 29, in this Cuban city.

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