Marcel Duchamp: His use of irony, puns, alliteration, and paradox. Embodying the intellect of his literary contemporaries Marcel Proust and James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been aptly described by the painter […]
100 years of Marcel Duchamp
2017 VENICE BIENNALE: Cuba and Puerto Rico represented by Zilia Sánchez.
Zilia Sánchez. Born in Cuba in 1926, studying at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, Sánchez has since the early ‘50s developed a language that is highly significant when reconsidering […]
Exhibition | Endless Space, Ernesto Gutiérrez
Vargas Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Department of Vargas University, is proud to present Endless Space a solo exhibition of Ernesto Gutiérrez. Curated by Henry Ballate M.F.A. this exhibition reveals the […]
INFLUENCES OF MATISSE by Clement Greenberg
INFLUENCES OF MATISSE THE WORD ‘DECORATIVE’ is no longer used as freely as it once was in finding fault with works of pictorial art. Too much of the best art of our […]
Bill Viola
In front of or surrounded by one of Bill Viola’s videotapes or video/sound installa- tions, most viewers stand transfixed. In Five Angels for the Millennium (2001), we watch scenes of a figure […]
REFLECTIONS ON MASTERPIECES by Jules Olitski
THE MOST VIVID SENSE I ever had of a literal connectedness with the past in art was when some years ago I was looking at a beautiful fresco by Piero della Francesca […]
A Brief History of Women in Art
Women in Art Throughout the centuries, women have been involved in making art, whether as creators and innovators of new forms of artistic expression, patrons, collectors, sources of inspiration, or significant contributors […]
El hijo pródigo
by Roxana M. Bermejo. Admirar una obra desde el momento mismo en el que se gesta, desde que nace, desde que es anodina, resulta un placer indescriptible. Verla, y tener la certeza de […]
José Bedia
The graphic power of José Bedia’s mixed media drawings, paintings, and site-specific installations captivates viewers in a glance. In many of his artworks, linear elements lock elongated figures within a pattern as […]
El arte vino del mar
Por: Roxana M. Bermejo. Como parte de la gran oleada artística que acompaña la Feria de Art Basel en esta edición de 2016, encontramos un sinfín de propuestas que avivan, embellecen y provocan […]
