By Alexander Nixon, MA, Art History In 2007, Cuban-born performance artist Glexis Novoa staged a performance in New York City titled Honorary Guest (Guest), in which he and an actor, the spitting image of Fidel […]
RAUSCHENBERG IN CUBA
Ana Mendieta: Earthbound
The late Cuban-born artist’s powerful work, which was grounded in the natural world, is being exhibited outside for the first time By Belle Hutton The 1970s series Silueta is one of Cuban […]
Abstract Diversity in Painting
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries Highly accomplished artists with different visions of abstract painting are being exhibited in “Abstract Diversity in Painting” at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables, Florida through July 2019.For […]
El coleccionismo exige…
En las últimas décadas, el coleccionismo de arte cubano ha sido uno de los terrenos más accidentados en el panorama de las artes visuales en Cuba. La promoción y circulación del arte […]
See and Be Seen: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photography at the Guggenheim
By Caitlin Dover Strange but true: Robert Mapplethorpe did not start his artistic career as a photographer. “When I was in college, we had to take a photography course and I hated it,” he once […]
Serlian Barreto: El concepto de lo maravilloso
El concepto de lo maravilloso comienza a tomar forma cuando surge de una alteración inesperada de la realidad. Alejo Carpentier. Serlian Barreto (b. Havana, Cuba, 1997) se gradúa de la academia de […]
Apología del silencio (o la astucia de tensar los límites)
I La obra del artista cubano Jorge Santos (La Habana, 1973) posee un acento fuertemente antropológico. El ser humano y sus principales dudas y conflictos existenciales se erigen como los núcleos temáticos […]
The art of melting borders
Riccardo Attanasio obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University. Riccardo values the context he works in […]
Greater masters that have immortalized Notre Dame
There are few monuments that are more distinctly French or more woven into the history of France than Notre Dame Cathedral. As images of the fire ravaging through the historic church sparked […]
Allison Kotzig: Death Mask of the Fertile Crone
by Odette Artiles Allison Kotzig’s oeuvre is raw and untamed, a provocatively tongue-in-cheek opus, and quite beautiful in a primordial sort of way. Her work carries an innate sense of mysticism and […]
