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Architectural Minimalism: A Loft for Living and Working

In our architectural practice we strive for an elegant economy of means, both material and aesthetic. We thrive on the analytical rigor required to bring order to complex programmatic and technical pro

Chronicles of the Floridian Arcadia

What do art fairs exhibit? The leftovers of works by historical avant-guard “sacred cows” that did not make it to museums, big companies and auction houses; the exponent “substitutes” of emerging trend

Broken Molds and Rich Polemics San Juan Poly/Graphics Triennial

The first San Juan Poly/graphic Triennial reviewed strict notions about engraving allowing of a broad interpretation of its influence and impact on modern languages of Latin American art. We dissecedt

Arístides E. Hernández (Ares)

He was born in 1963 in Havana. He graduated from Medical Sciences and First Degree in Psychiatry. His caricatures have been posted in all major local and international news media. He’s the most recogni

Survival of photography

Since the year 2001, the Urban Culture Foundation (FCU) in Venezuela has been implementing an inter-generic multiple editorial program that includes the FCU’s main collection, the Cuadernos series spec

Interiors and Circumstances of the Abstract

If there’s an esthetic expression that arouses amazement and suspicions virtually all around the planet, coupled with digressions, surprises and imitations –especially in the field of arts– that’s abst

The Eyes of Alfonso Reyes

Borges who, as everyone knows, did not pride himself of being condescending, wrote a great praise about Alfonso Reyes; a few verses that could be either the preface or the conclusion of the book recent

Art and Literature on the String

The first thing that strikes the attention is the way it is marketed, dangling from strings that display dozens or hundreds of pamphlets. That’s where the name stems from: literature on string.

A Fleeting and Disguised Witness?

Amazement came first. Is Severo Sarduy a painter? The novelist who wrote Cobra and Where We Come From, the poet of Big Band and Mood Indigo, the collaborating writer of larger-than-life magazine Tel Qu

Teresa Margolles: Death is Beautiful

The tragedy of a physical death will cause commotion; an allegoric death will make people shake far beyond the beauty it portrays Simile no. 1 In March 2010, the so-called “red shirts” had a beautifu