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Charmaine Poh’s First Institutional Solo Exhibition in Berlin

PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025.

Editorial 4 English

The fourth issue of Art by Excelencias brought to our readers today speaks volumes of how our publication –in a short span of time– has been enhancing its ties with experts, institutions, artists and countries from the Americas and the Caribbean,…

The Lynx, the mask and the tightrope

Maurizio Cattelan’s playful heresies are pigeonholed in the controversy between essence and appearance that rules different contemporary disguising strategies. Among the body, the object and the action, his hyperrealist sculptures and performances…

Latin American public art over the last two decades.

From a multitude of approaches, art critics, curators, artists and other experts have homed in on what they call public art, though there’s no such thing as a stamped theoretical definition resulting from the addition of features that qualify the…

SCREAMS AND WHISPERS

Over thirty books have been written about Alfredo Jaar (Chile, 1956). Outstanding thinkers from around the globe have churned out brilliant texts on the most recognized Chilean artist worldwide. Some of those boldface names include Georges Didi-…

OMAR ALBERTO FIGUEROA TURCIOS

Born in Corozal, Sucre, Colombia, in 1968. He was a collaborating writer with all major Colombian newspapers and magazines, such as El Tiempo, El Espectador, Revista Cromos, Semana, and others.

RODRIGO MOYA: THE INSURRECTIONAL IMAGE

Rodrigo Moya is Mexican and was born in 1934. After 75 years of an intense lifetime in which he’s tried his hand at several trades and has nourished on countless experiences, the art and the trade that have taken roots in him are photography and…

AN ORIGINAL GLANCE AT GOYA

Goya and the Voices of Dawn, by writer Reyes Caceres Molinero, assumes an original contribution to a topic that art mavens, researchers and historians have time and again gone over in one of Goya’s paintings: the celebrated “The Prince Pius Mountain…

Does the Abuse Stop Here?

In his cult text “The Sufficiently Good Artist: Beyond the Avant-Garde Artist,” Donald Kuspit hurt for forever more the pride-swollen megalomania found in that kind of artist. Kuspit stripped the histrionic narcissism of the two basic typologies the…

Agbón Ilé

The Orí. El Òrìsà personal exhibition is just another excuse to take back on Santiago Rodriguez Olazabal’s artwork, one of the esthetic proposals that better brings together the rituals, the…

The edge and the boundary: Libia Posada’s work

Artistic practices are “ways of doing” that take part in the general distribution of the ways of doing and in its relationships with the ways of doing and the forms of visibility. Jacques Ranciere

Preserving The Caribbean’s Modern Architecture*

The relative similarity in key aspects, like weather and geography, coupled with the wise and talented interpretation of these conditions by the local and foreign architects who designed works in different Caribbean nations, prompted architectural…

There’s something going on in Central America

Central America has entered a new era and reached a point of no return

Tenth Cuenca Biennial. Reality and new times

Q & A with Head Curator. José Manuel Noceda. The tenth edition of the Cuenca International Biennial –slated from Oct. 22 to Dec. 4 this year– will this time around have an expert from another country as the event’s head curator.

The Young Looks

Watching the youngsters still seeing Casa de las Americas as a space of recognition and promotion for their fledgling careers is a satisfaction for those who started out that project and cultural center some fifty years ago. The fact of the matter…