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Retrospective
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Charting Global Black Diasporic Geographies
"Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold", at the Brooklyn Museum, explores diasporic identity and the global histories of Black and Asian migration.
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Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island
Retrospective of Cuban-American artist’s work traces her influence on contemporary art.
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Ríos intermitentes: A Platform for Cuban Ancestral Spiritual Practices
On the long-term exhibition project in Matanzas that amplifies the healing works and restorative actions associated with Afro-Cuban identity.
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An exhibition about Afro-Cuban art at Harvard’s institution dedicated to the art of the African diaspora.
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Belkis Ayón and the Cuba-West Africa Connection
An essay mapping the Abakuá secret society and syncretisms in the African Diaspora through the incredible life and career of the Cuban artist.
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Susana Pilar: Reclaiming Space through Performance
A chat with Cuban artist Susana Pilar Delahante about her career and the work she presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale.
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Installation View: Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR)
INSTAR collective presents Operational Factography (2022), a counter-narrative of Cuban cultural history installed in Kassel.
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Cuban curator Roselin Rodríguez Espinosa reflects on the popular protest against the go-vernment of the island.
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One of the most inspiring Latinx artists of recent years talks about Cuban identity, imperial discourses – and the importance of recognition.
In Conversation with Alejandro de la Fuente
Cuba: “The Problem Is Not Silence – It’s Deafness”
The curator of “Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present” on Cuban history and the island’s artistic scene.
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An Initiative For Caribbean Art
Newly-formed in 2019, the Caribbean Art Initiative supports art exchanges and cultural programs across the Caribbean.
Slavery Images
The Image As Testimony Of The Unspeakable
An archive of historical images allows us a look into the terrible world of slavery in the Americas.
Havana Biennial 2019
Art Between Censorship And Complicity
The Havana Biennial claims to attempt a decentralization of the Cuban art scene. But things aren’t always what they seem.
Poco Bonito
Challenging Conventional Notions of Cuban Art
Located on a tourist trail in Cuba, an art gallery is fighting against stereotypical representations. But things aren’t always easy.
Catalogue of Cuban Female Photographers
A New Visual Canon for Cuba
A brand-new online platform brings together the works of Cuban female photographers from the 19th century to the present.
An Island Within an Island
Haitians in Cuba – “Two Homelands, One Blood”
Filmmaker Esery Mondesir discusses his new documentary “Una Sola Sangre”, about Haitian communities in Cuba.
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Ana Mendieta in Berlin
The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin shows the works if the legendary Cuban video artist Ana Mendieta.
Between the Official the Alternative
What Happened With the Havana Biennial?
The cancellation of this year’s Havana Art Biennial caused strong protests. But the story does not end there.
Cuban Contemporary Art Collections
Good Times, But We Should Look Beyond the “Boom”
Recent exhibits of Cuban art show evidence of an international interest in the island’s artistic production – and raise questions.
Between Afro-Cuban and Diasporic Frames
Displacements in Exhibitions’ Discourses
Afro-Cuban arts narrative from Wifredo Lam to José Bedia and the use of African diasporic concepts within the global art world.
In Focus: Cuba
“Afro-” and “-Cuban”: A Possible Nation?
How are black Cubans perceived? A walk through the history of the relationship between the visual arts and Cuban Afro identity.
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Despite their political differences, Cuba and Senegal established new programs and institutions dedicated to the arts.
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São Paulo, Brazil
25 November 2023 - 31 March 2024
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Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940
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10 March 2024 - 28 July 2024
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Gran Fury: arte não é o bastante
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São Paulo, Brazil
23 February 2024 - 09 June 2024
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Ciudad de Panama, Panama
01 February 2024 - 11 August 2024
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In Relation
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Nassau, Bahamas
01 March 2024 - 16 March 2024
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Pedagogia
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Belo Horizonte, Brazil
09 November 2023 - 03 June 2024
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Deborah Joyce Holman – Unless: The Potential of Subtle Acts of Refusal
We spoke to Swiss artist Deborah Joyce Holman about tools to resist the instrumentalization of identity politics.
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Ann Mbuti writes on Sam Gilliam's groundbreaking approach to painting and installation.
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Bree Gant: Studying Old Conversations with Ancestors
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Tiempo de Zafra: Materializing Imaginations from Contemporary Realities
Points about Dominican art and pop culture based on a conversation with the Tiempo de Zafra collective.
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Manifesto Against Cultural Subalternity
Two shows trace different aspects of the artist's work and highlight its importance for Brazilian art.
For Eyes That Can See
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Claudia Andujar, The Yanomami Struggle
The largest exhibition to date of the work of the Swiss-Brasilian photographer and activist, in the Fondation Cartier, Paris.
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Entitled "choreographies of the impossible", the Biennale is an "invitation to radical imaginations" and will take place in autumn 2023.
In Conversation with Ayana V. Jackson
"We Are Imagery's Biggest Victims"
American artist questions the role of the history of photography in the construction of race and gender stereotypes.
National Artists' Salon, Colombia
A View From the Other Side of Things
The “Salón Nacional de Artistas” in Bogotá explores different views on contemporary art inside and outside Colombia.
Guatemala
Imagining Queer Futures with Martín Wannam
A conversation with the visual artist and educator, whose two works about discrimination and queer resistance are on view at the 23nd Paiz Art Biennial.
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Artists in Transit in the 1960s and 1970s
In building bridges with Africa, Brazil’s military dictatorship did not hide its intentions to reinforce the country’s supposed racial democracy.
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Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão
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São Luís, Brazil
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São Paulo, Brazil
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Digital, United States
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Various, United States
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