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Haiti
Denis Maksaens: Glitch and Representation in the Caribbean
The complex and layered digital art of the Haitian artist challenges exoticized views of the Caribbean shaped by tourism and Western fantasies.
Asia and Latin America
The Entanglement of Migration, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonialism
In his work, Esvin Alarcón Lam connects the history of bamboo in Central America with the colonial exploitation driven by the United Fruit Company.
Jamaica
The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons
Jasmine Thomas-Girvan’s work reimagines Caribbean memory through intricate assemblages that fuse nature, myth, and ancestral knowledge.
In Conversation With
Jesús Hilário-Reyes: Dissolving Notions of Group and Individual
In their antidisciplinary practice. Artist Hilário-Reyes combines performance, installation, objects and expanded cinema.
Asia and Latin America
Andrea Chung: Dematerialization to Subvert Commodification
An essay about the artist’s use of ephemerality in order to subvert commodification while developing an art practice as social justice.
Asia and Latin America
The Forgotten Asian Histories of Latin America
Mimian Hsu and Caroline Ricca Lee are two artists whose works unveil global capitalism’s devaluation of Black, indigenous, and Asian life.
Installation View
It Comes from the Head: A Straw Heritage
Exhibition in Nassau celebrates contemporary interpretations of strawcraft by Bahamian artists.
La Trienal 2024
Imagining perversely with Madeline Jiménez Santil’s Art
An essay on the hybrid work of the Dominican artist challenging the constructs imposed by the white, colonial, and heteronormative gaze.
Caribbean
Caribbean Musicality in the Work of Valerie Brathwaite
An account from Port of Spain on how Caribbean culture and nature have influenced Brathwaite’s sculptures.
14th Mercosul Biennial
A Biennial that relates sound to space and bodies
The chief curator and one of the adjunct curators reveal more details about the concept of the Biennial in Porto Alegre.
Haiti
Tessa Mars Links the Migratory Experience to Haitian Spirituality
In her solo show, the painter explores migration, spirituality, and identity, using ancestral knowledge from Voodoo traditions.
Studio Visit
Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance
We visit Anaïs Cheleux in her Guadeloupe studio to chat about sugar-cane syrup and her work at this year's Off Biennale in Dakar.
Installation View
Orgullo Nacional
The Orgullo Nacional [National Pride] exhibition showcases recent works by José Morbán and challenges the Dominican national ego and the ways in which history and identity are “constructed” or “erected” from positions of power.
Studio Visit
Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez
Our Managing Editor Marny Garcia Mommertz, visited the studio of mixed-media artist Julianny Ariza Vólquez in Santo Domingo.
Photography
Art and Identity in the Caribbean
Kosisochukwu Nnebe and Keisha Scarville are two artists exploring identity and migration in their Miami residency.
The Caribbean
Introduction to the employee manual
A talk on resistance strategies for cultural workers in the Caribbean and Central America.
60th Venice Biennale
A Journey into the Mind and Work of Julien Creuzet
In this conversation, dois C&AL editors, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Cristian Baena reflect on a recent press trip to Martinique alongside the artist and curators of the French Pavilion.
Installation View
(RE)COUTURE
Guy Gabon’s exhibition explores the notion of (re)sewing the world's disjointedness and the urgency of (re)weaving the bonds of a new humanity.
Caribbean
The project uniting Haitian and Dominican artists
An interview with the founder of RCHD about the third edition of their project that is creating community through art.
Contemporary And 10! C& TEN! 
C&10 – C&AL 5: Celebrate with us in Santo Domingo!
C&'s next public event will be a one-night screening and music program in collaboration with the Centro Cultural BanReservas in Santo Domingo.
In Conversation with
Eliazar Ortiz Roa: Connecting Antillean Society and Botany
A conversation with the Dominican artist, who is participating in the 23rd Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala.
In Conversation with
Curtis Talwst Santiago: "to me, drawing feels like a dance"
The polymath artist tells us about depicting Carnival and creating a thread between different mediums in his studio.
Mercosul Biennial
Biennial Foundation announces curatorial team
Raphael Fonseca, Tiago Sant'Ana and Yina Jiménez Suriel are announced as part of the artistic team of the biennial's 14th edition.
Haiti
Adler Guerrier: Dreams and Geographies that Transfigure Us
Adler Guerrier is an artist who operates within the realm of dreams where history remains but without conventional order.
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TERN Gallery
Nassau, Bahamas
03 July 2025 - 29 August 2025
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Camden Art Centre
London, United Kingdom
03 July 2025 - 21 August 2025
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Tierras reimaginadas: migración
ASU Art Museum
Tempe, United States
23 August 2025 - 02 August 2026
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O vento continua, todavia
Paço Imperial
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14 June 2025 - 10 August 2025
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Encruzilhadas da Arte Afro-Brasileira
Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Salvador, Brazil
29 March 2025 - 31 August 2025
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Eterno Vulnerável
Solar dos Abacaxis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
26 July 2025 - 01 November 2025
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Mulheres Atingidas por Barragens: bordando direitos
MASP
São Paulo, Brazil
11 April 2025 - 03 August 2025
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Bienal SACO1.2
Bienal SACO1.2
Antofagasta, Chile
17 July 2025 - 12 September 2025
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Torcer, amarrar e pender
Kunsthalle Lissabon
Lisboa, Portugal
27 June 2025 - 16 August 2025
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Ancestral Futures
Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 31 August 2025
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Echoes from a Near Future
La Mécanique générale
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 05 October 2025
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Magma in the Océan
The Rencontres d’Arles
Arles, France
07 July 2025 - 15 October 2025
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Grada Kilomba: Opera to a Black Venus
The first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Grada Kilomba nterrogates concepts of violence and repetition.
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Anaïs Cheleux : Relier l’identité caribéenne par la photographie et la performance
Marny Garcia Mommertz rend visite à Anaïs Cheleux dans son studio en Guadeloupe pour discuter du sirop de canne à sucre et de la Dak’art.
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C& Launches Patreon Membership
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C& Opinion
Five Things You Need to Know About the John Randle Center Before It Opens
C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.
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C& On Racism
Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
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Thoughts on Collective Archives
Four collectives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.
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Project Chama
Poetics of the Black Diaspora
Online platform brings together three Brazilian and one Sudanese artists to map poetics of the Diaspora in the Americas.
In Conversation With Igor Simões
A Look at Latin American Women’s Art
Igor Simões, one of the curators of the Mercosul Biennial, speaks in an interview about the exhibit postponed because of the current pandemic.
C& Center of Unfinished Business
Fatima El-Tayeb: Reclaiming Nefertiti
German scholar Fatima El-Tayeb explains how Europeans appropriate Black historical personalities and deny Africans their history.
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.
In Conversation with Charlene Bicalho
“Even without a key, I enter through the front door and plot escape routes”
Brazilian artist dialogues with various languages: from documentary webseries to photography, installation, and performance.
Conversation About the Museo La Tertulia
Cali, Between Trauma And Hope
Museo La Tertulia in Cali is one of the most original art museums in Colombia. We spoke to its curator, Alejandro Martín.
In Conversation with Joiri Minaya
Considerations on the “Tropical Identity”
The multidisciplinary artist from Santo Domingo appropriates colonial codes in order to invert relations of power.
Minga Decolonial Practices, Colombia
Creation as a Collective Process
An interdisciplinary Colombian collective wants to express the sentiments of the indigenous communities in order to recover ethnic and cultural memories.
Acervo
Museu Afro Brasil recebe obras de Marcelo D´Salete
Seis pranchas originais de Marcelo d'Salete, ilustrador e colaborador da C&AL, passam a fazer parte do acervo do Museu Afro Brasil.
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2025 Liu Shiming Artist Grants
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Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão, Casa da Cultura de Canaã dos Carajás
CCVM Apoia 2025
São Luís e Canaã dos Carajás, Brazil
Grants
Fundación Ama Amoedo
Fundación Ama Amoedo Grants 2025
José Ignacio, Uruguay
Call for proposals
Anita Schwartz Galeria de Arte
6ª edição do Projeto GAS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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