Gray Works

A Document and Meditation

Sandra Pinardi identifies “gray works” as works of art situated on a borderland that blurs the line between poetry and document, theory and aesthetic expression, and the subjective personal gesture and objective scientific research. Through selected examples from contemporary art, Pinardi elaborates upon the complexity and multivalence of “gray works” and their interconnections...

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Capturing the 19th Century Caribbean

Photographs by whom and for whom?

María Fernanda Domínguez Londoño examines two late-19th century photography albums depicting the Caribbean and, in asking the question “by whom and for whom?” they were made, discerns in the images a possible narrative, and arc in the itinerary of its compiler.

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Acquiring, Archiving, and Activating: Part 2

A look at how archival collections of Latin American art are activated in fourteen different institutions

In a two part investigation, Laura Braverman looks at a sample of fourteen public and private research institutes focused on Latin American art, and the ways in which they support and shape ongoing scholarship in the field.

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Phallocentric Specters

Notes on the (Absent) Female Presence in CCS-10

Among the notable attributes of the groundbreaking 1993 exhibition CCS-10: Current Venezuelan Art was its complete absence of female artists. Aixa Sánchez looks back on the era, the show’s impact, and the ways in which the show Paralelo 11, mounted the same year with all women artists, filled that and other gaps, and she muses on possible other inclusions from the vantage of retrospection.

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Acquiring, Archiving, and Activating: Part 1

A look at how archival collections of Latin American art are activated in fourteen different institutions

In a two part investigation, Laura Braverman looks at a sample of fourteen public and private research institutes focused on Latin American art, and the ways in which they support and shape ongoing scholarship in the field.

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Everything is Personal

From the Body: Allegories of the Feminine. Museo de Bellas Artes, 1998

Twenty years after seeing the exhibition in Caracas, Costanza de Rogatis muses about the conceptual foundations of "From the Body: Allegories of the Feminine."

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Waja Designs: Part 2

Portal to a parallel world in Makiritare trays

Part 2 of 2 of Charles Brewer-Carias’ introduction to the artistry of wawa basketry produced in the Amazonas region of Venezuela. The baskets’ seemingly abstract designs are actually expressions of the Watunna, the creation epic of the Makiritare people who weave them.

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Historic Preservation as the Future from the Perspective of the Present in the Past

Mexico City - The history of architectural preservation is very recent; however its limits—like those of cities—have expanded exponentially in the last hundred years...

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Ecuador: The Center of the World (and a Little Beyond)

ECUADOR - During the 17th and 18th centuries, several geodesic missions came to Ecuador, most of them from France. Their objective: to measure the center of the world...

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Waja Designs: Part 1

Portal to a parallel world in Makiritare trays

Part 1 of 2 of Charles Brewer-Carias’ introduction to the artistry of wawa basketry produced in the Amazonas region of Venezuela. The baskets’ seemingly abstract designs are actually expressions of the Watunna, the creation epic of the Makiritare people who weave them.

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Waiting in the Sun

On the filming of "Ojalá el sol me esconda"

Filmmaker Julio Hernández Cordón lets his collaborators take the reins in a “narco-punk western” that brings the gallery and the stage to the screen.

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A Look Inside the Diary of Auguste Morisot

Take a look inside the diary of Auguste Morisot with excerpts translated into English for the first time. This diary documents the Frenchman's travels along the Orinoco River from 1886–1887.

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