Debate

August 12, 2016

Ethnography and Contemporary Art

Sabrina Moura

In recent years, the Brazilian art scene witnessed a number of exhibitions that sought to question the national artistic canon...

June 6, 2016

Private Collections: To Build or Not to Build?

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

At the invitation of Patty Cisneros, a group of her art world associates and friends weigh in on how best to ensure the longevity of private collections.

January 27, 2016

Will Brazil's Cultural Scene Thrive Despite Recession?

Charlotte Burns

Brazil was booming for the first decade of the new century. In 2001, it was christened as one of the four BRIC nations along with Russia, India and China...

September 29, 2015

Does the Public have a Right to Culture?

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

This past July, a German court ruled that a publisher must pay the family of Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, copyright royalties for the publisher’s use of Goebbels’ diary. During this same month, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz threatened to withdraw their art works on loan...

July 9, 2015

The Tropical: Resistance or Cultural Tourism?

Carla Acevedo-Yates, Cristiana Tejo

The "tropical” has helped to increase visibility in the global art market for contemporary art produced in Latin America (particularly from the Caribbean, Central America, and Brazil)...

June 10, 2015

Economy of Friendship, Chevere?

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Anyone navigating the Latin American contemporary art scene will undoubtedly encounter the phenomenon of the economy of friendship...

May 6, 2015

The Havana Biennial: To Engage or to Boycott?

Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

With the detention in Havana of one of Cuba’s most visible artists: Tania Bruguera, several people in the art world are calling for a boycott of the forthcoming Bienal de la Habana as an act of protest...

November 3, 2014

What Would It Mean to Exercise Art?

Rivet

We invite you to consider whether, in your context, it makes sense to think about art and exercise, or art as an exercise?

November 3, 2014

Is Art an Act of Learning?

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

What kind of comprehension can be had of contemporary arts education today? What are the forms of learning art, and of learning with art?

October 9, 2014

Does art criticism in Latin America even matter?

Laurie Rojas

From New York to Berlin the art world can’t stop talking about the crisis of art criticism, but what has been said about its status in Latin America?

September 2, 2014

Who and What is Arts Education For?

Luis Camnitzer

We may consider art as a way of thinking, acquiring, and ordering knowledge with a boundless use of our imagination, to make connections...

July 16, 2014

What Does the Other Do?