Debate

October 25, 2019

Re/Neo/De/ Colonial Art: What’s in a Name?

Over the past few years, universities and museums have been turning away from the term “Colonial Art” to describe the art and artifacts made under the Spanish and Portuguese dominion of most of the Americas during the 16th–19th centuries...

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...