When Manifesta Landed in Barcelona
By Nekane Aramburu 1. When Women Strike the World Stops, 2020 © Claire Fontaine, Vegap, Barcelona 2024. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev Every two years since 1993, the International Foundation Manifesta has moved to a different European city, where, funded by local public institutions, it organizes a series of ephemeral exhibitions […]
Feminine Gazes on the Body in The Kaluz Collection.
An Exercise to Reconcile Ourselves with Our Bodies By Blanca Meneses Exhibition curated by Karen Cordero R. Tolzú Cultural Center in Toluca, México Artists: Manuela Ballester, Angelina Beloff, Rocío Caballero, Carmen Chami, Olga Costa, Elvira Gascón, María Izquierdo, Mary Martín, Fanny Rabel, Josefa Sanromán, Lucinda Urrusti, Cordelia Urueta, Catalina Vallarta, Remedios Varo, Teresa Velázquez, Puri […]
WOMEN AT WAR
Curated by Monika Fabijanska Women in War opens at the North Dakota Museum of Art on January 16, 2025. This powerful exhibition showcases the work of leading contemporary women artists from Ukraine, including Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva, and Alla Horska (1929-1970). Spanning media from painting to video, it explores the gendered perspectives […]
Not Seeing with the Eyes and Erotic Painting
A Conversation between Daniel Santiago Salguero and Juana Anzellini.[1] Daniel: Juana, let’s talk about social media. Juana: I use social media to give visibility to what I do. What happens to me, or what I make happen, is like a record—an archive. She also tells me that she conducts interviews. She’s now on volume four; […]
THE BOYS CLUB
Susan Inglett Gallery By D. Dominick Lombardi SUSAN WEIL. Color 11, 1999 Acrylic, charcoal and watercolor on paper. 60 1/2 x 66 1/4 in Copyright The Artist. Courtesy of JDJ Gallery and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. THE BOYS CLUB, curated by Cortney Connolly for the Susan Inglett Gallery, is a timely and essential exhibition of […]
Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood at La MaMa NYC
By Yohanna M. Roa Concept, direction, and performance by Rafika Chawishe Rafika appears in the dim light of the stage, her bodily posture making us feel that she carries on her shoulders the weight of human violence: the intoxicating joy of the hero, the exacerbation of war, the cries of abused women, and the mourning […]
Loop Barcelona 2024
A Celebration of Video Art and Social Transformation Thomas Radin Institut del Teatre. From November 11 to 23, Barcelona became the global epicenter of video art and artists cinema with the 22nd edition of Loop Barcelona, an internationally renowned platform dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities of the moving image. Since its inception in 2003, […]
Networks in Movement: Mobile Coordinates (Mexico, 2024)
Beneath Tides Column By fernanda ramos mena Coordenadas móviles. Redes de colaboración entre mujeres en la cultura y el arte (1975-1985). México: CIEG/UNAM, FIEBRE Ediciones, Project Office, Editorials, 2024. Register by Alessandro Rivera. Reading Mobile Coordinates: Networks of Collaboration Among Women in Culture and Art (1975-1985) is like unfolding a map filled with unexpected paths, […]
Contemporary Art, Unlearning, and Handcrafted Textiles
Interview with Jorge González Santos, visual artistSpoken PortraitBy Daniel Santiago Salguero Leer en Español These are notes from a WhatsApp phone conversation between Bogotá and San Juan, Puerto Rico, which was held despite interruptions caused by lousy weather[1]. Jorge González, Lecturas bajo la cojoba (Readings under the cojoba). 2019. Photo Max Toro Puerto Rico Jorge […]
Mourning Rituals and Archiving Practices Around the Exhibition ¨I Started Painting When My Grandmother Began to Lose Her Memory¨
The Unruled Column By Kekena Corvalán Leer en español Camila Barcellone, Tati Cabral, Kekena Corvalán, Paola Ferraris, Anahí Fiorella Gómez and Celeste Medrano. I want to address our practices of “artchive” as a form of vitality that sustains us and allows us to inhabit memory, celebration, and connection. This reflection arises from the exhibition that […]