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After the Revolution Triumphed
As our group of museum professionals traveled through Havana last week, the phrase most repeated by all of our official, government-approved guides was “After the Revolution triumphed…” This was...
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Havana Street Art – Sanctioned and Unsanctioned
Havana street art is a mix of fun and funky unsanctioned art, and official government propaganda that touts the success and ‘heroes’ of the Revolution. The government sanctioned art takes the form not...
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Sights and Sounds of Callejón Hamel
Located in an alleyway between Calles Hospital and Aramburu, in the barrio Cayo Hueso, Callejón de Hamel is the creation of Cuban artist Salvador Gonzalez Escalona. Born in Camaguey in 1948, he began...
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Peru welcomes back Inca artefacts from Yale University
In November, Yale University signed in agreement to return upwards of 5,000 Inca artifacts, comprised of stone tools, ceramics and human and animal bones, that had been removed from Machu Picchu...
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Marta Minujin Builds a Spiraling Tower Made from Thousands of Books in Buenos...
via Marta Minujin Builds a Spiraling Tower Made from Thousands of Books in Buenos Aires.
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MAM Makes Key Hire
In January 2011, the Miami Art Museum (MAM) began construction on a new building in the 29-acre Museum Park overlooking Biscayne Bay, Miami’s urban redesign for the area now known as Bicentennial...
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Nicanor Parra Awarded Cervantes Prize
Chilean poet Nicanor Parra has received the Cervantes Prize (Premio Miguel de Cervantes) which honors lifetime achievement for outstanding Spanish language writers. BBC News – Nicanor Parra awarded...
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2011. If it...
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It Takes a Village: Rivane Neuenschwander’s Participatory Art
I’m loving Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander’s participatory art in the mid-career survey of her work featured in A Day Like Any Other. Currently on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, it...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez | Derivative Works No More | Cultural Conversation by...
This is such great news out of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. After 10 years of hard work and sleuthing throughout Latin American and the US midwest, the International Center for the Arts of the...
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