“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, [...]

  Leonora Carrington’s work reveals the influences of fourteenth-century Italian painting, Celtic literary sources, and English nursery rhymes. She spent many years in Mexico, drawn to its symbolic imagery. Big Badger Meets the Domini Boys combines humans and animals as did the fairy tales she heard while growing up. She often uses animals to represent the [...]

Dario Escobar – Side and Back from kamel mennour on Vimeo. Darío Escobar is known for his sculptural recontextualization of everyday objects. Born in Guatemala (1971), his Catholic background and interest in local history became sources of inspiration for a body of work that combines mass-produced objects, craft techniques, and religious iconography. His work is [...]

    Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso “Nous nous sommes trouvés” Grand Palais, Galeries nationales 16 March 2011 – 6 June 2011 An exhibition organised by the Rmn-Grand Palais as part of 2011 Année des Outre-mer. It takes place under the patronage of Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic. It will subsequently be shown [...]

Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) is a Brazilian artist. Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.[2] She studied social communication at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso (FACHA), Rio De Janeiro [...]

Cuban born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the collabortive duo Guerra de la Paz . Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti, Guerra De La Paz make their sculptures from the discarded items of daily life. Viewing their practice as [...]

    Osvaldo Budet (b. 1979, Puerto Rico) currently living and working in Leipzig/Berlin, fellow of the Leipzig International Art Programme. Growing up in a colony (Puerto Rico) a “Third World” country has made me conscious and curious of the relationships between figures of authority and the powerless. I see my art-practice as an analogy [...]

Burned Map, Horacio Zabala (Argentinian, b. 1943)1974 Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York By Al Rudis Staff Writer Posted: 03/12/2011 04:25:41 PM PST Updated: 03/12/2011 04:26:09 PM PST   Cecilia Fajardo-Hill wants people to stop thinking of Latin American artists in a special way. But even though she argues that they aren’t [...]

Watch a video of artist Arturo Herrera and Curator and Americas Society Visual Arts Director Gabriela Rangel discuss the process of putting together the exhibition Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding), at Americas Society art gallery. The artist also gives a tour of selected pieces in the exhibition. Video produced by David Gacs. New York, January [...]

By: Valentina Tintori March, 2011 Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977. She received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College (Boston, MA) in 1999 and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) in 2005. After teaching photography for a number of years, Susana now dedicates her [...]