Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Orixás
Read more: OrixásImagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor…
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Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in Cuba
Read more: Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in CubaMEXICO CITY — Of the half-dozen pieces that form Tania Bruguera’s series “Tatlin’s Whisper,” the one that the Cuban government silenced may have resounded most. An attempt by Ms. Bruguera, a New York-based Cuban artist, to stage an open-mike performance…
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South American Traffic Mimes
Read more: South American Traffic Mimes“Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city’s eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting…
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Read more: Ana Mendieta and Earth ArtThe works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. —- Have you ever caught a still moment in nature where it’s so eerily calm, it feels as if…
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Read more: Ana Mendieta and Earth ArtThe works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. —- Ana Mendieta “Creek,” 1974. Super 8 Film, Colour, Silent.Courtesy of: Galerie Lelong & Co. Ana Mendieta was the…
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Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships
Read more: Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria) BUENOS AIRES — Dictatorships and armed conflicts have been all too familiar in South America’s recent histories. To take stock of these experiences, in 2016 the…
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Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality
Read more: Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial InequalityThe Shifting View on Anthropofagia Tarsila is closely associated with the establishment of the Brazilian art movement known as cultural “cannibalism,” or “Anthropofagia”: the then-radical idea that a truly Brazilian art would emerge by ingesting all the different cultures that…
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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Read more: General Idea and the AIDS crisesThe Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Read more: Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall. They came this Monday to participate…