Modernity in Black and White
For years, one of my favorite pieces in the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) was the iconic Abaporu (1928), by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral: a canvas…
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Theme: Arts and Humanities
Untold Stories of the Past and Future
English + Español
As I read Los comentarios reales de los Incas (1609), the work of the great Peruvian chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, I could easily imagine him as a young man, reunited with…
My cry into the world
English + Español
It was September 20, 2019. “One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred….” That was how we felt and that was how we counted in the face of the irremediable absences provoked…
A Space of Art and Memory
Fragmentos: Espacio de Arte y Memoria is a stunningly beautiful counter-monument dedicated to the memory of the Colombian civil war and the suffering of all its victims. It was created in…
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Joiri Minaya’s Cloaking of the Statue of Christopher Columbus
Miami protesters sprayed trails of red paint on two monuments in Bayfront Park after the May 25,, 2020, murder of George Floyd. On the statue of Christopher Columbus, they…
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