The Phillips Collection presents the first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana). This long-overdue exhibition examines the artist’s prolific yet largely unknown career that spans almost 70 years, featuring more than 60 works including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, and sculptural pieces, alongside illustrations, design sketches, and ephemera. The exhibition traces Sánchez’s artistic journeyContinue reading “Opens Today: Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, until 19 May 2019”
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Closing soon: 2018 Turbine Hall Installation by Tania Bruguera, Tate Modern, London, until 24 February 2019
The Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) has been selected to create the 2018 Hyundai commission for Tate Modern’s central four-stories high Turbine Hall. She is best known for her socially and politically engaged installations, which have in the past addressed topics of migration, border control and institutional power structures. She has created a uniqueContinue reading “Closing soon: 2018 Turbine Hall Installation by Tania Bruguera, Tate Modern, London, until 24 February 2019”
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York
Exhibition: Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 New York, Museum of Modern Art March 29, 2015–July 19, 2015 Brings together models, drawings and archival photographs as well as new photography of key buildings, not only those by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and Mexican Luis Barragán but also less well known structures by Cuban architects, suchContinue reading “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York”
Exhibition: Imagining New Worlds: Wifredo Lam, José Parlá, Fahamu Pecou
Exhibition: Imagining New Worlds: Wifredo Lam, José Parlá, Fahamu Pecou High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 14 February – 24 May 2015 Retrospective (organised by the McMullen Art Museum, Boston College) of the Cuban twentieth-century artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) alongside responses to his legacy by contemporary artists. Traces his career from his early studies inContinue reading “Exhibition: Imagining New Worlds: Wifredo Lam, José Parlá, Fahamu Pecou”
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