La Práctica: Fellowship Program at Beta Local, Call for Applications.
Visiting artist Tim Portlock talks to La Práctica about the relationship between his work and the conventions of 19th century American painting traditions. 2012 Beta-Local is an organization and a...
View ArticleRaquel Torres Arzola at AREA
Installation View. The Thousand and One Nights. There are times when unexpectedly an artist breaks away from a trend. Puerto Rico, an island with many creative minds but few institutional frameworks to...
View ArticleGuillermo Alvarez-Charvel: Anatomies
"The body can be compared to a work of art." Maurice Merleau-Ponty Guillermo Álvarez Charvel uses a simple folding of a sheet of paper as a fundamental creative act for the composition of objects from...
View ArticleMedios y Ambientes at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
Nayda Collazo-Llorens, REVERB, Installation View. Medios y Ambientes includes the work of eight artists who use and expand notions of space to challenge the preconceived limits of objects and artistic...
View ArticleAlter Ego, Roberto Paradise by Nicole Rodríguez
“I’m certain they all thought I was a moron,” says Francisco "Tito" Rovira Rullán as we sit in his office on the second story of his San Juan gallery Roberto Paradise; his gallery manager chit-chats...
View ArticleOn Art, Politics and Athletics: Javier Bosques & Norma Vila Rivero at METRO
Javier Bosques. Nueve Policías, 48” x 56”, 35mm photo in digitial C-Print What is gained by the aesthetization of crime, politics and/or activism? In Puerto Rico, just as in many other countries around...
View ArticleMaking sure the exchange is made: Bianca Ortiz Declet on Trailer Park Proyects
Maja Ruznic This past August 9th as part of its monthly activities Trailer Park Proyects opened two new individual exhibitions: “Conglomeraciones Cínicas” by Ivan Girona and “Messengers” by Maja...
View ArticleOn the cusp by Nicole Rodríguez
While there exists endless research, and countless indexes and catalogs surrounding an artist’s quantifiable completed work, unrealized or half-baked utopian ideas abandoned at the worktable rarely...
View ArticleClara T. López on Zoe Leonard at Murray Guy
My first encounter with Zoe Leonard’s work was, paradoxically, with her writing. I say paradoxically because Leonard is mostly known for her photographs and not for her writings. However, I met her...
View ArticleTim Bergstrom, Melissa Brown y Summer Wheat en TTP y Roberto Paradise
La importación de talentos fue exitosa en dosis triple con la iniciativa de Alexis Figueroa y su proyecto Trailer Park Proyects, quien en colaboración con Galería Roberto Paradise, presentaron el...
View ArticleRio de Janeiro: ATREVIDA – Revisão crítica da exposição artevida
Organizada em quatro seções – corpo, política, arquivo, parque - a exposição artevida, com curadoria de Adriano Pedrosa e Rodrigo Moura, incluiu uma grande quantidade e qualidade de trabalhos vindos...
View ArticleDel campo socio-urbano al visual: La periferia como espacio simbólico-cultural
Eder Castillo: Mecánica Nacional (vista exterior) Artistas/Videos: Jason Mena: Fault Line (línea de falla), Eder Castillo: Mecanica Nacional, Karmelo Bermejo: -X, Guillermo Vargas “Habacuc”: Persona...
View ArticleHavana Part 1: Some Shows and a Studio Visit
View of Havana from the roof of Espacio Tercer Piso. It’s so easy to fall into a cliché when trying to describe a city such as Havana, but one cannot help but feel as if in a time warp; a time where...
View ArticleChile: 7 days in Santiago, 1 day in Valparaíso
During the month of March I was invited by R.I.C. (Residencias de Investigación Curatorial, a project initiated by curator Alexia Tala and collector Pedro Montes) to visit Santiago, Chile for one week...
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