Memorialization and Presence: Capturing the Legacies of the Young Lords in New York
Arnaldo Manuel Cruz-Malavé
This essay reviews the three-venue exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, which opened in July of 2015 at the Bronx Museum of the...
The Regime of the Visible
Kristina Benjocki
The Regime of Visible, in the form of a pocket map, introduces two ways of exploring Cannerberg, a small hill situated between Maastricht, the Netherlands,...
The Politics of Color in the Arctic Landscape: Blackness at the Center of Frederic Edwin Church’s Aurora Borealis and the Legacy of 19th-Century Limits of Representation
Noelle Belanger, Anna Westerstahl Stenport
American painter Frederic Edwin Church's monumental oil painting Aurora Borealis (1865) presents a stark contrast to the dominant Western tradition of representing the Arctic as...
Mute Cries: Louis Althusser Between Roberto Álvarez Ríos and Wifredo Lam
Bécquer Seguín
This introductory essay examines the role of two articles on the Cuban painters Roberto Álvarez Ríos and Wifredo Lam, “A Young Cuban Painter Before Surrealism:...
Homebound: The Art of Public Space in Contemporary Cuba
Paloma Duong
Despite the home's long history as a locus of cultural and political action in Cuba, serious studies of its informal residential culture are only now...
Oscar Bony’s La Familia Obrera: The Labor and the Work
Niko Vicario
This article analyzes Oscar Bony's work La Familia Obrera (1968), in which a working class family sat on view in the gallery of the Instituto...
