América Latina Magazine
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Representing the Desires of the Community in the Work of Jeff Cán Xicay

The Bahamas Pavilion returns to the 61st Venice Biennale after a thirteen year hiatus

Manuel Tzoc: Art as Embodied and Relational Poetry

Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar wins 11th edition of Artes Mundi Prize

Daniela Ortiz: Art as a Practice of International Solidarity

Three Artists Redefining the Human-Plant Relationship in Martinique and Guadeloupe

C&AL’s Highlights of 2025 You Might Have Missed

2025 in Review

Yina Jiménez Suriel and Raphael Fonseca are the artistic directors for Iceland’s Sequences Biennial

MAM São Paulo announces Diane Lima as Curator of the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Bodies in a state of eruption: the performance and metamorphosis of Malu Avelar

MACAS amplía su colección de arte afropuertorriqueño

Juana Valdés, Deborah Jack, and Jamilah Sabur reinterpret the Caribbean as sites of ecological memory and resistance. Valdés explores migration and Afro-Cuban identity through water as a metaphor for dislocation and healing, while Jack uses salt to evoke the sea as a witness to climate trauma; and Sabur draws on geology and language to excavate submerged Black and Indigenous histories, framing marronage as both physical flight and temporal transformation.

Caribbean Sounds: The Connective Possibilities of Radio

Confronting the Absence of Latin America in Conversations on African Diasporic Art

Macuxi Jaider Esbell: An Indigenous Life Cut Short by Epistemic Extractivism

Third Horizon curates a new Cinelogue program exploring decolonial cinema and liberatory imagination from the Caribbean

The Order of New Arts opens a new cultural space in the United States

Paris Noir: Pan-African Surrealism, Abstraction and Figuration

Comigo ninguém pode will be the exhibition that represents Brazil at the Biennale Arte 2026

Tadáskía Wins the 2025 K21 Global Art Award

Introducing the C& Cyclopedia

Irmandade Vilanismo: Bringing Poetry of the Periphery into the Bienal

Esperanza de León: Curating Through Community Knowledge

Librería Ireti, Havana, Cuba

Actress, activist, and a key figure in Craftivism — the intersection between textile art and political activism — Eva de Souza turns fabric into a site of memory and resistance. Her works address themes such as land, nationality, racism, police violence, and the condition of Black women, weaving embroidery into an instrument for subjective elaboration.

A k u z u r u: Art, Post-humanism and Healing

Not for Sale: How Black and Indigenous artists are rewriting the rules of the art market

Denis Maksaens: Glitch and Representation in the Caribbean

I Am Monumental: The Power of African Roots

The Entanglement of Migration, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonialism

Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces list of participants for its 36th edition

The Spiritual Technologies of Jamaican Maroons

Flowing Affections: Laryssa Machada’s Sensitive Geographies

Jesús Hilário-Reyes: Dissolving Notions of Group and Individual

Andrea Chung: Dematerialization to Subvert Commodification

The Forgotten Asian Histories of Latin America

Duality as an Invitation to Multiplicity

What’s Behind Decolonial Movements in Brazil?

MASP inaugura novo edifício

MASF: An Art Museum that Connects Territory and Communities

Biophillick: Connecting Ancestries Through Technology

Atlantic Threads

The Ancestral Travels of Gladys Kalichini and Maritea Dæhlin

Ana Pi: Knowledge Does Not Disappear

Celebration and Resistance in Ventura Profana’s Films

MUNCAB inaugura novo espaço dedicado à arte afro-brasileira

C& x NAM Critical Writing Workshop, New Orleans

Imagining perversely with Madeline Jiménez Santil’s Art

HOA Gallery is redesigned as a non-profit initiative

C&AL’s Highlights of 2024 You Might Have Missed

An Afro-Indigenous Reawakening: The Year in Review

Prince Claus Impact Award Presented to Six Artists from Diverse Disciplines

Caribbean Musicality in the Work of Valerie Brathwaite
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The World Tree [El árbol del mundo]

A Biennial that relates sound to space and bodies

Bring Home your C& Collectors Box!

38º Panorama da Arte Brasileira: Mil graus

Tessa Mars Links the Migratory Experience to Haitian Spirituality

Mercosul Biennial announces artists and spaces for its next edition

Puerto Caribe

The Art of Translating and Vice Versa

<em>Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography</em> explores how Cuban photographers have navigated artistic expression under a strict political regime that claimed to eliminate racism and sexism. Artists like Juan Carlos Alom and René Peña challenge these narratives through techniques such as expired film and Afro-Cuban religious symbolism.

Bienal das Amazônias anuncia curadora de sua segunda edição

Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice

Anaïs Cheleux: Connecting Caribbean Identity Through Photography and Performance

Orgullo Nacional

Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez

Afro-Indigenous Memory in the Work of Maria Lira Marques

THE SOUL STATION
Announcement of Second Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Congress

C& Artists’ Edition #5 Zohra Opoku

Amanda Carneiro: Curation That Operates Outside Dominant Systems

MUNCH Award: Rosana Paulino

Poetry: Ruth Ige

In Paris, Llinás experimented with Anaforuana, a Nigerian sign system. His work then evolved to integrate signs and textile patterns, creating a unique abstract visual language. Llinás' paintings are marked by complex layers and cultural memory, demonstrating early on the critical potential of Caribbean artists.

Mãos: 35 anos da Mão Afro-Brasileira

Sofía Salazar Rosales: A Poetic Journey Through the Material

Centro Cultural BanReservas and Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo x C& Critical Writing Workshop

Art and Identity in the Caribbean

Carnival, Body, and Territory

Johan Samboni: Rewriting Urban Histories

Introduction to the employee manual

Ismael David and the Foundations of Exu

Bienal das Amazônias: Portrait of a Complex Region

Caryl* Ivrisse Crochemar

Fidel Ernesto: Transitioning between the Digital and the Physical


