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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
The Artists Forging Ecological Ties in Female Fugivity and Marronage
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
In this experimental text, author Sherae Rimpsey responds to the poetics and interiority she experienced in a major Paris exhibition of works by African, African American, and Caribbean artists.
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
Eva de Souza: Textile Experimentation as Poetic Protest
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
With a title derived from the poem “Da calma e do silêncio” by Conceição Evaristo, the 36th Bienal de São Paulo brings together 120 participants at the Bienal Pavilion and five more at Casa do Povo, proposing an urgent reflection on humanity, nature, and listening.
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
Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso
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
In their artistic practices Gladys Kalichini and Maritea Dæhlin explore memory, ancestry, and spirituality. While Kalichini examines erased Zambian women’s histories and water as a living archive, Daehlin blends her Norwegian-Cameroonian roots and sleep rituals to create vulnerable and transformative spaces of trust.
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
A Call to History
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]
In this conversation, Raphael Fonseca and Yina Jiménez Suriel present “estalo” (snap) as a conceptual framework for the Biennial, which relates sound to space, bodies and historical cultural practices. The curators also highlight collaboration as a central practice, involving multiple voices and geographies.
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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
Navigating Scarcity, Race and Religion in Cuban Photography
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
79-year-old Maria Lira Marques – also known as Lira Marques –, has over 40 years of artistic production. The artist and activist hails from the Jequitinhonha Valley, in Minas Gerais and her art, deeply rooted in ancestral knowledge and traditions, critiques societal violence and poverty while preserving the rich cultural heritage of her region. Marques uses art as a vehicle to critique violence and poverty, while also preserving ancestral techniques in her clay sculptures and paintings.
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
Guido Llinás: the Incredible Story of an Afro-Cuban Artist in Paris
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
In his work, Samboni revisits photographic tradition and identity within both real and fictional contexts, reflecting on the relationship between users and characters in video games. His painting seeks to counteract digital im materiality with physical materiality, reflecting social and cultural concerns such as protests and power dynamics.
Introduction to the employee manual
Ismael David and the Foundations of Exu
La Chola Poblete: Guaymallén
Bienal das Amazônias: Portrait of a Complex Region
Caryl* Ivrisse Crochemar
Fidel Ernesto: Transitioning between the Digital and the Physical
Paul-Aimé William: Afro-Feminism and Curation in Guiana-Abya-Yala
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Keila Sankofa: Fictionalizing Gaps of the Past
Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art
Conceptual Team for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo Announced
Raily Yance and the Power of Everyday Objects
Rio Art Museum (MAR) presents story of Brazilian funk music through rhythm’s constant reinvention.