Reviews
ARCO 2026: ANALYZING ITS IDENTITY AND MODEL IN THE GLOBAL MARKET
ARCOmadrid 2026 appears to reinforce its position in the global art market by consolidating a distinctive identity in contrast to the major internationalized art fairs, with Latin America as its anchor. Its capacity to generate cultural and market narratives from this positioning has been key to understanding its current role and evaluating the potential risks of its model.
LATIN AMERICAN PROPOSALS AT CONTEMPORARY ART NOW: DECIPHERING A FUTURE
Contemporary Art Now in Madrid focuses on contemporary painting and highlights the value of Latin American art through the FOCO LATAM program. The proposals by regional artists presented at the fair reveal a diverse panorama, featuring material explorations, cultural memory, and contemporary imaginaries.
LATIN AMERICAN ART AT ARCO IN 10 CLUES AND 3 CONCEPTS
We propose an overview of Latin American art presented at ARCO through ten proposals that illustrate and outline current tendencies, where critical and experimental perspectives, nature, materiality and organic processes shape different languages through which to address key themes.
11 VISIONS OF LATIN AMERICAN GALLERIES AT ARCO
We explored the visions and practices of eleven Latin American galleries to gauge the pulse of the region’s art and its status at ARCO, with proposals that, without ignoring the commercial side, affirm tradition, experimentation, and diversity of languages as a common hallmark.
DISCOVERING WHERE THE SUN TAKES REFUGE AND TURNING IT INTO ART
Jun Martínez uses artistic practice as a space for reflection; the Mexican gallery adhesivo hosts one of them.
CURATORIAL WORK AND PROPOSALS IN PERFILES/LATIN AMERICAN ART AT ARCO
The curated program at ARCOmadrid once again provides a prominent space for Latin American galleries and artists at the fair. With José Esparza Chong Cuy leading the new edition, the program exudes a diversity of approaches and realities, raising questions while simultaneously serving as a key opportunity for visibility.
POTATOES AND PREMONITIONS: GRIPPO’S SUBTLETY AT ESPACIO FAN
The voice of a conceptual artist from the last century resonates as if his agenda were the same as today’s. Among works and sketches, the exhibition reminds us that “there is nothing more real than a potato.”
DISPLACEMENT AND ATTENTION IN KATE ARAOZ’S INTIMIST PAINTING
Part 2
DISPLACEMENT AND ATTENTION IN KATE ARAOZ’S INTIMIST PAINTING
“I think painting is the possibility of creating and materializing in the physical world something that did not exist before.” — Kate Araoz, 20251
GRAPHIC DESIGN, JUDGMENT, AND VISUAL CULTURE IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA
The visual culture of the Caribbean and Latin America cannot be understood as a homogeneous or stable system; it is a territory shaped by flows, displacements, and symbolic overlaps in which images not only circulate, but constantly negotiate their meaning. Within this configuration, graphic design occupies a particularly distinctive position, as it does not function merely as a tool of mediation, but rather as a practice of judgment that intervenes in how the region represents, interprets, and projects itself.
EVERY CENTER OF QUISQUEYA HENRÍQUEZ
The Complutense Art Center explores the work of Quisqueya Henríquez, a practice rich both technically and conceptually, which employs social critique, creolization, and multidisciplinary semantics as analytical tools for the discourse of the Caribbean.
NOTES ON GABRIEL VALANSI AT DOT FIFTYONE GALLERY, MIAMI
LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN SPAIN: NEW NOTES FROM AN ONGOING RESEARCH
By Mónica Sotos
What are the successive diasporas of Latin American artists to Spain about, from the final years prior to the turn of the twenty-first century to the present? Article 2 of a series of 3.
THE NEW SPACE OF THE CARTIER FOUNDATION AND 40 YEARS OF ITS COLLECTION
By Patricia Avena Navarro
The Cartier Foundation settles into Place du Palais-Royal in Paris to write a new chapter in its history at the heart of the capital, inaugurating its new space by exhibiting the “must-haves” of forty years of collecting.
ANA MENDIETA BACK TO THE SOURCE
The Marian Goodman Gallery in New York is presenting its inaugural exhibition Ana Mendieta Back to the Source. Thoughtfully and beautifully installed, the exhibition presents a significant body of work from 1972 to 1985 that includes photographs, the installation Ñañigo Burial, designs on leaves, drawings of hands and female figures on paper with ink, graphite and wash, ten films, and two vitrines with diverse personal items.
THE IMMENSE AND THE INTIMATE, A MAGICAL RECORD TO VISIT AT MALBA PUERTOS
Between the exposed Misiones jungle and the revealed basin of the Río de la Plata, the museum proposes a journey through the work of Florencia Böhtlingk this summer.
FOUR WORKS BY FOUR ARTISTS AT THE SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
It is not easy to compose a path through monumental works inside a monumental space. At the 36th São Paulo Biennial, the artists invited by Bonaventure de Soh Bejen Ndikung and his team, present large-scale works whose textures and forms sometimes speak to each other linearly, and other times through oblique movements.
MIAMI ART WEEK SPOTLIGHT: OSCAR MARTÍNEZ
By Violeta Lozada
At this year’s Miami Art Week, a surge of Latin artistic energy is reshaping the city’s creative landscape. One standout exhibition is Oscar Martínez’s new sculptural installation on Lincoln Road demonstrating the depth, range, and confidence with which Latin artists are stepping into one of the world’s most influential art gatherings.
TATIANA BLASS: HALF UNDERGROUND TORNADO
By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher
THE NOISY PRESENT AND THE EVERLASTING SILENCE AT DEPARTAMENTO 112
At the Argentine gallery, Pariente by Hans Petersen and Redondita by Juana Cravero engage in dialogue: two exhibitions that explore what we have turned into habit, and the desire that never fades away.
THREE PERSPECTIVES THAT EXPAND PHOTOGRAPHY AT PINTA BAPHOTO 2025
Blurring the boundaries between image, performance, and experimentation, projects by Gustavo Nieto, Nicola Costantino, and Donna Conlon stand out in a new edition of Pinta BAphoto, returning to La Rural with proposals that expand the scope of photography today.
BEYOND THE BLUE CHIPS: ERIC ALFARO AND THE RISE OF EMOTIONALLY RESONANT ART
By Violeta Lozada
As the global art market recalibrates, a quiet but powerful shift is rising. Collectors are increasingly moving away from multimillion-dollar blue-chip purchases and towards living artists whose work offers emotional resonance, personal connection, and affordability. Cuban painter Eric Alfaro is a standout in this new wave, an artist whose work combines painterly sophistication with accessible pricing and deeply human themes.
NOTES ON A PICTORICAL SURFACE — MARINA PEREZ SIMÃO: TUNING FORK
By Mario Gioia, art critic and independent curator
FOUR WORKS BY ANATOLE SADERMAN TO REMEMBER AT PINTA BAPHOTO
Simple, yet with complex movement, the artist managed to capture what his sensitive eyes perceived, and today his name is part of the local art history as a reference in photographic portraiture.
GATHERING THE SCATTERED: LUNA PALAZZOLO-DABOUL’S POETIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEMORY
By Violeta Lozada
In her solo exhibition ‘Scattered Pieces’, Miami-based artist Luna Palazzolo-Daboul transforms the act of scattering into a meditation on memory, labor, and belonging. Installed in Paradise Plaza (151 NE 41st Street, Suite 133), the site-specific work unfolds across the floor as an archive of fragments, each one a piece of the artist’s evolving journey.
ARTBO 2025: CARTOGRAPHIES OF MARKET, IDENTITY, AND NATURE
By Candelaria Penido
ARTBO, Bogotá’s international art fair held from September 25 to 28, once again reaffirmed its position as one of Latin America’s most relevant platforms. It brought together 46 galleries and more than 180 artists across the five floors of Ágora Convention Center. With a program intertwining market and thought, this year’s edition emphasized diversity in formats, trajectories, and geographies, offering a multifaceted map of contemporary regional production.
WALKING THROUGH THE BODY: AD MINOLITIS MIAMI INSTALLATION
By Violeta Lozada
In the heart of the Miami Design District, Argentine artist Ad Minoliti has transformed a stairwell into something unexpected: a living, breathing body. On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM, the Miami Design District will host the official unveiling of Pink Spatial Microbiota at Buick Building.
LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN SPAIN: NOTES FROM A RESEARCH PROJECT
By Mónica Sotos
What are the successive diasporas of Latin American artists to Spain from the final years before the beginning of the 21st century to the present about? Article 1 of a 3-part series.
“BATUCADA,” MARCELO EVELIN’S PERFORMANCE: A STORY
In Casa do Povo's basement, Marcelo Evelin’s performance unleashes a ritual of bodies, rhythms, and nudity that allows no anticipation. An experience that demands looking, breathing, and moving through the present without guide or return.
SÃO PAULO: A JOURNEY THROUGH GALLERIES, STUDIOS, AND RESIDENCIES
Like any big city, in São Paulo everything happens at once: galleries, residencies, studios, and exhibitions weave together in an electric network that nurtures local artists and connects them with global circuits. The city works like a node: intense, vibrant, inexhaustible.
ANGLES, CROSSINGS, MOVEMENT, JUXTAPOSITION: THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
The São Paulo Biennial opened its 36th edition with a mix of proposals that invite a return to the senses: textures are highlighted, sounds resonate, and at times even scents appear. With a large number of commissioned works, the curatorial approach—led by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung—was guided by several threads, all centered on the idea of “humanity as practice”.
ELLIOT AND ERICK JIMENEZ: TWINS WITH A VISION
By Violeta Lozada
For the first time, twin brothers Elliot and Erick Jiménez step into a museum as an artistic duo, presenting a body of work that is both personal and deeply spiritual. Identical twins with identical passions, they work through photography to explore themes of memory, identity, and tradition, but with a profound layer of meaning rooted in their spiritual practice of Lucumí, a syncretic Afro-Caribbean religion born in late nineteenth-century Cuba. Emerging from the fusion of Yoruba, Catholicism, and Spiritism, Lucumí continues to shape lives across generations of the Cuban diaspora, and in the case of the Jiménez brothers, it has become both inspiration and guide.
THE HYPNOTIC NATURE OF AN EXPOSED STAGECRAFT
Just steps from the door, I heard the echoes of Tramoya. Curiosity guided my body toward the gallery, stealing from me the chance to prepare for the detours and fragmentations the works would provoke—and for the attempts to piece together those fragments within my own body.
