Notes related to United States
TATIANA BLASS: HALF UNDERGROUND TORNADO
By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher
LAWRENCE LEK'S WORLD IN MIAMI, WHERE MACHINES SEEK MEANING
The Bass presents an immersive expansion of the artist's fictional universe, where sentient vehicles confront questions of memory, purpose, and control inside a corporate system designed to repair—and restrain—them.
PINTA MIAMI RETURNS TO COCONUT GROVE FOR ITS 19th EDITION
A leading platform for Ibero and Latin American art, the fair brings together galleries, curators, and emerging talents for a dynamic edition shaped by new voices and cross-regional perspectives.
TARIFFS AT THE BORDER: WHEN ART MEETS TRADE POLICY
By María Sancho-Arroyo
How new U.S. trade policies are reshaping the movement of art and design, blurring the line between cultural object and commercial good.
RAUSCHENBERG’S PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROACH AND LATIN AMERICAN ROCI SERIES, AT JUAN MARCH FOUNDATION
By Álvaro de Benito
The Juan March Foundation in Madrid presents an extensive and analytical exhibition on Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, USA, 1925–Captiva, USA, 2008), focusing on the use of image and photography in his work. The exhibition, structured from a novel curatorial perspective, reinterprets the production of one of the great masters of contemporary art, highlighting it as the outcome of an essentially photographic practice.
DEMOCRATIC AND OPEN MAIL ART: TRANSGRESSORS IN CALIFORNIA
An exhibition tracing how generations of artists transformed the postal system into a space for creative freedom and political action, challenging censorship and borders.
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.
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.
JOSÉ CARLOS DIAZ IS PAMM'S NEW CHIEF CURATOR
The curator returns to the city where he began his career to take on the role of Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a vision focused on accessibility and intercultural dialogue.
LINES OF BELONGING AT MoMA: MEMORY, COMMUNITY, AND FUTURE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
The show brings together 13 artists from Mexico City, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, and New Orleans to explore the power of connection across generations and geographies.
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.
INTERVIEW TO ALEX NUÑEZ AND HER VISION OF FLORIDA'S PLAYFUL WILD
By Violeta Lozada
For Miami-born artist Alex Nuñez, inspiration often springs from the familiar yet unsettling details of everyday life in South Florida. Her latest project, "There’s a Gator in the Pool", takes a symbol that outsiders often fear and transforms it into a playful, layered metaphor for life as a Floridian. The exhibition is on view at the Faena Art Project Room in Miami Beach through September 14th.
MIAMI PHOTOGRAPHIC OBSERVATORY OPENED WITH ARTIST RAMÓN WILLIAMS
The new center promotes residencies and curatorial projects focused on visual research and artistic production, building an alternative archive on Miami’s urban transformation.
NEW PEDAGOGIES AT THE HEART OF MoMA PS1
LA ESCUELA___ debuts in the United States with a proposal that turns education into a creative and collective experience.
ABOUT ROOTS AND RESISTENCE AT GFS, NEW JERSEY
Salvador Jiménez-Flores’ exhibition explores migration, resilience, and hybrid identities through murals, sculptures, and site-specific works.
THE ARMORY SHOW 2025: LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS AND NEW TRENDS
By Violeta Lozada
The Armory Show 2025 returns to the Javits Center in New York, reaffirming its status as one of the most influential events in modern and contemporary art since nineteen ninety-four. Every year, the fair brings together leading international galleries to showcase innovative works, with a strong focus on curatorial excellence, engaging public programming, and bold artistic activations.
GYULA KOSICE: INTERGALACTIC, AN EXHIBITION THAT RESHAPES HIS VISIONARY CONTRIBUTION
By Adriana Herrera Téllez, PhD
Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic is one of those axial exhibitions that unsettle the boundaries of the usual narratives of art history by incorporating visions that broaden our understanding of the contributions of foundational artists who, like this creator—born in today’s Slovenia in 1924 and later naturalized in Argentina—have not been sufficiently incorporated into the global narrative of concrete art.
COCO FUSCO'S ACTIVISM TAKES OVER MACBA
By Álvaro de Benito
Barcelona's MACBA presents I Have Learned to Swim on Dry Land, the first monographic exhibition that a Spanish institution dedicates to Cuban-American artist and activist Coco Fusco (New York, USA, 1960). The exhibition, titled after the opening sentence of Virgilio Peña's short story Swimming, offers a journey through several thematic nuclei revolving around words, language, and silence, as well as the semiotics and symbolism entwined with these concepts.
THE AMERICAN DREAM, REIMAGINED BY DIMITHRY VICTOR
By Violeta Lozada
What does the “American Dream” really mean? For some, it’s white houses with new furniture and success stories. For others, especially immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, it’s a more complicated mix of hopes, struggles, and reinvention. That’s exactly the conversation Haitian-American artist Dimithry Victor brings to the table in his exhibition The American Dream at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale.
CIRCLES, SPOKES, ZIGZAGS, RIVERS: CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION AT WHITNEY MUSEUM
Artist Grace Rosario Perkins’s solo exhibition reveals a dynamic process of layering, erasure, and renewal, where personal and collective histories converge.specifically for this exhibition.
FROM FIELD TO FABRIC: THE ECOLOGICAL JOURNEY OF AMERICAN QUILTS
The American Folk Art Museum presents an innovative exhibition examining the natural history of quilts and their connections to agricultural production, industrial manufacturing, and international trade, revealing the environmental and social impact of this quintessentially American art form.
THE UNKNOWN AND ITS POETICS AT KINOSAITO
The interdisciplinary art center located in New York presents work shaped by the experience of relating to the foreign in order to build a unique identity.
THE CONTEMPLATIVE IN THE LABORIOUS, IN NEW YORK
Apexart presents the work of seven Latin American artists who, through meticulous and repetitive handcraft processes, transform labor into an act of resistance, joy, and the creation of possible futures.
BEAUTY, MEMORY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE AT BALTIMORE MUSEUM
Black Earth Rising brings together artists from the African diaspora, Latin America, and Indigenous communities to explore the links between environmental devastation, colonial legacy, and the possibility of imagining alternative futures.
AFRO-CUBAN SPIRITUALITY AT PAMM: DIASPORIC HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY VISION
Twin Photography Duo’s First Solo Museum Exhibition Weaves Afro-Cuban Spirituality with Painterly Explorations of their Cultural Heritage.
WIFREDO LAM AT MoMA: BETWEEN DREAM AND DECOLONIZATION
The Museum of Modern Art will host the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, on view at MoMA from November 10, 2025, through March 28, 2026.
WHITNEY MUSEUM UNVEILS A NEW INSTALLATION OF ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION
The museum draws on the thinking of Felix Gonzalez-Torres as a starting point to celebrate the past, present, and future of its collection, which spans works from 1900 to 1980.
FIVE NATIVE ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR EITELJORG CONTEMPORARY ART FELLOWSHIP
The artists will be featured in Emerging Current, an exhibition opening in November at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, showcasing bold and experimental works that reflect diverse contemporary Indigenous perspectives.
TERRITORIAL NARRATIVE FIGURES AT THE 12th SITE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL
Once Within a Time inaugurated on June 27 in New Mexico with an ambitious exhibition that reflects on the many layers of history, identity, and memory that shape Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
ALFREDO JAAR RECEIVES THE 65th EDWARD MACDOWELL MEDAL
Chilean-born visual artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar is this year’s recipient of the 65th Annual Edward MacDowell Medal, for his outstanding contributions to American culture in the field of “Visual Arts.” His poetic photographs, films and elaborate installations confront the greatest socio-political issues of our time, including genocide, the displacement of refugees, war, corruption and economic inequality.
