One of the finest exponents of Latin American Kinetic and Op art, the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez is a legend among contemporaries such as Jesus Soto and Alejandro Otero. In 2008, the Americas Society orchestrated Cruz-Diez's first solo exhibition in the United States, for which Carlos Cruz Diez: InFormed by Color is the exhibition catalogue—the first comprehensive publication in English devoted to the artist.
Writer Mark Abley, author of the acclaimed Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Language, speaks at the launch of Review 76: Contemporary Canadian Writing and Arts.
Review 76 focuses on currents in contemporary writing from throughout Canada, including literature in English and French and aboriginal and immigrant literatures; the selections presented in the issue provide a glimpse of the multicultural and multi-generational face of Canadian writing today.
Review 75 opens with a section of scholarly articles developed by Guest Academic Editor Raúl Antelo on a range of topics relating to Argentine writing and humanities, such as the decade of the seventies in Argentine literature and the influence of the pampa on Argentine identity.
Conceived as a monographic show, this exhibition focused on the process of collaboration that Brazilian artist Paula Trope has undertaken with children and adolescents for more than a decade.
Beginning with a Bang! proposes a movement between two artistic scenarios and is organized into two distinct sections. The first, a selection of action-based projects by artists working in Buenos Aires; the second, a documentary section exploring the rich historical foundations that link these projects to the 1960s and 1970s.
This issue showcases selections of fiction, poetry, creative essays and images by writers and artists from the Caribbean and its diaspora.