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.