Isabella Marie Garcia analyzes privilege and representation as they relate to depictions of Lucumí and Abakuá spirituality in Cuban art and within Miami museum exhibitions featuring the work of Belkis Ayón and Elliot & Erick Jiménez.
Looking at the work of Carlos Garaicoa, and the architectural exhibition Prefabricating Solidarity at Vanderbilt University’s Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice, Alexandra Martinez traces the lived history of postcolonial Cuban architecture.
For the May co-publishing feature with Oxford American, Alexandra Martinez thinks about nostalgia as a collective experience of Caribbean diasporas in Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos and Félix Rodríguez Báez’s El Ranchón’s .
Kristina Kay Robinson recollects on listening to Cowboy Carter, the changing cultural landscape of New Orleans, and the weight of water across belief and place in this CRUSH feature.
Karla Méndez reviews “Zilia Sánchez: Topologías/Topologies” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami—a survey show featuring Sánchez’s work from 1950-1996.
