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Outsider Art, psyc…
‘Outsider Art’ is one of the terms used to refer to work made by self-taught artists in general, and inpatients (or clients, as preferred by...
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Brief Encounters i…
July 1865. A single tea clipper, The Mimosa, set sail from Liverpool to the west coast of Argentina carrying with it the hopes of 153 pioneers from Wale...
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The Colección Fort…
In October 2008 the Colección de Arte Amalia LaCroze de Fortabat opened in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, contributing to the rapid transformation ...
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The Journey of Joã…
The beginning of the twentieth century is a moment of rupture with regard to notions of space and time, evidenced by the great transformations brought a...
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Three pieces of a …
A Word on the Work:I wrote this piece one morning after taking a taxi from Spanish Town to Kingston en route to the University of the West Indies. I don’t ...
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Carla Guelfenbein
CARLA GUELFENBEIN was born in Santiago, Chile, and lived in England for 11 years, where she took degrees at the University of Essex and Central St Marti...
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Wrestling as a for…
On July 10 2009, I was startled to read in a British newspaper the surreal headline: “Wrestling midgets killed by fa...
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Malinchismo
The Mexican nation was born out of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés’ violation of la Malinche, a native...
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Laughing in the fa…
The Mexican love of fiesta is well known. There is always a Saint’s Day to commemorate or a national holiday to obse...
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A Tree and a Carib…
Seeing, Hearing and the Value of Caribbean Film Festivals If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This fa...
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ZONA SUR and cinem…
Cinema d’auteur originated in the 1950s as a means of artistic cinematic expression that placed the emphasis less on telling an objective dramatic...
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Sons of Cuba: an i…
Cuba is the land of some of the best boxers in the world, and the Havana Boxing Academy is the boarding school where the most promising kids are trained fr...
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