A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Tag: Art & architecture
Colonisation of the decolonial
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Art is a way of confronting institutional obstacles to decolonisation. Unmaking to Make: Art as decolonising practice in Latin America’s future, past and present, edited by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, María Iñigo Clavo, Beatriz Lemos and Florencia Portocarrero, 2026, UCL Press
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, North America, South America
Painting pain
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Georgina Jiménez assesses how London’s Tate Modern is exploring ‘Fridamania’.
Frida: The Making of an Icon
Tate Modern, London
25 June until 3 January 2027
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom
When Pop goes ‘pop!’
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Antonio Dias was the most famous Brazilian pop artist that never was. Review: Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe, Sérgio B Martins, 2026, University of California Press
Apocalypse now
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A Peruvian graphic novel grapples with a collapsing world. Books in brief: Before We Sail, Carlos Yacolca et al. Review: Before We Sail, Carlos Yacolca, Michelle Lino, Diego Revello, David Escobedo and David Lloys, 2026, Aces Weekly
Categories: Peru
Future imperfect
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Latin America figures prominently in a history of urban visions. Review: The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, Bruno Carvalho, 2026, Princeton University Press
Categories: Brazil, Europe, Mexico, North America
Nationalism on a plate
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Food in post-revolutionary Mexican art had an ideological flavour. Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art, Lesley A Wolff, 2025, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
The revival of Macondo
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A writer breathes new life into a town immortalised in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Mompós Project: A Tale of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia, Richard McColl, 2025, Fuller Vigil
Categories: Colombia, South America
Unseen genius
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US imperialism renders the art of Puerto Rico invisible. Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Caribbean, North America, Puerto Rico, United States
Indigenous enigma
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A book on colonial art reveals hybrid secrets. Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán, Amara Solari and Linda K Williams, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Mexico, North America