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Esther Bell Named First Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute
January 30th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Esther Bell Appointed Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute, Becoming the First Woman to Hold the Role.

The Clark Art Institute is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the United States. Located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, it has been devoted to the study and exhibition of art since 1955. The Institute uniquely combines a museum of the highest caliber with a leading research center—the Research and Academic Program—positioning it as an international point of reference for art historians, curators, and scholars...

Te Papa Turns Away
January 26th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Te Papa Turns Away

It is generally understood that national museums ought to be the natural custodians of their cultural memory.
Spaces where the history of national art is presented in an ordered and intelligible form. Where foundational images can still be contemplated. Yet, primarily for reasons of funding, an increasing number of state institutions...

Prestige Gallery
January 10th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Prestige Gallery

My interest in Asia does not arise from fascination, but from the recognition of a cultural sediment that resists superficial readings. China and Japan have been fundamental references in this process, both in the realm of visual arts and in that of symbolic management. Their literature and philosophy have not lost their capacity to converse with contemporaneity—not as untouchable corpora, but as tools for living thought, applicable to politics, ethics, cultural architecture, and aesthetics.

Nothing but appearance can give us the truth
December 13th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Nothing but appearance can give us the truth

Margate is a coastal town in southeastern England. Located in the county of Kent, on the shores of the North Sea, it forms part of the Thanet district and lies approximately 120 kilometres east of London.
Directly facing the sea stands Turner Contemporary, a contemporary art centre designed by David Chipperfield Architects and inaugurated in 2011...

From Australia, the First Edition of the Aerial Photographer of the Year
December 12th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

From Australia, the First Edition of the Aerial Photographer of the Year

Australian photographers Peter Eastway and David Evans, founders of the International Landscape Photographer of the Year award, have launched the inaugural edition of the Aerial Photographer of the Year. This international competition is devoted exclusively to images captured from the air—using drones, airplanes, helicopters, or hot air balloons—and seeks to encompass the widest possible range of aerial photographic practices...

Martin Parr, the photographer who fractured and renewed the British documentary tradition, has died
December 8th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Martin Parr, the photographer who fractured and renewed the British documentary tradition, has died

A truism, almost an embarrassment, is that we know far fewer people than we pretend to—fewer artists still, and far fewer careers. I read that the influential British photographer Martin Parr, a central figure in contemporary photography and a prominent member of Magnum Photos, has died at 73 in his home in Bristol. I didn’t know him, and if I ever saw one of his images, I erased it, discarded it without ceremony.

Le perspicace douanier
December 7th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Le perspicace douanier

Philately was one of the small devotions of my childhood. I inherited hundreds of stamps from my father. I could never say whether he collected them himself or simply bought them for my brother and me. Among all of them, one in particular held my gaze with disproportionate insistence: a reproduction of The Sleeping Gypsy, the 1897 painting by Henri Rousseau that I finally saw years later at the MoMA.

Wifredo Lam’s Impossible Return
November 14th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Wifredo Lam’s Impossible Return

What could I possibly say today about Wifredo Lam and the exhibition the MoMA has devoted to him? Little that hasn’t already been uttered—successfully or not—by the hundreds of critics and journalists who have read, interpreted, or merely circled around the curatorship of Christophe Cherix (David Rockefeller Director) and Beverly Adams (Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art).

October 7th, 2025 | By Jorge Rodriguez

ViewPoint 57

Founded in 1968 by the Cincinnati Art Club, ViewPoint is an open juried exhibition—responsible for both the selection of works and the awarding of prizes—that reflects the creative breadth and diversity of the Greater Cincinnati artistic community. Over the years, the exhibition has expanded to include submissions from across the country and abroad. Today, it stands among the most prominent annual juried shows in Southwest Ohio, esteemed for its continuity. It is usually hosted by one of the area’s distinguished commercial galleries...