Exhibition Review: Los Carpinteros' Playful Impertinence

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On Saturday, the Cuban art duo Los Carpinteros (“The Carpenters”) opened an exhibition of new work titled Irreversible. It should be called Irreverent, as Wendy Moonan writes for Architectural Recod.

The show, which occupies the entire Sean Kelly Gallery in Manhattan through June 22, includes an 11-foot-wide architectural watercolor, a room-size installation involving smashed tomatoes, a video depicting a conga dance in reverse (music also in reverse), and three sculptures that look like spacecraft.

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Bermuda’s ACE showcases heritage with Anna Lefroy’s botanical paintings

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Residents will get a rare chance to look at some of Charlotte Anna Lefroy’s work.

The ACE Gallery is displaying Celebrating Bermuda’s Colours: Bermuda Botanicals 1871 – 1877.

It is the first time they have been showcased since they were created in the 1870s.

In celebration of the 2013 Heritage Month theme, The Colours, Sights and Sounds of Bermuda, the ACE Gallery and the Bermuda National Trust have partnered to allow the general public to enjoy these works of art.

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Pictures of amazing hairdos at 9th afro-hair contest in Cali, Colombia

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The IX Hairdressers and Afro-hairdos contest, "Knitting Hopes" took place last weekend, (May 11-12, 2013) in Cali, Colombia, sponsored by the Programa Nacional de Concertación del Ministerio de Cultura.

In its ninth iteration, scheduled during African Heritage Month, the contests seeks to celebrate African-style hairdos as a distinctive elements of black neighborhoods and to reaffirm African identity through the practice of hairdressing.

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Through Posters, a Dialogue about Cuba's Future

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Christine Armario (Associated Press) writes about a poster exhibition held in Miami earlier this month (May 4) by State of SATS, an activist group attempting to foster civil society and stimulate discussion about Cuba's future. The group's leader, Antonio Rodiles, is in Miami to promote a campaign demanding that Cuba implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ratify two United Nations covenants the government signed in 2008 protecting civil, political, social and economic rights.

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Cuban Performance Art: Carlos Martiel Delgado Sainz

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I recently discovered a very interesting blog by Píter Ortega—Blog de Píter Ortega, a space dedicated to criticism of Cuban and international art—and I thoroughly enjoyed his review of performance artist Carlos Martiel. Ortega’s review—“El peso de una isla en el amor de un pueblo” —delves into Cuban performance art and the self-sacrificing (and sometimes, dangerous) nature of the work of Carlos Martiel Delgado Sainz (Havana, 1989).

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Puerto Rico’s Art Deco Past: Preserving to Remember

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“Preservar para no olvidar” (El Nuevo Día) focuses on the work of David Soto Padín, a civil engineering student at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, who has documented over 200 examples of Art Deco structures in Puerto Rico and founded the Puerto Rican Society of Historical Architecture in order to preserve memories. Soto Padín’s project is guided by his interest in showing that historical preservation and awareness of our architecture allows us to build “community.” …

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Natural Histories: Everald Brown

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The work of self-taught painter and sculptor Everald Brown is best understood in the context of religious Rastafari and African-Jamaican spirituality. Like many other religious Rastafarians, Brother Brown was attracted to the teachings and ritual practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and in the early 1960s established the Assembly of the Living, a self-styled mission of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church which was located at 82 ½ Spanish Town Road.

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