Miguel A. López

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  print Summer 2022

  Nadia Granados

  For her solo show “Colombianización,” queer performer Nadia Granados transformed Galería Santa Fe into an immersive audiovisual environment. Through multimedia installations and sculptures, the exhibition delved into the mythology of the Colombian drug trade, strategies in national branding, narco-masculinity, the murder of activists, and the exploitation of natural resources. Interpreting stock characters such as the businessman, the soldier, the entrepreneur, and the hit man through drag-king performance, the artist confronted macho power and pointed out how the production of male identity

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  print April 2022

  Tamika Galanis and Rodell Warner

  The Double Dutch series has been one of the most prolific and dynamic programs developed by the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB) in recent years. Begun in 2015, the project aims to bring artists from around the Caribbean archipelago to produce new works in dialogue with Bahamian artists. In a region shaped by inequalities in access to arts education, a lack of museums of contemporary art, and limited infrastructure for direct travel between neighboring islands, the creation of platforms for encounter and exchange is crucial for the growth of a Caribbean cultural ecosystem. This is

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  print December 2021

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  Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and independent curator based in Lima, Peru. He is the curator of the traveling retrospective exhibition “Cecilia Vicuña. Seehearing the Enlightened Failure” that will open at the Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá, in February 2022.

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  THE LEGALIZATION OF ABORTION IN ARGENTINA AND MEXICO
  

  Last September, after huge feminist campaigns and street actions all across the country, Mexico’s Supreme Court of the Justice of the Nation voted to decriminalize abortion. The landmark ruling followed a similar victory in Argentina (the pope’s native country) ten