It’s no secret that the banana industry has left bloody fingerprints across Latin America, from Colombia to Guatemala.
It’s no secret that the banana industry has left bloody fingerprints across Latin America, from Colombia to Guatemala. So why is Chiquita, one of the biggest perpetrators of all, partnering with Art Basel Miami Beach? Latin American art scholars Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano skewer Chiquita’s brazen artwashing scheme in Miami and ask whether the art fair knows — or cares — about the artists mining the company’s violent history. Read their essential, eye-opening opinion piece today.
And reporting directly from the belly of the beast, News Editor Valentina Di Liscia walks us through highlights from the Miami art fairs. Our team also brings you inside the guerrilla subway art in honor of Jordan Neely; Sheila Regan on Sophie Calle, who turns society on its head as both exhibitionist and voyeur; and much more below.
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| | | Chiquita has no place in the arts, let alone at an art fair with deep ties to Latin America. | Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | | These standout artworks caught my eye at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Untitled Art, and the new Open Invitational. | Valentina Di Liscia |
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| | | She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire. | Leia Genis |
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| | | | For a half-century, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices, dry humor, and unapologetic impropriety. | Sheila Regan |
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