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Carolina A. Miranda

Carolina A. Miranda is a cultural journalist in Los Angeles. She was a recipient of the 2017 Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism. (October 2024)

Mythic Chaps

Mythic Chaps

Two recent exhibitions in Denver reveal how many legends and surprising realities coexist in the idea of the American cowboy.

Cowboy

an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, September 29, 2023–February 18, 2024, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, September 28, 2024–March 23, 2025

The American West in Art: Selections from the Denver Art Museum

edited by Thomas Brent Smith and Jennifer R. Henneman

Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture

by Ivan McClellan

October 17, 2024 issue

‘Places That Weren’t Supposed to Be Places’

‘Places That Weren’t Supposed to Be Places’

Three exhibitions of Caribbean art in New York, San Juan, and Chicago show artists intent on rewriting the history of the region.

no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, November 23, 2022–April 23, 2023

Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today

an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 19, 2022–April 23, 2023; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, October 5, 2023–February 24, 2024; and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, April 6–July 8, 2024

Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime

an exhibition at the Americas Society, New York City, September 7–December 17, 2022; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, February 18–July 30, 2023

July 20, 2023 issue

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