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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
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’
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
Tomorrow Is Today
It is impossible to write about Prospect.5, New Orleans’s citywide art triennial, without considering the reason for its existence: Katrina.
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
an exhibition in various locations in New Orleans, October 23, 2021–January 23, 2022
May 12, 2022 issue
‘Who Designs Your Race?’
At a time when Latino identity is in flux, El Museo del Barrio’s triennial embraces its fragmented nature.
Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21
an exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, New York City, March 13–September 26, 2021
October 21, 2021 issue
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