Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The article “De Obregón a nuestro tiempo: el tiempo del arte contemporáneo del Caribe colombiano”, written by the historian Danny González Cueto, was published in May 2007 in the “Notas de arte desde el Caribe” section in issue number [...]

The Chilean educator and poet, Gabriela Mistral, sets forth her opinions about the Spanish Antilles. She believes that the Antilles have been forgotten, in spite of being a link between the two Americas. Mistral speaks of France’s role in the [...]

Dr. Marta Moreno Vega’s editorial statement for the first issue of Caribe magazine lays out the aims and goals of the new publication. She states that Caribe will focus on Caribbean subjects that have been misinterpreted by colonizing powers. [...]

Cuban novelist Zoe Valdés pays homage to the work of Dominican artist Darío Suro. Transformed into a perceptive art critic while still displaying her lyrical gift as a fiction writer, Valdés gives literary form to Suro’s art, which she sees as a [...]

Federico Suro—a journalist and former diplomat who is the son of the artist, Darío Suro—wrote this essay. Anecdotal in tone, this article offers many insights into the artist’s almost obsessive approach to drawing, which he called the “life- [...]

This essay by art critic Laura Gil Fiallo posthumously explores the creation of imagery in Darío Suro’s art that captured the multi-dimensionality of Dominican and Caribbean art. She thus emphasizes the existential quality of Suro’s style, its [...]