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*Tangere* takes its title from a passage written by John Alfred Charlton Deas in *What the Blind May ‘See’: Some Museum and Other Experiments in Tactile Sight*. In this book, the curator of the Sunderland Museum in the UK recounts the experiences generated during a series of pioneering inclusive sessions in which blind people of different genders and ages touched and interacted with objects from the collection. John Alfred Charlton Deas, in describing those episodes, remarked: “To them, their fingers are eyes.”.


La Térmica is opening “Tangere,” an exhibition of paintings by Nacho Martín Silva designed for blind and visually impaired visitors. This new in-house production, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda and developed in collaboration with the ONCE branch in Málaga, will be open to the public through September 20. Tangere actively involves blind people as collaborators in the project, making inclusion an essential part of the artistic experience.


The new in-house exhibition, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda and developed in collaboration with the ONCE branch in Málaga, will be open to the public through September 20. 'Tangere' features the participation of blind individuals as project collaborators, making inclusion an essential part of the artistic experience.

On Thursday, May 21, BilbaoArte's Sala URIBITARTE40 will present the book «Algunas posibilidades (a partir de basura y simulacro)» about Miren Doiz's exhibition, which will be on display until May 31. With the participation of the artist herself and Emma Brasó, art historian and curator.

The Center for Artistic Production of the Bilbao City Hall presents the exhibition Algunas posibilidades (a partir de basura y simulacro), by artist Miren Doiz (Pamplona, 1980). The exhibition, which can be visited until May 31 at Sala Uribitarte40, reflects on the logic of production and destruction of materials that defines our times.


Writer Carmen Maria Machado Turns Curator for a Subversive New Show in New York: Rocío García
VOGUE
Themes of power, pain, desire, sexuality, and fear animate much of Machado's work as well as García's, making a multimedia collaboration between the two creatives feel especially apropos. Machado, who is also of Cuban descent, notes that while working with García, who lives in Havana, posed certain logistical challenges-“since bringing stuff out of Cuba is pretty hard right now”-encountering the artist's work in person was a revelation.

Roberto Diago to Represent Cuba at the 2026 Venice Biennale With “Hombres Libres / Free Men”.”
BAM! Black Art Magazine
Afro-Cuban artist Roberto Diago brings a new salvaged-material installation to Cuba's pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, treating scar and surface as a language of memory, resistance, and survival.

Roberto Diago, protagonist of the Cuban Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
PAC
‘Free Men’ is Roberto Diago's proposal for the Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde and commissioned by Daneisy Garcia Roque. The project, which can be visited from May 9 to November 22, is located at Il Giardino Bianco - Art Space, located in via Garibaldi 1814, between the Giardini and the Arsenale.

CUBA PRESENTS “HOMBRES LIBRES” AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Arte Al Dia
Cuban artist Roberto Diago presents a sculptural installation that turns the scar into an emblem of identity and precariousness into an act of sovereignty.

EDUARDO PONJUÁN: A DEFENSE OF ART IN THE FACE OF COMMERCIALISM IN THE APARTMENT
Arte Al Dia
Eduardo Ponjuan: The Cuban artist uses the metaphor of chess to reflect on the tensions that cross the art industry, reviewing, from postmodernist concepts, originality, the commodification of aesthetics and its impact on the artist.

The furniture and art that define Pedro Almodóvar's ‘Bitter Christmas’: 33 key pieces (and where to buy them)
Way
The furniture, design and art in Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas build interiors and define the characters (...) The work of Cuban artist Ariamna Contino introduces a silent and deeply hypnotic presence in the film.

Writer Carmen Maria Machado Turns Curator for a Subversive New Show in New York: Rocío García
VOGUE
Themes of power, pain, desire, sexuality, and fear animate much of Machado's work as well as García's, making a multimedia collaboration between the two creatives feel especially apropos. Machado, who is also of Cuban descent, notes that while working with García, who lives in Havana, posed certain logistical challenges-“since bringing stuff out of Cuba is pretty hard right now”-encountering the artist's work in person was a revelation.

Roberto Diago to Represent Cuba at the 2026 Venice Biennale With “Hombres Libres / Free Men”.”
BAM! Black Art Magazine
Afro-Cuban artist Roberto Diago brings a new salvaged-material installation to Cuba's pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, treating scar and surface as a language of memory, resistance, and survival.

Roberto Diago, protagonist of the Cuban Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
PAC
‘Free Men’ is Roberto Diago's proposal for the Pavilion of the Republic of Cuba at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde and commissioned by Daneisy Garcia Roque. The project, which can be visited from May 9 to November 22, is located at Il Giardino Bianco - Art Space, located in via Garibaldi 1814, between the Giardini and the Arsenale.

CUBA PRESENTS “HOMBRES LIBRES” AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Arte Al Dia
Cuban artist Roberto Diago presents a sculptural installation that turns the scar into an emblem of identity and precariousness into an act of sovereignty.

EDUARDO PONJUÁN: A DEFENSE OF ART IN THE FACE OF COMMERCIALISM IN THE APARTMENT
Arte Al Dia
Eduardo Ponjuan: The Cuban artist uses the metaphor of chess to reflect on the tensions that cross the art industry, reviewing, from postmodernist concepts, originality, the commodification of aesthetics and its impact on the artist.

The furniture and art that define Pedro Almodóvar's ‘Bitter Christmas’: 33 key pieces (and where to buy them)
Way
The furniture, design and art in Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas build interiors and define the characters (...) The work of Cuban artist Ariamna Contino introduces a silent and deeply hypnotic presence in the film.
