Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

Dec 4, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |AX Mina |Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. New York is rife with great art right now, of all genres and styles, but if the shows below share anything, it’s an explosion of color.

Nov 21, 2024 | artefuse.com | Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

How many times have you paused to see the sunset and revel in its beauty; to give thanks for the day as that omnipresent light leaves once again? You take a picture of the colors in the sky, text it to your loved one, or post it on your socials. But once that ball of yellow slips under the horizon line, do you stay until it all fades away, and the deep, somber hues of twilight take over? Maybe you’re a morning person and are used to seeing the sky before the sun illuminates it.

Aug 29, 2024 | artnews.com | Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

In 2013, Regina José Galindo attended the trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, who spearheaded the Guatemalan coup d’état in 1982 and then led the country until 1983. Ríos Montt and Rodriguez Sanchez spoke of how the army dug up mass graves, then murdered Indigenous Ixil Mayan peoples and threw their bodies into the pits. Both were ultimately acquitted.

Aug 13, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Justo ahora (right now), María “Lulú” Varona’s second solo show at Embajada gallery, presents cross-stitched and embroidered works that meditate on local concerns such as femicide and environmental destruction, affirming the political potential of solidarity.

Mar 26, 2024 | latinxproject.nyu.edu | Sebastian Meltz-Collazo

SMC: Something you expressed during the panel discussion in November 2023 stuck with me. You said, “It's a space where your spirit is never at rest because society's telling you that you have to be destroyed.”LM: One of the main things was the never-ending anti-trans, anti-immigrant rhetoric that is pushing a lot of people toward adopting very violent and destructive belief systems.