Fresh Art International

In 2018, a city-wide public art experience lures us to the capital of Argentina. Organizers of Art Basel Cities Week Buenos Aires, invited Cecilia Alemani, director of the public art program for New York City’s High Line park, to curate Rayuela (Spanish for Hopscotch). Crisscrossing Buenos Aires, we discover historic plazas, parks and museums, abandoned buildings, architecture and industrial sites. We meet artists whose projects connect contemporary art with urban space, civic history and community. Featured projects: Maurizio Cattelan, Eduardo Navarro, Eduardo Basualdo, Alexandra Pirici, Gabriel Chaille, David Horvitz, Naama Tsabar Sound Editor: Joseph DeMarco |  Related episodes: Sounds of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, The Private Life of Public Art, Fringe Projects Miami, Public Art and the Underline Related links: Art Basel Cities Week Buenos Aires, Faena Art Center Buenos Aires, The High Line

Rodrigue Mouchez, founder of the artist-run curatorial platform known as AGUAS, talks about choreographing encounters with art. Mouchez introduces People Moving Through Space, an array of installations he created and staged with AGUAS collaborator Julie Escoffier and other artists for the seventh edition of Untitled, Miami Beach art fair.  Based in Mexico City and Brussels, AGUAS seeks to establish dialogues and collaborations between artists from Europe and Latin America through exhibitions, talks, and publications. AGUAS operates on the idea of interdisciplinarity. Each project invites the collective engagement of artists, designers, writers and friends. Related episodes: Miami Art Week 2018 Preview, Report from Miami Art Week 2017 Related links: AGUAS, Rodrigue Mouchez, Julie Escoffier, Untitled Art

What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights and social movements. In the United States and abroad, painting and drawing, filmmaking and photography, performance and protest have long represented diverse creative perspectives on the volatile subject of race and identity in this country. Today, we hear from curators and artists whose work directly engages with race and American identity. Individually and collectively, they generate “freestyle” expressions of Blackness—revealing that no matter how history influences the Black cultural space, identity remains a fluid form in the hands of contemporary artists. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Photos courtesy of featured artists and the Renaissance Society Featured Audio: Thelma Golden at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hamza Walker, Black Is, Black Ain't Symposium, Renaissance Society, Johanne Rahaman field recordings in South Florida, Theaster Gates at K