Latin America

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  Subtlety Series

  Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891

  May 6, 2014 - 

  Poet Tracy K. Smith responds to a historic photograph of Jamaican sugar plantation workers, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory.  More

  By Tracy K. Smith

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  Subtlety Series

  Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar

  May 5, 2014 - 

  To accompany artist Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project, A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory from May 10 to July 6, novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.  More

  By Edwidge Danticat

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  Op-Ed

  Venezuela: Where the Wealthy Stir Violence While the Poor Build a New Society

  April 28, 2014 - 

  Documentary filmmaker Dario Azzellini argues the protests in Venezuela represent a vicious attack on the country’s social progress under Hugo Chávez, spurred on by anti-Chavista politicians in affluent regions.  More

  By Dario Azzellini

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  Photo Gallery

  Tough Love at Mexico City’s Casa Xochiquetzal

  April 22, 2014 - 

  The photographer Bénédicte Desrus and journalist Celia Gómez Ramos paint a portrait of an unconventional Mexico City retirement home that “provides a space to age with dignity for a group of vulnerable women who are often invisible to society at large.”  More

  By Bénédicte Desrus and Celia Gómez Ramos

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  Dispatch

  Postcards from Venezuela

  April 21, 2014 - 

  As violent anti-government protests rage on in Venezuela, artist Esperanza Mayobre shares a set of postcards with images, anecdotes and reports she describes as “stories told to myself in order to explain my lost country.”  More

  By Esperanza Mayobre