http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com Newsy art news, the latest chismes, and plentiful cockeyed images. en-us Rotund World 2007 http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/site%20images/RSSImage.jpg http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com 90 62 http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/index.html CIRCA arrives, and there is no turning back. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/49th_Edition/index.html Puerto Rico will soon host the third edition of its very own international art fair, CIRCA. Time to take a deep breath. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/49th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/48th_Edition/index.html At times, Puerto Rico has been imaginative, even visionary in its thinking about public art. This is not one of those times. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/48th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/47th_Edition/index.html A group of architects got together in San Juan, and this is what they had to say about their recent work on the island. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/47th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/46th_Edition/index.html What are our country cousins doing while we grab each other’s throats in the city? http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/46th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/45th_Edition/index.html For all our complaining, getting back to the Puerto Rican art scene has its arcane pleasures, and looked at a certain way you could even call it funny. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/45th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/44th_Edition/index.html Put on your sturdiest hiking boots for the slog that is Art Basel Miami Beach. Three formidable pages, but many, many pictures. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/44th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/43rd_Edition/index.html Does Puerto Rico have more than its share of creative excessives? Judging from two very good ones, Freddie Mercado and Antonio Martorell, you might think so. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/43rd_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/42nd_Edition/index.html We take another in-depth look at an artist’s new work, encaustic paintings by Diógenes Ballester, then spend a leisurely couple of days in Ballester’s picturesque hometown, Ponce. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/42nd_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/41st_Edition/index.html Rotund World takes the lazy way home, dwelling on issues others have looked at before. For example: what is a talk-show hostess doing in the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico inner sanctum? We also do the right thing: reviews of shows at 356 and Museo de Arte de Caguas. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/41st_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/40th_Edition/index.html Puerto Rico’s museums and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture are having good moments. Is anybody watching? http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/40th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/39th_Edition/index.html El Museo de Arte Contempáneo in Santurce does itself proud. For the most part. And that’s not all. Is there feedback at Rotund World? http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/39th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/39th_Edition/Page25.html We say the unutterable without misspeaking ourselves. Plus reviews of exhibitions at Galerías Candela, Comercial, and Trinitaria. Tune in. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/39th_Edition/Page25.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/38th_Edition/index.html Shows! Shows! Shows! It’s all San Juan, all the time: paintings, ashes, installations, Trexis, and more paintings. Read what we do best. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/38th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/37th_Edition/index.html The Rotund crew relives its first tropical dream: looking for art in Miami. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/37th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/37th_Edition/Page24.html The Rotund idyll continues, with visits to old haunts, fave eateries, and those frisky artists’ studios. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/37th_Edition/Page24.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/36th_Edition/index.html We make fun of El Güevo Día and show the San Juan daily how it should be done, with reviews of new exhibitions at el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Galería Comercial. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/36th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/35th_Edition/index.html We emerge from a lengthy slumber with a visit to the latest doings at Espacio 1414, then amble over to everyone’s fave alternative venues, =Desto and Casa Candela. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/35th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/34th_Edition/index.html Come with us as we stop into one of San Juan’s oldest and most maligned neighborhoods, and learn why we should have done it a lot sooner. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/34th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/33rd_Edition/index.html Why are we picking on Puerto Rico’s largest daily newspaper? Again. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/33rd_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/29th_Edition/index.html We travel to the middle of the world to see some art and revisit the spectacular vistas of the Andes. Not to mention the delicious chancho. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/29th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/26th_Edition/index.html The sophomore year of CIRCA, the island’s one and only art fair, proves to be far from jinxed. The mood is upbeat and the sales are good. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/26th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/25th_Edition/index.html Youths making art in Puerto Rico. Need we say more? http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/25th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/22nd_Edition/index.html We’re certainly not talking about the Caribbean. Rotund World hits Newark and Manhattan just in time to see, what else, un montón de arte. Saul Steinberg, David Hammons, and, at the newishly remodeled MOMA, Armando Reverón. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/22nd_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/20th_Edition/index.html We escape to Barcelona, where it’s easy to imagine spending the rest of one’s days by the sea. All that Gaudí helps the illusion, and el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo is not bad either. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/20th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/16th_Edition/index.html Jean Michel Basquiat comes to Puerto Rico in the form of an extensive exhibition of drawings, fine; but what is a private collection doing at a public institution? http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/16th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/15th_Edition/index.html La Muestra Nacional, Pedro Vélez on Martin Creed, the island’s best coffee, plus The Museum of Supernatural History, an operatic and spooky José Luis Vargas production. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/15th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/14th_Edition/index.html Take off your hat to el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) for organizing the closest thing to an art biennial the island has. http://rworld.thenextfewhours.com/14th_Edition/index.html rotundworld@gmail.com