Backed by the Cannes Film Market and Argentina’s INCAA film agency, the 15th Ventana Sur and its much anticipated works in progress sections, Primer Corte and Copia Final, unspool over Nov. 27-Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires. This year’s crop of films, either in post-production or completed, make scant reference to the region’s brutal historical past, …
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Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72
So grateful (and sad) to read a comprehensive obituary of the late Adál Maldonado. [Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye for bringing this item to our attention.] Katharine Q. Seelye (
Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive.
Adál Maldonado, an influential Puerto Rican photographer and artistic provocateur who explored the psychological and cultural fallout of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York, died on Dec. 9 in San Juan. He was 72.
His death, in a hospital, was caused by pancreatic cancer, said Francisco Rovira Rullán, his gallerist in San Juan and the manager of his estate. Mr. Maldonado had moved back to Puerto Rico in 2010.
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Behind the Devastating, Prize-Winning Image ‘Muerto Rico’
[Many thanks to Teo Freytes for bringing this item to our attention.] This article by Roger Catlin (
Smithsonian Magazine) from June 1, 2020, examines ADÁL’s “Muerto Rico,” which won the People’s Choice award in
The figure lies beneath the water in a bathtub. A red bandana obscures the individual’s face. As one eye looks out warily; the other is concealed by a murky air bubble. The stark message “Muerto Rico” in handmade white letters is emblazoned across the figure’s black T-shirt.
The striking photograph, by the artist known as ADÁL, recently won recognition as the winner of the People’s Choice award in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. More than 17,000 cast their votes online a record for the triennial competition. [. . .] ADÁL is the second Latinx artist to win its People’s Choice Award.