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14 August 2023

40 years of the MST Call for Artists

To celebrate the four decades since the founding of the MST, popular artists from all over the world are invited to participate in the MST 40 Years Art Call. Join this process of mística, celebration and collective reflection through art on the challenges of the struggle for land.

22 June 2022

Winds from Fusang: Art, Multipolarity, and China-Latin America Relations

This interview with Zheng Shengtian is a reflection on Chinese-Latin American cultural exchanges since the 1950s, art and multipolarity today, and the possibilities brought by China's re-emergence.

16 May 2022

Go to Yan’an: Culture and National Liberation

On 2 May 1942, hundreds of China’s leading writers, artists, and communist leaders gathered to discuss the key cultural questions of the time. The historic Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art lasted…

To Hope, 100 Years of Paulo Freire | Poster Exhibition

In all, 52 works were submitted, with contributions by artists from 13 states in Brazil and 5 different countries. Their works were arranged around the three axes suggested in the call for…

26 July 2021

Let Cuba Live Exhibition

On the anniversary of the 26th of July Movement’s founding, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research launches the online exhibition, Let Cuba Live. 80 artists from 19 countries – including notable cartoonists and…

20 May 2021

Paris Commune 150 | Cover Exhibition

On 16 May 1871, the Vendôme Column – the symbol of Napoleon-era imperialism – came toppling down. In honour of this anniversary, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research along with 26 international publishers,…

17 March 2021

To reflect, to breathe, to hope and to stay human: Review of Hybrid War poster exhibition

In the middle of our pandemic year, 162 artists from 30 countries and 27 organizations contributed to the Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibitions. They responded to a series of open calls to make posters that…

30 September 2020

To Catch the Heartbeat of Those Below: Interviewing Martin Aleida on Indonesia’s Cultural Organisation Lekra

In 1965, the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) had three and a half million cadre and 20 million mass base, including its cultural wing – Lekra. With 200,000 members, it is likely…

13 August 2020

Review of Anti-Imperialist Poster Exhibition II: Neoliberalism

When they really, urgently, desperately need to say something, the people don’t wait for designers. They get on with it, producing posters and handbills as best they can – sometimes with spectacular…

23 June 2020

Not Only to Stay Alive, but to Stay Human: An Interview with Pavel Égüez

This interview with Pavel Égüez – a Latin American painter and muralist – discusses the situation in Ecuador and his new series of paintings, Cuarantena (‘Quarantine’). He calls on artists to reflect and…

8 May 2020

Painting an Epidemic: An Interview with Li Zhong

We sat down with Li Zhong (李钟) at a small open-air tea house run by a friend of a friend; Zhong is a painter of the Shanghai Academy of Painting and Calligraphy…