Every Day's Journey

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed Rep.  María Elvira Salazar  (R-FL)’s amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill that bans the Biden Administration from using the term “Latinx” on public-facing, government documents. The amendment was inspired by her similarly-named legislation, the  Reject Latinx Act . Although more than 90% of Latinos reject this term, the Biden White House has made it a point to continue referring to Latinos as Latinx. “ The reality is that the Spanish language has two genders: masculine and feminine. Male and female. Period. But a new generation wants to destroy a universal Hispanic reality. It wants to erase a grammatical rule that’s been in place for centuries because of an obsession with wokeness ,”  said Rep. Salazar. The Biden Administration has used the term in  multiple instance . However, that does not take away from the reality that only 2% of Latinos use the term

  Image: GeoVanna Gonzalez,  PLAY, LAY, AYE: ACT 6  (2023). Performance. Featured on 12/8 at 5pm. Presented by Commissioner, in partnership with Chief. Image courtesy of the artist and captured by Juan Matos. We are pleased to be in touch this week with the 12th edition's special focus on  performance art . Live performances are scheduled throughout the run of the fair, continuing Untitled Art’s support of non-commercial genres and multi-disciplinary art practices. General Admission Wednesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 9, 11am-7pm Sunday, December 10, 11am-5pm Wednesday, December 6th 11:30am Awilda Sterling-Duprey,  Blindfolded  (2020 and ongoing) Presented by Nest Exhibitor El Kilómetro (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Fusing Afro-Caribbean dance, music, drawing, and performance, Sterling-Duprey translates music through her body into dance movements on the paper´s surface with sharp actions and a sense of playfulness. 3pm Trueson Daugherty,  Absolute Obedience  (2023) Curated b

Image: Erick Antonio Benitez,  Software for People v2  (2023). Performance 12/7 at 5pm. Presented by Selenas Mountain (New York, NY) and supported by Y.E.S. Contemporary. Courtesy of the artist and Selenas Mountain. We are pleased to announce a program of curated  Special Projects ,  performances ,  podcast conversations , and  events  for the upcoming 2023 edition. Untitled Art’s programming is part of a curatorial platform spearheaded by Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud and Director of Development and Curatorial Affairs Clara Andrade Pereira in support of the wider arts ecosystem – both globally and locally in Miami. Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023 Wednesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 9, 11am-7pm Sunday, December 10, 11am-5pm Image: Vera Chaves Barcellos,  Epidermic Scapes  (1977-2022). Courtesy of the artist and Zielinsky (Barcelona, Spain / São Paulo, Brazil). Special Projects , presented throughout the fair, call attention to curatorial focuses an

                                                    Sheida Soleimani Birds of Passage NEW YORK September 5 to October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, September 8th, 6-8 pm Denny Gallery is pleased to present Sheida Soleimani’s  Birds of Passage . In the newest installation of her series  Ghostwriter , Soleimani “ghostwrites” her parents’ lives: as pro-democratic dissidents targeted by the totalitarian regime in Iran after ’79; and as stateless refugees forced to seek asylum across Europe and in pre- and post-9/11 America. In these photographic assemblages, Soleimani creates palimpsests of memories as a way to reckon with the narratives that she herself has constructed throughout her life from her parents’ stories, drawings, notes, and artifacts of the seismic events that continue to shape their lives. Portrait of Sheida Soleimani by Mel  Taing for Boston Art Review, 2022. Sheida Soleimani was born in 1990 in Indianapolis, IN and lives in Providence, RI. She received an MFA from Cran