MoCA-Americas Magazine, the new publication of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, is now available. The issue brings together exhibitions, curatorial projects, institutional collaborations, critical essays, and news that offer a broad view of the work developed by the museum over the past year, both in Miami and beyond.
Published by the Rodríguez Collection and MoCA-Americas, the magazine extends into print one of the principles that has increasingly shaped the institution’s activity: the circulation of artists, artworks, and ideas beyond the physical limits of the museum, while building sustained relationships with other cultural communities. Antonio Correa serves as Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director, Ivonne Ferrer as Art Director, and the publication brings together a diverse group of contributors associated with the museum’s critical and curatorial activity.
The magazine documents a wide range of projects. MoCA-Americas and the Fine Arts Ceramic Center’s participation in DIVERSE ArtPalmBeach, initiatives centered on Cuban art and its diaspora, and the reciprocal exchange between Miami and Marco Island reveal the growing circulation of the museum’s collection and of the artists connected to its programs. The Marco Island project, for example, was conceived as a genuine exchange between two artistic communities, bringing Latin American and Caribbean artists from Miami to Florida’s Gulf Coast and later introducing Southwest Florida artists to audiences in Kendall.
The publication also reflects the museum’s expanding geographic reach. Double Portrait, developed with Annex Gallery, extended MoCA-Americas’ dialogue toward Cincinnati and the Midwest, while other initiatives connected the institution with São Paulo, Madrid, Mérida, New York, and additional cultural contexts. These projects reveal an increasingly active network linking South Florida with other cities, institutions, and artistic communities across the Americas and beyond.
Alongside this documentary dimension, MoCA-Americas Magazine gives significant space to critical writing. Antonio Correa Iglesias contributes “Cartographies of the Body: Visual Territories,” an essay devoted to the work of Ivonne Ferrer. Dayalis González writes “The Seriema’s Song: Paths of Earth and Wind,” accompanying a project that brought the Rodríguez Collection and Cuban art into dialogue with several generations of artists from Goiás, Brazil. The issue also includes contributions by Ángel Alonso and Llilian Llanes, together with extensive material prepared by the editorial staff.
Artists and projects featured throughout the issue include Kay Hurley, Aaron Kent, Juan Antonio Martínez Tendero, María José Escolar, and many others. A substantial news section records acquisitions, exhibitions, studio visits, educational initiatives, institutional agreements, and collaborations extending from Miami to São Paulo, Mérida, Madrid, New York, and other cities.
More than an archive of completed events, the magazine reveals the network that has gradually taken shape around MoCA-Americas. Exhibitions, collections, research, education, publications, and institutional alliances appear here as interconnected parts of a broader cultural process.
As the editorial text opening the issue suggests, a museum magazine records moments on paper precisely so that they can continue to circulate.
MoCA-Americas Magazine is now available on Amazon.