Borimix: Puerto Rico Fest 2008

The third Borimix: Puerto Rico Fest, celebrating Puerto Rican heritage, art and culture is currently under way in New York City. With a mixture of events including theater, music, movies and art, it is a great way to see the great contribution of Puerto Ricans to the current art scene.

For more information check out their website www.puertoricofest.org

If you attend and would like to post some reviews, please let me know.

Puerto Rican Art Websites

Here are some of my favorite website on Puerto Rican Art.

http://www.zenstudio.com/pr/index.html

DEFINING IDENTITY: Modern and Contemporary Puerto Rican Painting

This is one of the most comprehensive sites regarding Puerto Rican painting. The site was created by Gabriel Caro and includes a brief overview of Puerto Rican painters as well as bios of some of the more popular painters.

http://boricuaafricanos.blogspot.com/

African Boricuas is a blog by Edmee Cappas Velez where she interviews and showcases some of the contemporary Puerto Rican artists.

http://www.puertoricanposters.com/

Puerto Rico 1952-1985 in Posters

A great online exhibit of posters by some of the great artists from Puerto Rico.