Illustrator Maira Kalman's fanciful interpretation of Schaffner's pilgrimage to Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan and historian Markus Rediker's analysis of Vodou Surrealism in response to a curatorial trip to the Caribbean are particularly worth a read. (archpaper.com)
Inspired by Maya Deren's unedited footage of Haitian Vodou rituals, Jonas draws figures on a blackboard, over and over again, only to erase them with her waving hand, dashing dazzling possibilities with each interruption. (bombmagazine.org)
The men responsible included, from Cuba, the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; from Argentina, the ideologue Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, François «Papa Doc» Duvalier, a buttoned - down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture. (bookbrowse.com)