Introduction: Making Art Global Charles Esche A Certain Place and a Certain Time: The Third Bienal de La Habana and the Origins of the Global Exhibition Rachel Weiss The Third Bienal del Habana in Its Global and Local Contexts Gerardo Mosquera The Third Bienal del La Habana 1989 City Maps 'Tres Mundos' Núcleo 1 Roberto Diago José Bedia Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar Ahmed Nawar Roberto Feleo Antonio Ole Victor Teixera (Viteix) 'Latin American Textiles' 'Cuban Lithography' 'Calligraphy in Contemporary Arab Painting' Núcleo 2 'Bolivar in Wood Carvings' 'Mexican Dolls' 'African Wire Toys' Núcleo 3 'The Tradition of Humour' 'Messages from South Africa' 'We Love You, Paraguay` 'Censored Photograph from Chile' Graciela Iturbide Sebastião Salgado José Tola Núcleo 4 Catalogue Regulations Introduction Llilian Llanes Godoy, 1989 Notes on the Art, Identity and Poverty of the Third World Mirko Lauer, 1989 Contemporary Cultural Practice: Some Polemical Categories Geeta Kapur, 1989 The Margin of the 'Margin' Coco Fusco, 1990 The Third Biennial of Havana Luis Camnitzer, 1990 Interviews with exhibiting artists José Bedia in conversation with Lucy Steeds Lázaro Saavedra in conversation with Rachel Weiss Alex Angeles and Alfredo Márquez in conversation with Rachel Weiss Author biographies Selected Bibliography Picture credits for the installation and event views Acknowledgements Index