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PRESS FOR GALLERIES & ARTISTS
LA HISTORIA
SE ESCRIBE
AQUÍ PRIMERO.

Then it travels — to Hyperallergic, to the culture desks, to the Miami inboxes that decide who gets seen in December. The press operation for Puerto Rico galleries done waiting. Both languages. No translation layer.

EST. 2026 — SAN JUAN CALLE LOIZA IS OUR STREET ART PRESS IS OUR BEAT ESPAÑOL / ENGLISH 0 MEETINGS TO ATTEND
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Three lanes

LANE A

Art trade + culture desks

Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Artnet — and the Primera Hora / El Nuevo Día culture editors who actually cover openings.

LANE B

The Miami circuit

Art Basel week is where island artists get seen by collectors. Your December press plan is drafted in July, not November.

LANE C

Collector + commission intel

Which hotels commission murals. Which open calls fit your roster. Which collectors are in town. One page, monthly.

monthly coverage report · art press & culture desks● format sample — yours carries your numbers
September — contemporary gallery, Santurce
third month · delivered in full
Coverage placed
01Studio-visit feature, residency artist — Hyperallergic (in edit)
02Opening preview, weekend culture section — Primera Hora, 40k print
03Artist named in Miami-week preview roundup — regional art trade
In motion
Residency open call sent to three MFA programs
Hotel mural RFP flagged: Condado, nine rooms, Q1 install
Collector visit arranged for fair week
Judged + skipped
Auction-record story: big headline, no angle for this roster
2 placements · 1 collector visit · 3 commission signals · next report end of october
This is the report you get, every month. One page. What was caught, what we did, what it earned. No meetings to attend.
IMG1600×1200RESIDENCY WALL — SANTURCE
IMG1600×1200OPENING NIGHT — GALERÍA
IMG1600×1200MIAMI FAIR WEEK — DECEMBER
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First stories — already in our watch file

The residency

A Brooklyn artist making work in Puerto Rico. Brooklyn-to-Borinquen is a story Hyperallergic's region desk has actually run before.

DEST: Hyperallergic

Post-Maria street signs

An intervened street-sign collection — museum-grade material story, pitchable to both art trade and island culture desks.

DEST: culture desks

GRITA, Humacao

Named muralists on walls in a town the art press drives past. The commission story hotels are already part of.

DEST: art trade
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First 30 days — the pilot

Week 1

Roster mapped to beats — which writers at which outlets cover each practice. Your journalist map, permanent.

Week 2

Two pitches out the door. One opening announcement rebuilt for culture-desk inboxes.

Week 3

The December plan — what Art Basel week coverage requires, drafted in September.

Week 4

Your first report. What was caught, what moved, what it earned.

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What three months buys

NAMED
your gallery, in the outlets collectors read
MAP
journalist map for your artists' practices — permanent
1
page to read each month
0
meetings you had to attend
SIG
commission signals before they're public
PIPE
open-call pipeline for the residency
FROM THE DESK · FIELD NOTES Ten Years of Not Asking Permission What EMBAJADA's first decade teaches every gallery still waiting to be found. READ → 6 MIN
THE FREE AUDIT — BEFORE ANY CONTRACT
NAME THE ARTIST
WHO SHOULD BE KNOWN.
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Within days — free, before you pay anything — we'll tell you which reporter wants that story and what we'd pitch them. If we're wrong about the artist, we're wrong in front of you.