Taylor Van Horne
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Taylor Van Horne
@taylvan.bsky.social
Co-founder of the Sacatar Foundation and the Instituto Sacatar which, since 2001, jointly oversee the longest-running artist residency program in Brazil, having hosted 500+ artists from 70+ countries for fully-funded 8-week residencies in Bahia, Brazil.
Some sober words about the thinking behind the creation of Thanksgiving, which was to suppress the consolidation of oligarchies. It was a rebuke of the influential slave-holding class... 150 years on, oligarchs threaten the nation again.

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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Sacatar alum Melanie Baker:
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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OPEN CALL: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

The Pastrana Foundation and Delfina Foundation welcome applications from contemporary visual artists based in Latin America for a residency in London from 21 September to 13 December 2026.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Turns out No Kings Paris, announced for the Place de la Bastille, happened instead at Les Halles. So I missed it twice. I went to the wrong place, but it didn't happen at the announced site either. Protests will not stop the Trump regime. They are a small, still inadequate action to turn the tide.
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We did not find No Kings on the Place de la République. Other protests were ongoing, including a huge rally for trans rights. The queens usurped No King.
October 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I am off to the No Kings rally on the Place de la République in Paris. It will take millions standing up to reverse the damage of Trump and his cadre of sycophants. A new and better republic will arise from the ashes, but only if we make it happen.
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Tonight I am in Manchester, UK, a very strange urban conglomeration, to see the premiere of Marina Abramovic's four-hour "intervention" at Factory International, an institutional partner of Sacatar.
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I dare you to read this transcript. Or any part of it!

We will see President Vance before another 3 ¼ years are over.

President Trump is insane.

Here is the proof:

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Roll Call Factba.se - Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025
Full transcript of Donald J. Trump: Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025
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October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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In our Open Call, we received 333 applications from creative individuals from 55 nations. We will announce the Fellowships for 2026 in mid- to late-November.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It is a fact that Charlie Kirk was an islamophobic, mysogynist, homophobic, racist, "white christian" nationalist. It is a fact that the Republicans and the Trump administration embrace his values. It is not a crime to state these facts.
September 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is what America has become under Trump and his accomplices. A friend told me that an artist he knows flew to the US with a valid visa, a letter of invitation from an artist residency, and a generous stipend to cover her costs. She was deported back to Brazil three hours after her arrival.
September 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Langston Hughes wrote the following poem in 1935. Citizens of the United States made great progress toward the realization of these ideals, until now. Ninety years have passed since Hughes wrote this poem/manifesto, and now we see the progress made rapidly slipping away.
September 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Between September 4 and September 8, I will be in São Paulo, Brazil, for the opening of the São Paulo Bienal. With me will be Sacatar's co-founder Mitch Loch and Sacatar's executive director Felix Toro.
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An exhibition about the diverse ways a Sacatar residency affects an artist's production opens at 17h00 on Friday, August 29, 2025, at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. sacatar.org/comunidade/
Comunidade – Sacatar
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August 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My nation of birth, the USA, is a humiliation, and I don't know if or when the country can recover and seek to deliver on its nobler aspirations. In the meantime, wherever you are, there is work to do to recover sanity in politics and culture.
August 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Diversity and inclusion are the path toward a healthy culture. May the rot at the center of American, Israeli and other autocratic nations' politics become the compost for a reinvigorated world where we strive for justice and opportunity for all human beings.
August 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Instituto Sacatar hosted two artists earlier this year in partnership with the Bienal de São Paulo. Delphine Fuwundu (USA) and Hamedine Kane (Senegal) researched and prepared site-specific installations for the Bienal which opens on September 6 in São Paulo.

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#36bienal Programa de residências artísticas no Instituto Sacatar
YouTube video by Bienal de São Paulo
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August 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Taylor Van Horne
SACATAR'S 2026 OPEN CALL IS NOW LIVE!

All artists are welcome to apply!

For more information: sacatar.org/en/fellowshi...
August 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM