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Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons

Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons

Hands—a part of the human body through which we communicate, sense, measure, and interact with the material world—are explored in this selection of 20th-century posters and graphic ephemera drawn from…
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Pictures at an Exhibition, Constructed Dialogs

Pictures at an Exhibition, Constructed Dialogs

Arte-MFH This fall the Museum of Fine Arts is featuring an exhibition with the long title of Constructed Dialogues: Concrete, Geometric, and Kinetic Art from the Latin American Art Collection.…
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Nor Space, Nor Time

Nor Space, Nor Time

Pedro Tyler Translated to English by Tanya Huntington Rose Mary Salum: From the start of your career, the concept of what can be gauged, or how to measure the immeasurable,…
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Bill Brandt, Shadow and Light

Bill Brandt, Shadow and Light

Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation of his heralded career. Brandt’s distinctive vision—his ability to present the mundane…
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Inventing Abstraction

Inventing Abstraction

   Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925, on view at MoMA from December 23, 2012, to April 15, 2013, explores the advent of abstraction as both a historical idea and an emergent artistic…
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The War of the Termite

The War of the Termite
La guerra de las termitas

For the multidisciplinary Mexican artist Emilio Chapela, the communication networks, as well as the search engines, cybernetic tools, and digital programs, are ideal spaces in which to encounter society’s miscalculations,…
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Reversing Sculpture

Reversing Sculpture
Escultura Inversa

Onishi Yasuaki The fluorescent coating gives off a chilly light. The electric fan moans quietly. The glue hangs in the air. The polyethylene plastic sheet sways lightly. Onishi Yasuaki combines…
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This Machine Kills Tweets

This Machine Kills Tweets

Alighiero Boetti´s PDF Many a thinker has denounced the dangers of thinking in 140 characters, mostly relating it to productivity and concentration in the work place. I am adding this…
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Instalaciones involuntarias

Instalaciones involuntarias

Download the PDF Here ¿Cuánto de lo que hacemos día con día corresponde a nuestra voluntad? Madrugamos porque tenemos que trabajar. O peor aún, porque antes de ir al trabajo…
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Heaps of Language

Heaps of Language

Ecstatic Alphabets is a group exhibition that has put together 12 contemporary artists. Their work include poem/objects, and concrete language experiments that dates to the beginnings of modernism,  and includes both…