Fernando Casas, Before Oneself
This collection of paintings by Fernando Casas closely resembles a set of portraits. But if that were the case, they would have to be the kind of portrait that hides…
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Fernando Botero: A dimension of portliness
It was probably in New York and in the early seventies when I first saw Fernando Botero's paintings. I cannot remember exactly which ones, but I recall what may arguably…
Whispers and Silence: Tania Bruguera, Raul Castro and Performance Art in Cuba
Three times recently we were reminded that art can still stir the pot in our blasé 21st century: with the censorship and delayed release of the B movie The Interview,…
La Suprema Corte y el plagio
El libro tenía un pequeño inconveniente: reprodujo, verbatim, dos capítulos de mi libro El manto liberal (UNAM, 2001). En apariencia el plagio, una vez descubierto en 2017 y denunciado ante…
XUL SOLAR (1887-1963)
Translucency and Opacity "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Pablo Picasso Sixteen years have passed since the exhibit…
Elsa Gramcko: The Path of Intuition, Form, and Things
The moment on September 1912 when Georges Braque decided to paste a piece of wallpaper onto his painting Fruit dish and glass was pivotal in the history of 20th century…
Gustavo Díaz: the Fuzzy Garden
Confronting silence by uttering a sound is nothing but verifying one’s own existence. Toru Takemitsu Gustavo Díaz's exhibit Confronting Silence at Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery featured a dozen large…
Open Letter
To all those concerned about children, teachers, and their families, As HISD hesitates on how the fall school semester will be like, it is worth reflecting on what we are…
Gustavo Vélez: The Poetry of Making Sculpture
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” …
Fixing Shadows
Contemporary Peruvian Photography 1968-2015 (an inside story) Last April, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin opened the exhibition Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography 1968-2015. This show, curated by Beverly…
Story of a Little Girl With a Big Mouth
The first time I saw Geraldo de Barros’s Menina do Sapato (1949) was in the catalog of the exhibition of the first Latin American Colloquium of Photography: Hecho en Latinoamérica…
ULISES I
El espacio en el arte / el arte en el espacio (unos cuantos hitos para Guinness) In memoriam Laika, el primer ser vivo en el espacio (Sputnik, 1957) I'm doing…