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,…
Mercedes Pardo, the harmony of colors
"Upon seeing her, I felt that desire to live which is reborn in us whenever we become conscious of beauty and of happiness." Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove …
Patricia Sicardi, a road to Cadaqués
"You have to give it your all." Patricia Sicardi (1948-2024) Patricia Sicardi's studio, 2018 (photo by the author) By the time Patricia Sicardi moved to Cadaqués in 2005, Salvador…
Sebastián Gordín: two of us
"Soy medio contrabandista también; en el sentido de que hay ciertas cosas que están un poquito ocultas bajo varias capas". (I am also a bit of a smuggler —in the…
JORINDE VOIGT: INSIDE INSIGHT
Shadows and dyads (sic), Jorinde Voigt’s April exhibit at Sicardi Ayers Bacino Gallery features several important works by the Berlin-based artist. On first impression an educated viewer of Voigt’s current…
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…