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Judy Chicago, Linda Nochlin And The Birth of Feminist Art

Fernando Castro R.

Judy Chicago Judy Chicago is credited for coining the term “feminist art.” That was in 1970 when she started the first feminist art program in the United States at the…

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Pictures at an Exhibition, Constructed Dialogs

Fernando Castro R.

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

Rose Mary Salum

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 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

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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

La guerra de las termitas

Lorena Marrón

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

Escultura Inversa

Nakamura Fumiko *

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

José Antonio Simón

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

Tanya Huntington

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

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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…

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A Point Full of Significance: Miguel Ángel Rojas

ENTREVISTA CON MIGUEL ÁNGEL ROJAS

Rose Mary Salum

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Rose Mary Salum: Your first works are simultaneously documents, manifestos and position papers. Your work contains materials strongly charged with ideology. Is it a myth for you to think…

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Guillermo Kuitca. The “Death of Painting” Painting as a Resistance Movement

Mari Carmen Ramírez

Images courtesy of the Sperone Westwater Gallery Guillermo Kuitca’s work has received significant international attention since 1985, when he represented Argentina in the XVIII São Paulo Biennal. He soon became…

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