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Isamu Noguchi: On Becoming An Artist

Wendolyn Lozano Tova

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Interview with Amy Wolf, Curator The Great Depression took Noguchi to Mexico. Could you talk about Noguchi’s friendship with Frida Kahlo? Amy Wolf: Noguchi initiated a friendship…

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Mari Carmen Ramirez: Tenth Anniversary of the Latin American Department

MFAH

Download Complete PDF / Descargar In May 2001 the MFAH established the first curatorial Department of Latin American Art in The United States. This was an extraordinary event for Latin…

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Oscar Muñoz: Self and Others

Fernando Castro R.

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Oscar Muñoz’s oeuvre bridges the gap between self and others, between egocentrism and altruism. His works engage the viewer by their interactive nature, by derailing accepted technical practices, and/or…

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Peers: An Art Collection

Fernando Castro

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Of the many collections I started in my childhood– stamps, shells, Spiderman comic books, Schuco toy cars–the only one that survived the ravages of time, relocation, and…

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Aldo Chaparro. “Pop is for Everyone”

Fernando Castro R.

PUTA: Aldo Chaparro’s LOVE of Robert Indiana Download Complete PDF / Descargar “déjame ser tu puta” (let me be your whore) The Sunstone, OCTAVIO PAZ Probably many more artists than Aldo…

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Young Spanish Art

Tania Tapia Paz

Emerging Artists Download Complete PDF / Descargar Contemporary Spanish art is living through one of the most creative periods of its history. Since the mid-eighties, the proliferation of art galleries and contemporary art…

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Cosmopolitan Routes. Latin American Art in the 20th and 21st Century.

Arte latinoamericano de los siglos XX y XXI. Una conversación con Gilbert Vicario

Rose Mary Salum

Download Complete PDF / Descargar The MFAH presents the first in a series of exhibitions celebrating the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the museum´s Latin American art department and International Center for…

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A Gift

Diario de Oaxaca: Un Regalo

Peter Kuper

An excerpt from Diario de Oaxaca (Published by PM Press in the US and Sexto Piso in Mexico) Diario de Oaxaca is the result of being in the right place at the…

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Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea: La Revolución Mexicana en la caricatura estadounidense

Tanya Huntington

No creo que debamos sentirnos, como dices, muy celebratorios, simplemente por cumplir “doscientos años de ser orgullosamente mexicanos”, frase desafortunada, que supongo imaginada por un ocurrente publicista que piensa el país como…

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La mirada itinerante: Tania Candiani

Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz

Download Complete PDF / Descargar TANIA CANDIANI, ATISBOS Y AFECTOS La artista Tania Candiani (México, 1974) ha abrevado de la literatura y de las artes visuales en igual medida. Su trabajo artístico está fuertemente…

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Dark Trees: A Conversation with Damien Hirst

Necesitamos más al arte que a Dios...

Rose Mary Salum

DAMIEN HIRST: ART IS LIKE HOLDING A MIRROR UP TO LIFE Rose Mary Salum: When one looks at your work, one experiences an encounter with finitude. It seems to me that you explore…

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Islands Floating on the Walls: Project Row Houses. Glexis Novoa

Elizabeth Cerejido

GLEXIS NOVOA: LANDSCAPE OF DISCOURSES* Download Complete PDF / Descargar The first impression of Glexis Novoa’s site specific installation at one of the nearly 100-year-old wood frame houses that make up Project Row…