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I Don’t Do Anything. The Light Does It for Me: A Conversation with Francesca Bellini Joseph

Luis Tomasello

Download Complete PDF / Descargar During the Modern Age, there were many artists who immigrated to Paris, seduced by its vibrant artistic scene. Latin Americans were no exception and in the Fifties, the now-recognized…

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The City as Obsessed: Phil Kelly

David Lida

A Paint Reads a City Download Complete PDF / Descargar Not long ago, while sitting in an outdoor café a couple of blocks from the Alameda of Santa María la Ribera, painter…

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Minerva Cuevas: The Construction of Reality

La construcción de la realidad

Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz

Minerva Cuevas thoroughly exemplifies what it means to be a “citizen of the world” in the contemporary moment. Constantly on the move from city to city, her work processes arise out of temporary…

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Words and Things: Rosana Ricalde

Las palabras y las cosas

Luciano Vinhosa

Traducción de Anahí Ramírez Alfaro Time Changes Everything Other authors have noticed that in Rosana Ricalde’s work, the instability between verbal syntax and visual structure expounds the image to the limit of the receiver’s…

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Mexitanos. El pueblo Rom: Más allá de cualquier frontera: Valentina Siniego

Tanya Huntington Hyde

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Con las expresiones Pueblo Gitano, Pueblo Rom, gitanos o romaníes se designa en castellano a las personas pertenecientes a cierta comunidad o etnia presente en diferentes proporciones,…

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Word´s Vibrate

Soledad Arias

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Soledad Arias’ work deals with the material and immaterial aspects and the impact of words. The white neon signs are like ghosts of lingering thoughts that seem to…

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La mirada incómoda

Roberto Rébora

Download Complete PDF / Descargar En el dibujo y la pintura de Roberto Rébora destacan sus conocimientos técnicos y el vigor expresivo de sus temas y materiales. El contenido de sus imágenes está…

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La certificación del suceso. Entrevista con Héctor Toledano y Fernando Delmar

Aníbal Delgado

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Tan lejos de los profesionales del atrevimiento como de los cenáculos de las estéticas certificadas, la obra de Aníbal Delgado implica un prolongado e inquietante experimento…

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An unruly history: The readymade

Una historia desenfocada

Fundacion Jumex

Jesica Morgan [Interview] The impact is as diverse as the many concepts initiated by Duchamp. —J. M. You curated an exhibition on the history of the readymade. What is the history of…

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A Photographer´s Life

Vida de una fotógrafa

Annie Leibovitz

“You’re good, but you could be better" [S. Sontag] Download Complete PDF / Descargar The personal photographs It’s my most important work. It’s the most intimate. It tells the best story,…

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Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Arts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Download Complete PDF / Descargar MoMA presents an Installation of its Contemporary Galleries with Works from the Collection that Trace a Path from the 1970s to the Present. This is a major…

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Places of Longing: Gabriel Figueroa Flores

Lugares prometidos

Alberto Ruy Sánchez

Translated by Rhonda Buchanan THE LIPS OF PARADISE They say this arcade was built long ago by an exile from the desert who longed for its palm trees. He came from…