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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…

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An Addiction to Cinema. Painting and Film

Salvador Dalí

Download Complete PDF / Descargar The exhibition proposed that Dalí’s personal engagement with cinema, a filmmaker, and an art director—was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected his art ... The exhibition…

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Geraldo de Barros: Thowing the Dice

Fernando Castro

Download Complete PDF / Descargar If we could only keep our happy or sad memories we would go crazy. Fortunately, there are others. - GERALDO DE BARRO Unbeknownst even to…

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Installation 2008. A point full of significance: An Interview with Miguel Ángel Rojas

Rose Mary Salum

Because I'm interested in working from ethical bases, I’ve brought a new morality to my life because it interests me a lot to set up those opposites as a manifesto... Download Complete PDF…

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Steal this: Jac Leirner

Fernando Castro

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Let the true philosphers grow wild… - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In 1971 Abbie Hoffman published a book that indulged my bibliomania but almost got me in…

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The Image: Literal and Metaphoric

Alex Harris

Download Complete PDF / Descargar In this exhibition, Alex Harris juxtaposes one group of seemingly disparate color images—a series of Havana views seen through the windshields of aging American automobiles.

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Gabriel Orozco: The Poetry of Forms

Evan J. Garza

Download Complete PDF / Descargar A master of diverse media and subject matters, Orozco has created a substantial body of work that, at each stage of his career, leaves absolutely no detail with…

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Daily Life of People: The Reality is Disturbing

Lucian Freud

Download Complete PDF / Descargar In a career spanning more than six decades, Freud (British, b. Germany, 1922), has redefined portraiture and the nude through his frank scrutiny of the human form. On view…

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A Nightmare Vision

John Alexander

Download Complete PDF / Descargar The reward of a retrospective is to observe the development of an artist, the key moments, and the collective summation of the work. John Alexander: A Retrospective On…

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A Conversation With Thomas Glassford

Rose Mary Salum

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Rose Mary Salum: Your early sculptures were based on local and natural materials (dried gourds, leather, chicharrón), but you’ve increasingly turned to more industrial and urban materials. What is…