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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…

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The Book Project

Cara Barer

Download Complete PDF / Descargar In The Book Project, Cara Barer proceeded to transform a hodgepodge of volumes into pieces of sculptural beauty. In doing so, she presents a different take on the handmade…

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The Work of Mexican Artist Gabriel Kuri

Evan J. Garza

Download Complete PDF / Descargar It was Jean Baudrillard who said, “It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and…

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Paisaje total – desnudos

Rafael Navarro

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Images courtesy of De Santos Gallery.