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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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