Miguel Ángel Ríos o la vibración de la materia
Miguel Ángel Ríos estudió en la Academia de Bellas Artes en Buenos Aires antes de mudarse a Nueva York, donde llegó en los años setenta huyendo de la dictadura militar…
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Melanie Smith: The Absent Body
Melanie Smith Tanya Huntington: Let’s start with the theme of the expatriate. It’s always difficult when you position yourself outside of your native context, simply because the world of criticism…
The Art of Appropriation: An Interview with Susannah Mira
Gisela Heffes: One distinctive component of your art projects is that you appropriate discarded objects and transform them into works of art. How can you conceptually define this aspect of…
La izquierda cubana y el debate racial
En el actual escenario de reformas en Cuba –que combina cierta liberalización económica con la persistencia del autoritarismo político– es posible identificar diversas posturas adscritas a referentes de izquierda, que…
Fakes in the World of Photography
Fakes are possibly the most fascinating slice of the art world. From time to time, a suspicious work slips by authentication experts and draws an extraordinary amount of media attention.…
Melanie Smith: América Latina, mirar internamente
Viernes 13 de junio 2014 Melanie Smith nació en Poole, Inglaterra en 1965. Estudió la licenciatura en Artes por la Universidad de Reading. Se considera artista contemporánea. Sus obras son…
The Art of Forgery
De la Mora-web Hans van Meegeren (1889-1947) was one of the most notorious art forgers to date. His fake Vermeers even fooled experts in the Dutch Golden Age. Let us…
Suburban Fluxus, Hillerbrand+Magsamen
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Ambiguous Positions
Sparagana-web According to Benjamin Paul, your method forms the basis of a subtle struggle with the dialectical role images play in mediating history. Benjamin did a beautiful job of framing…
Antena @ Blaffer
¿Cómo imaginar un espacio previo a la Torre de Babel donde todos los habitantes del mundo puedieran expresarse libremente o, mejor aún, entenderse? ¿Cuál sería la lengua predominante? ¿Quién la…
The Silent Cities of Peru: The Archaeological Photography of Fernando La Rosa
When I began my journey in photography it was not very clear to me how the different genres, or what I later called “modes” of photography, all fit it in.…
Jonathan Leach, Abstract Painting in Context
Does the historical avant-garde persist as an inspiration to young artists today, and how exactly might it do so? Jonathan Leach, an artist who lives and works in Houston, paints…
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