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Fixing Shadows

Fernando Castro R.

Contemporary Peruvian Photography 1968-2015 (an inside story) Last April, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin opened the exhibition Fixing Shadows: Contemporary Peruvian Photography 1968-2015. This show, curated by Beverly…

Story of a Little Girl With a Big Mouth

Fernando Castro R.

The first time I saw Geraldo de Barros’s Menina do Sapato (1949) was in the catalog of the exhibition of the first Latin American Colloquium of Photography: Hecho en Latinoamérica…

ULISES I

Fernando Castro

El espacio en el arte / el arte en el espacio (unos cuantos hitos para Guinness) In memoriam Laika, el primer ser vivo en el espacio (Sputnik, 1957) I'm doing…

Six Portraits of Esperanza Velásquez Bringas (1896-1980) by Edward Weston

Fernando Castro

It has happened to so many important women. They leave their mark in society and afterwards, a biased historiography conceals them, diminishes them, or simply ignores them. But memory and…

Three Videos by Miguel Ángel Ríos

Fernando Castro R.

In the early 1970s, a small book by Rudolph Arnheim titled Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order came into my possession. Prima facie, the notion that entropy…

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA on Capricorn 1985-1991

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Fernando Castro R.

In the spring of 1985, the Rice University Department of Spanish and Portuguese invited Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to deliver two lectures: “The culture of freedom” and “The total…

Jesus Moroles, Sculptor (1950-2015)

Fernando Castro

At age sixteen, when most kids are playing ball games, Jesus Moroles was running a prosperous silkscreen business. The Vietnam War interrupted these early artistic endeavors when he was drafted…

The Boundary between Fact and Likelihood: Darío Robleto at the Menil Collection

Fernando Castro R

The lobby and main hallways of the Menil Collection were packed with people waiting to witness the conversation between Texas artist Dario Robleto and Ann Druyan. Producer of the PBS…

Ode On One Orbit Of O

Fernando Castro R.

Open our oasis only once, our own orchard of oblivion, organize objects of obsession onto observable orifices, obey obdurate ordinances, obtain occasional offers of oddly onerous ordeals, or often obscure…

Not Free But Comfy: Cuban Art Between State and Market

Yvon Grenier

“The state artist recognizes that the only freedom within the socialist system is that of participation” Miklós Haraszti, The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism (1987) More Equal than Others…

The Ideology of Color

Fernando Castro

Download Complete PDF / Descargar Many of the works of The Ideology of Color arose from Texas ́ history class when one of my Mexican students of Native-American descendance asked…

No me digan “Doctora”

Malva Flores

Desde niña aprendí a distinguir a los médicos de los doctores pues vivía entre los segundos, todos ellos físicos, y fue así como inició ese conocimiento que, muchos años después,…