To all those concerned about children, teachers, and their families, As HISD hesitates on how the fall school semester will be like, it is worth reflecting on what we are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
“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…
