Articles
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Claudia Arozqueta
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the border
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01.02.2007
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BORDER ART: SOCIAL ART ABOUT THE NORTHERN BORDER OF MEXICO
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| The northern frontier of Mexico evokes the ideas of rupture and mutilation, an open wound caused by the loss of territory in the mid 19th century. The region was populated by poor migrants in search of better living conditions and determined by several North American groups in transit towards “the other side.” The intense atmosphere on the border separating Mexico from the United States… |
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Marisol Rodríguez
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travel
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01.02.2007
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LANDINGS: A SHARP CUT
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| Perhaps, after all,
America never has been discovered.
I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, 1891.
The city of Santiago de los Caballeros is lost in the middle of the Central Sierra, Dominican Republic, hidden among hills and mountains, banana palms and flanboyanes. The population is divided between half-castes and mulatos, no one here is black (instead they call… |
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Drew Martin
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the border
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01.02.2007
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SUBTLE LINE
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| When I arrived at Haydee Rovirosa Gallery in New York’s Chelsea district to interview the gallery’s curator, Haydee’ Rovirosa, and the newly arrived artist, Javier Velasco, I found neither. They had stepped out to get a tool for the installation of Velasco’s solo show, “Linea Sutil” (Subtle Line). The gallery’s assistant, Jaime Bandres, showed me around the space and later became my invaluable… |
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Tony Ozuna
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the border
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01.02.2007
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STRANGE NEW WORLD IS COMING TO A FUTURE NEAR YOU
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| “The United States shares with Mexico a two-thousand-mile connection—the skin of two heads. Everything that America wants to believe about himself—that he is innocent, that he is colorless, odorless, solitary, self-sufficient—is corrected, weighed upon, glossed by Mexico, the maternity of Mexico, the envy of Mexico, the grievance of Mexico.”
Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation - An Argument… |
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Alfredo Flores Richaud
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review
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01.02.2007
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GABRIEL OROZCO IN BELLAS ARTES
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To the glory of the most famous, the shortsightedness of their admirers is always attributed -Georg C. Lichtenberg
Shoot at contemporary art: there’s a growing sport
Ivan de la Nuez, Cuban writer, in Babelia, the cultural supplement of El Pais.
... I attribute to this state of the soul my repugnance of
museums. The museum, for me, is all of life. Fernando Pessoa, El Libro del Desasosiego.
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Luis Camnitzer
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food for thought
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01.02.2007
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WONDER BREAD AND SPANGLISH ART
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| In its short life, the U.S. has both adopted and developed a great variety of cultural paradigms and myths that give cohesion to its national identity. These constructs, not always products of a conscious strategy, overshadow and help reduce the diversities in the population identity; a diversity which normally would tend to undermine a sense of unity. Some of the ideas are notorious and past… |
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Marisol Rodríguez
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colors
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01.02.2007
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PINK AS HELL
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| This was originally sent as an email to Umělec Magazine publisher Ivan Mécl January 17, 2006 10:44 PM, about an hour after I saw Pink Not Dead, a collective exhibition presented by Maurycy Gomuliki, a Polish artist living in Mexico City. I went to Maurycy and Maurycy’s friends show, and it was awful; but before anything else I must tell you that it was remarkably attractive—and clever—the… |
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Mariana David
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art thieves
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01.02.2007
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MARÍA ALÓS: THE ART OF COLLECTING INSTITUTIONS
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| María Alós has always understood that to be an artist and make art, one must recognize the strategies and demands to which any task must conform. For her Incognito series (2000-2005), Alós generated her own network of collectors and snuck her own self-portraits into spaces such as the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; with Untitled Intervention (2001), she… |
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Valeria Gonzales
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manifesto
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01.02.2007
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ART BEYOND EXHIBITION DUPLUS
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| In the art scene, the terms ‘new technologies’ and ‘new media’ function as synonyms. They are perfectly interchangeable. This brings with it a significant reduction: it implies that any technology, or any potential knowledge about technology, is reduced to its mere instrumental application as a means-to-an-end. In the world of the art exhibition, it is supposed that works associated with ‘new… |
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Jorge Flores-Oliver
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street art
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01.02.2007
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ERNESTO MUÑIZ: ALTARS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN URBAN GUERRILA WARFAFE
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| No art is more easily recognizable to a traditionally Catholic town than religious art (this in spite of the damage the said religion has suffered due to the proliferation of church-sects that have robbed it of vital space throughout the years). The hordes that overstuff the churches every weekend have accustomed their eyes to the rather gory paintings and sculptures of bloody Christ carrying… |
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