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I wrote this preview for an exhibition at a gallery in Pilsen (Chicago, Spanglish-speaking neighborhood) for school’s publication. First of many articles to come…
Just finished reading: The Moon & Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham / Illustrated by Paul Gaugin
MEX/LA is not an ethnic show but rather one that addresses cultural constructions and exchange as part of the modern experience. We are interested in the idea of “nation” as a form of expression and self-determination and not of exclusion. This idea does not exist in opposition to modern internationalism but it is rather an intrinsic part of it.
- Rubén Ortiz Torres, curator
The show is currently at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach and is part of the Getty Foundation’s monster group of exhibitions on the history of the L.A. art scene. The book was recently released, I found it today at the Museum of Contemporary Art here in Chicago.
Lately I’ve published..
1. A review of the film The Last Rites of Joe May for SAIC’s student magazine FNews
2. A blog post for Glass Quarterly. They needed some students to booth sit at the S(culptural) O(bjects) and F(unctional) A(rt) fair over the weekend and in exchange they gave me a byline. I don’t know much about glass art but I guess it worked out?
Poster by René Portocarrero, 1964
An overdue visit to the MCA today for:
1. Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks (Above: I Who Have Nothing, 2008 via bombsite.com)
2. Simon Reynolds reading from Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past and a conversation moderated by JC Gabel (part of “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s”)
James Franco, Terry Richardson, Ed Ruscha for “Rebel” at LA’s MOCA
One goal of the Immigrant Movement International, defined in a collectively written manifesto, is to bring the cause of civil rights for immigrants into the public sphere. How to do so effectively is the question. And this is the focus of a series of community meetings, the first of which I sat in on last week.
It was evident from the discussion that the merging of life and art that Ms. Bruguera envisions is still an evolving concept here […] What was clear was that everyone — about 50 people — understood the basic politics-as-performance idea and were ready to go with it.
”Politics as Performance, An Evolving Art
When I talked to Bruguera a couple of weeks ago, she had recently talked to Holland Cotter and was eager to know what the Times would publish. It seems Cotter is giving her and the Immigrant Movement International a chance.
News Item of the Week:
The Getty’s announcement of the theme of the next Pacific Standard Time project: Los Angeles/Latin America. According to their site it “will offer an in-depth exploration of the artistic connections between Los Angeles and Latin America, the relationships between Latin America and the rest of the world, the history of exchange among Latin American countries, and the Latin American diaspora.”
I’m excited, to say the least.
