Art Review
A Guggenheim Show of Latin American Art Flops in Latin America
MEXICO CITY — Lumping together groups of artists who have nothing more in common than geography is a risky curatorial proposition that often leads to mayhem.
Devon Van Houten Maldonado
Art
An Exhibition Focused on Empty Stages and Transitional Spaces
MEXICO CITY — Art school may be the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet, where undergrads are desensitized to full-frontal nudity and cry in front of their classmates.
Art
Approaching Technology as a Second Skin
MEXICO CITY — Walking through Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pseudomatisms feels like being inside a cyborg or supercomputer.
Art
Contemporary Latin America as Told by Insiders and Outsiders
MEXICO CITY — TRUE STORY at Proyectos Monclova creates a complex interpretation of Latin America’s “truth,” invoking conversations about extreme image production, the distribution of information, and artists’ roles as translators of their circumstances.
Art
Jeremy Deller's Indelibly British Brand of Anti-Capitalist Pop
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
Art
Faux-Archaeological Artifacts of an Imagined Skater-Aztec Civilization
MEXICO CITY – “America is a big place,” Latin Americans often say in response to American exceptionalism, underlining the US's perceived reign over the rest of the continent through political and economic domination.
Books
Flipping Through Mexico City's First Art Book Fair
MEXICO CITY — On the heels of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, the Mexican capital now has its own celebration of arts publications.
Art
The Erotics of the Everyday
MEXICO CITY — Martin Soto Climent’s solo show, now on view at Proyectos Monclova, illustrates humanity’s perverse ability to sexualize everyday objects.
Art
A Show that Embraces Failure
MEXICO CITY — “I’ll just keep on ... till I get it right,” croons Tammy Wynette’s melancholy, droning voice to viewers as they enter Mexico City’s LABOR gallery.
Interview
A View of the Global Art World, from a Mexico City Curator
MEXICO CITY — Critic and historian Cuauhtémoc Medina serves as chief curator at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea, one of Latin America’s and Mexico City’s most progressive contemporary art institutions.
News
Faced with Faltering Economy, Mexican Government Slashes Arts Funding
MEXICO CITY — As the US economy has picked up steam in the last few years, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have left the peso floundering.
Art
In Mexico City, Graffiti Remembers the Disappeared
MEXICO CITY — Following the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College last September, enormous and sometimes violent protests broke out in the capital and continue today. The city’s art and public spaces have been caught in the conflict.