The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz’s Jippies Asquerosos (“dirty hippies”) project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.
Devon Van Houten Maldonado
Devon Van Houten Maldonado lives and works in Mexico City, by way of Portland, Oregon and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He has contributed to Paste Magazine, OZY, Terremoto and Aesthetica Magazine. He was formerly staff reporter for The News Mexico.
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A Portrait of a Predator
A video work about avian predators and their prey blends documentary and fictional narrative of the life of a bouncer in Mexico City.
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A DIY Space Is Forced to Close in Denver Amid the Post-Ghost Ship Crackdown
Residents of Rhinoceropolis, a seminal art space and DIY music venue, were kicked out of the warehouse complex last month over “serious fire code violations.”
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Doug Aitken’s Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures
‘Electric Earth’ illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.
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Untying the Knots of History Around Japanese-American Internment
Orlaineta is concerned with unpacking history and sifting through forgotten objects in order to reconstruct a story.
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How General Idea Got Specific to Confront the AIDS Crisis
A retrospective in Mexico City traces the Canadian trio’s evolution from Fluxus-inflected performance directives to twists on commercial objects and images directly addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia’s exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.
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Fake Ruins Beneath a Denver Bus Station
Beneath a disused bus station in downtown Denver, the Mexican artist collective SANGREE has shed light on the ruins of an ancient condominium complex that never existed.
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In Wake of Protests, Pacific Northwest College of Art Suspends a Master’s Program
Six days before the start of the fall semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art, a group of Master’s candidates and professors received an email from the dean of students informing them that their program was suspended and they would not be teaching or studying as planned.
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An Artist’s Plot to Unlock Luis Barragán’s Archive with a Diamond Made from His Ashes
MEXICO CITY — In a multiyear project that has exploded beyond any one gallery space, New York’s Jill Magid has reactivated the legacy of Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán.
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In His New Trio of Releases, Frank Ocean Crafts a Mortal Self-Image
At a time when we swipe through thousands of images a day and cruise through thousands of paintings in an hour at an art fair, it’s only the rarest of artworks that we return to again and again.
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A Private Collection Dedicated to Conceptual and Cumbersome Art
DENVER – Over the last 18 years, a small but loud contemporary art collection has been brewing in the Mile High City, with a mission to bring together artists’ most difficult pieces.
