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Layla Fassa

Layla Fassa is a writer and independent researcher based in Mexico City. Her criticism has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Frieze, and Resident Advisor, among other publications.

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A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things

by Layla Fassa May 31, 2020June 8, 2020

In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”

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Taking in Local Projects at Zona Maco, Latin America’s Largest Art Fair

by Layla Fassa February 7, 2020

Even with art on view from dozens of countries, I found myself most drawn to work from local Mexican artists and spaces.

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A Contemporary Look at Punk From the Global to the Local

by Layla Fassa January 21, 2020January 20, 2020

To understand what it is to be punk in the 21st century, a group of scholars who identify as punks, have gathered their research into an insightful book.

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The Visionary Modernist Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx

by Layla Fassa September 10, 2019September 11, 2019

Brazilian landscape designer Burle Marx married the formal innovations of European modernism with the bursting palette of plants native to Brazil.

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How One Meme Reveals the Difference in How Humans and AI “See”

by Layla Fassa July 5, 2019June 14, 2022

As AI technology grows more sophisticated, neural networks can generate pictures people are comfortable looking at. It takes a surreal reject of an image to remind us of how differently a computer perceives the world.

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From William Blake Tattoos to Concrete Poetry, Art Books from Mexican Publishers

by Layla Fassa April 20, 2017

In its third year, the Index Art Book Fair in Mexico City had strong local representation, with independent and experimental publishing houses excelling in the art of bookmaking.

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