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Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate NY
At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab.
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Minerva Cuevas Strikes the Gods of Environmental Destruction
In taking aim at contemporary corporations, especially oil companies, Cuevas draws a connection between colonization, trade, and the devastation of the natural world.
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Ways of Seeing, According to Roberto Gil de Montes
Nothing on the canvas wholly captures what it means to belong on land or at sea.
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Playful Compositions Center the Margins of Photographs
In Iñaki Bonillas’ work, on view in his first solo show in New York, the margins of photographs shift from negative to positive space, becoming new images in their own right.
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Political Posters that Defined the 1968 Protests in Mexico City and Paris
An exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the global clash between activist movements and their governments displays posters from Mexico and Paris.
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Gabriel Orozco Has Given Up Making Art
The artist's new installation in Mexico City, a functioning convenience store inside a gallery, peddles a false analogy between art and disposable commodities.
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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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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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Opposite Ways of Making Nothing, with Anish Kapoor and Wilfredo Prieto
MEXICO CITY — Two artists who couldn’t be more opposite — blue-chip celebrity superstar Anish Kapoor and the Cuban magician of minimalism Wilfredo Prieto — have solo shows currently on view in two of Mexico's most distinguished contemporary art spaces.
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A Lackluster Reunion for Five of Mexico's Most Successful Contemporary Artists
MEXICO CITY — Between 1987 and 1992, a group of young art students in Mexico City formed a weekly flux group of creative exchange and critique as an alternative to the overly traditional fine art education available to them.
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Considering Chocolate's Colonial History
MEXICO CITY — Chocolate is very versatile.