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Frida Kahlo or Tacos al Pastor? Mexico City Is Taking Suggestions for Municipal Emoji

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado July 6, 2017July 7, 2017

The government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of an emoji package representing this megalopolis.

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An Artist Serves Up Food for Thought About Excessive Consumption

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado June 5, 2017June 5, 2017

Raúl Ortega Ayala’s new exhibition at Proyectos Monclova includes a buffet based on a historical image of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center and a model of the Tower of Babel sculpted out of lard.

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Gabriel Orozco Has Given Up Making Art

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado March 10, 2017March 9, 2017

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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On a Foggy Film Set, Karl Marx Sings “The Internationale”

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado February 27, 2017February 27, 2017

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.

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How General Idea Got Specific to Confront the AIDS Crisis

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado December 20, 2016December 21, 2016

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

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado December 6, 2016December 6, 2016

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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An Artist’s Plot to Unlock Luis Barragán’s Archive with a Diamond Made from His Ashes

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado September 1, 2016

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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A Billboard Gallery Brings Art to the Masses of Mexico City

by Ray Mark Rinaldi August 26, 2016

MEXICO CITY — A piece of art that arrives plastered on a billboard might understandably be considered an attempt to strike a blow against the cultural status quo.

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Opposite Ways of Making Nothing, with Anish Kapoor and Wilfredo Prieto

by Devon Van Houten Maldonado August 5, 2016August 4, 2016

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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The Fight to Save a Land Art Masterpiece in the Heart of Mexico City

by Claire Voon June 13, 2016June 15, 2016

Situated within one of Mexico City’s remaining areas of untouched land, Espacio Escultórico is considered by many as one of Latin America’s most significant works of land art.

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Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour

by Claire Voon June 13, 2016June 14, 2016

Visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to view Michelangelo’s frescoes, but the fingers of God and Adam are now also meeting in Mexico City in a recently revealed, full-size replica of the entire building.

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In Mexico City, an Indie Library Builds a Community Around Art Books

by Lucia Hinojosa June 9, 2016June 11, 2016

MEXICO CITY — Aeromoto, a small public library founded at the beginning of 2015 in the Juárez neighborhood, evolved gradually and continues to mature as a cohesive and challenging project.

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