After being denied by US ad companies, Mitch O’Connell took his billboard depicting President Donald Trump as a sinewy alien to Mexico City, where it now prominently hangs.
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A Blind Artist Looks Back at Growing Up in the ’90s
In 2014, Manuel Solano lost his eyesight from an HIV-related infection. His new works treat that experience as the generative event for his art.
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Frida Kahlo or Tacos al Pastor? Mexico City Is Taking Suggestions for Municipal Emoji
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
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
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”
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
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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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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A Billboard Gallery Brings Art to the Masses of Mexico City
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
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
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.