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Sneak peek: Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America

The recent coverage of artist Ai Weiwei’s planned use of Legos in an artwork about free speech to be included in the exhbition “Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei” at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia (book forthcoming early next year) has sensitized us to other examples of the play blocks’

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The Funk & Wag: Live!

If you are in Houston, here’s where you should be at 7:00 this evening. If you are not in Houston but you know someone who is, you would be kind to let them know that artist Mel Chin and writer Nick Flynn are appearing at the Menil Collection to launch Mel Chin’s new artist’s book, The Funk

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Gego’s Reticulárea: Transcending Space and Time

As Gego exhibitions sweep across Europe this spring, (currently at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and coming soon to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London), we are celebrating the recent release of the magnificent book Untangling

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Antonio Berni’s Fictional Portraits: An Adapted Excerpt from the Exhibition Catalogue

The current Museum of Fine Arts, Houston exhibition, Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona, focuses on the Argentinian artist Antonio Berni (1905–1981) and specifically on the assemblages to which he devoted 15 of the last years of his life and career.  These works tell the life stories of two characters of

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