Art and Violence: Teresa Margolles at Museion Bolzano
“Frontera,” a powerful exhibition of art by Teresa Margolles reflecting on drug violence in northern Mexico, at the Museion in Bolzano, Italy.
Mexican Contemporary Art
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Gabriel Orozco at MoMA: Range, Power and Beauty
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco pleases both the crowds and the critics in his mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Alejandro Santiago’s “2501 Migrantes” in Oaxaca
Several years ago the Mexican artist Alejandro Santiago began sculpting 2500 not-quite-life-sized human figures out of clay. Hewn in part with a machete and daubed in the colors of peasants’ clothing, the crude but ingeniously expressive figures are lifelike both in their collectivity and their subdued individuality. They gaze at you in a way that [...]
