A Prophet is the prison drama that won Cannes and was the French contender to win an Oscar for foreign language film (the Argentinian movie El Secreto de Sus Ojos won) . What we call prison …
In the late 1960s in Belgrade, Marina Abramović began thinking up rebellious unrealizable performances for public spaces, just as President Tito began thinking he would ease social restrictions by turning a former police station into a …
You have to stay through 1:08 of the video below (and see also 6:59) to see in situ the four diptychs of the Lorraine OGrady photo-mural at the Whitney Biennial, paralleling the white ambulance-hearse of The …
Entering the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I expected a child to approach me, having been forewarned about the approach of a child, by friends. And a child did greet, a blond girl, about 9. She …
“Blurring the Edges,” a digital photographic project by John Bonath accompanied by a book of the photographers work, opens March 5 at Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver. John Bonath who submitted this project to this webzine …
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra talk with Ellen Berkovitch about the decade past and new border fears that paced new freedoms in many goverments of Latin America.
La Pocha Nostra ensemble works to define and describe “radical,” “performance,” “identity,” and so on, without falling prey to essentialist traps. A talk about philosophy, “spectacles” of radicalism, quantic shamanism and the fun and craziness of …
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes were at Santa Fe Art Institute working on a book, Radical Performance Pedagogy (forthcoming from Routledge Press, London). Ellen Berkovitch interviewed them about their cross-border performance collective La Pocha Nostra.
There are definitely second acts, even 35th acts, in the art world. BMWs Art Car turns 35 this year, with a pantheon of artists who have taken on the art car design challenge including Alexander Calder, …
Artpace organized a show of 13 seminal billboards by Felix Gonzales-Torres, the Cuban born Puerto Rican New Yorker who died of AIDS in 1996. Now Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and El Paso will be flaunting works …