LA Studio Visit
Margie Schnibbe has a jungle thing going on in the front reception area of her house, as it seems to »read more
IN LOVE WITH THE ANIMALS
Chris Kraus tours Mexicali with neo-muralist Fernando Corona
Born in the late 1970s, contemporary artist and neo-muralist Fernando Corona grew up in and around Mexicali’s vivid and visceral » read more
MEXICO as MUSE
Artists look for inspiration south of the border
“Mexico is truly the promised land for abstract art.” Anni & Josef Albers, 1936 “Mexico is the most surrealist country in » read more
FIELD REPORT: WANAS
Sweden’s Sylvan Salon
“The artist comes first,” says Marika Wachtmeister, referring to the core philosophy of Wanås, one of the most remarkable contemporary » read more
MEXICO al MAXIMO
MOLAA Curator Idurre Alonso has a passion
The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach calls itself, “The only museum in the United States exclusively dedicated » read more
PROFILES: JOAQUIN SEGURA
Throughout his 1982 book All That is Solid Melts Into Air, Marshall Berman returns over and over to a single » read more
PROFILES: Elina Chauvet
Los Zapatos Rojos
It was in 2009, while teaching art workshops in Ciudad Juárez, that artist Elina Chauvet became aware of the numbers » read more
PROFILES: Sergio Bromberg
It’s About the Ideas
In the 20th century there has long been a long tradition of artists extending their visions beyond the studio walls » read more
PROFILES: Marycarmen Arroyo Macias
Labor of Love
Meeting Marycarmen Arroyo Macias in MexiCali was a fortuitous event; she lent me her camera in a pinch to photograph » read more
PROFILES: Miguel Osuna
Around and Around
Miguel Osuna’s grandly decaying storefront studio at 4th and Spring streets is a workshop, a think tank, a popular spot » read more
PROFILES: Julio César Morales
On the Fringes
Geographical border zones figure prominently in the work of Julio César Morales, particularly those separating the U.S., where he lives, » read more
CURFEW: WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ WALL
Heaven’s gate doesn’t separate life and death like the U.S.-Mexican border. And if the rhetoric and rifles weren’t forcibly obvious » read more
Yoshua Okón of SOMA, Mexico City
More Talk, Less Art
Yoshua Okón came to prominence in the blossoming Mexico City art scene of the 1990s. In partnership with Miguel Calderón, » read more
CAMILO ONTIVEROS
Photo by Leonard Nadel, 1956 “Bracero workers being fumigated at border town Hidalgo, Texas”, Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American » read more
THE POSEUR
Ma Visits the Third World
Years ago, my good friend Eddy took me to meet his friends in Mexico City. It was my first big » read more
PROFILES, Q&A: Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
Crafty Patterns
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia loves to create objects expressing hybridized meanings, calling attention to how things are not as simple as » read more
BUNKER VISION
The Super(natural) Hero
The most interesting thing about Mexican superheroes is that the super is short for supernatural. Where such people in the » read more
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758–1823)
We all know that for a long time artists used to use the Greek myths as an excuse to paint » read more
LONDON CALLING
Rosemarie Trockel at Serpentine Gallery, London
The contemporary German artist Rosemarie Trockel, calls her current exhibition: “A Cosmos.” It’s a bold claim to announce that you » read more
FILM: SPRING BREAKERS
Harmony Korine visits the Redneck Riviera
Last year’s James Franco–curated “Rebel” show at the Joel Cohen/MOCA space included a collaboration between Hollywood’s polymathic heartthrob and indie » read more
