Stories By Alicja Gluszek
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Painting of the Week: Francisco Toledo, Frog
November 24, 2019This is an unusual watercolor diptych by the late Mexican artist Francisco Toledo, who died this year. The work encompasses two totally opposite scenes; the sensual and intimate painting on the left hand side called Sapo...
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La Calavera Catrina. A Skeleton Lady
October 28, 2019We all know Coco, a Pixar animation about a boy who dreams of becoming a musician, so he enters a talent contest, suddenly disappears from this world and finds himself in the after life, among the...
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All the Fuss and Feathers in Pre-Columbian Art
October 7, 2019Artisans in pre-Columbian and colonial Mexico, as in Peru, used feathers to create exquisite adornments for nobles, fancy textiles for the elite, and provided feather embellishments for the shields and military costumes of the warriors. It...
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The Largest Mural on Earth
September 16, 2019Early Fall, for students around the world, means one thing: back to school, back to writing papers, and exam preparations. For students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), it means back to Ciudad Universitaria,...
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Djanira da Motta e Silva: Gentle Documentalist of Brazilian Life
September 4, 2019Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914-1979) was born in a very humble family, in Avare, San Paulo state in Brazil. She started to paint in her twenties when she was hospitalized due to tuberculosis. Before becoming...
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Painting of the Week: Djanira da Motta e Silva, Três Orixás
August 25, 2019Djanira pictured a very unusual Holy Trinity made of three deities from the Afrobrazilian Pantheon. They are accompanied by musicians playing drums to call ancient spirits and gods for their appearance here and now, on earth,...
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Painting of the Week: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Madame Thadée Natanson at the Theater
August 11, 2019Henri Toulouse Lautrec is famous for the portrayals of Paris nightlife: cabarets, theatres and brothels. He showed us the world of decadence and escape from the urban malaise where his friends, muses, patrons collided. In this...
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Painting of the Week: Miguel Covarrubias, The Mexican Street Scene
July 14, 2019An ordinary, rather empty street in the Mexican countryside. Two people. In the center, a woman with closed eyes, covered by a blue shawl. Pensive. Motionless. Behind her, a man heading towards us. Miguel Covarrubias draws...
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Painting of the Week: José María Velasco Gómez, The Metlac Ravine
July 7, 2019The Metlac Ravine is like a huge postcard sent in the past that captures the monumental nature of the southern, coastal state of Mexico-Veracruz and the speeding modernization of the country that took place in the...
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VIA Arts Prize: Check if This Competition Is for You!
June 25, 2019A prestigious solo exhibition in London, a monetary prize and exposure to collectors interested in Latin American, Spanish or Portuguese art await those who dare to submit their works to the well established and renowned VIA...
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