Includes prose by Tony Burgess, Christy Ann Conlin, Ian Ferrier, Madeline Monette, Hal Niedzvicki, Timothy Taylor; Play excerpts by François Archambault, Jean Marc Dalpé, Carole Fréchette, Marie Laberge, Larry Tremblay; Art by Louise Belcourt; "Miniatures," by Geneviéve Letarte; Special Feature: "The Parable of the Tapeworm," by Mario Vargas Llosa.
This is the catalogue of the 2003 stunning exhibition Puerto Rican Light, where Allora & Calzadilla used a variety of representational means to convey light from the island.
Essays taking a look at urban writers and their influence on the Latin American canon.
Let me open with the following image: In 1965, a wrecking ball was about to hit a row of beautiful brownstone mansions on Park Avenue in Manhattan to make way for condominiums.
Burt Glinn's photographs—of Fidel thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history.
Rather than simply presenting a set of pictures, the works drawn for Pictures of You by the four Mexican artists, Inaki Bonillas, Minerva Cuevas, Mario Garcia-Torres, and Yoshua Okon, can be seen as artistic propositions that underline the significance and potential of imagination.