Don’t mess with Cupid.
Ruben C. Cordova
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Por lo tanto, hemos probado tres suculentos platillos de canibalismo como sátira, y creo que los tres son deliciosos.
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This article is the second in an annual exploration of Catrina-related phenomena in art and popular culture written for Glasstire.
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Felipe Reyes, Part 3: Struggles in Pharr and San Antonio; Race, Trump, and the 2020 Election
Cordova's final installment in the series covers works by Reyes that address the struggle for political representation and social services in Texas, reviews the “Southern Strategy” and race, and concludes with Trump and the 2020 election.
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Aquí nos echaremos un clavado a una discusión sobre más héroes y villanos.
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Blending Mexican History, Bullfighting, Spanish Art, and Opera: Cesar Martinez’s La Malinche As Carmen
La Malinche has long fascinated the San Antonio-based artist Cesar Martinez.
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The Chicano movement was galvanized by — and it became deeply identified with — the struggles of the United Farm Workers Union.
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Es un promiscuo mezclador de culturas y demoledor de las jerarquías artísticas, al igual que un satírico brillante y políticamente cáustico.
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Reyes’ 'Instant Genocide' is a critique of racism that encapsulates and embodies Trump's racist rhetoric, though it was painted decades before Trump's words were uttered.
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This is one of best exhibitions of Old Masters to tour the U.S. in recent decades, and the Kimbell Museum is one of only two U.S. venues.
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Oil Begets Oil: Wrightsman Gifts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of European Paintings
Texas oil money has never procured a collection of oil-on-canvas works nearly as magnificent as that of Charles and Jayne Wrightsman, who were the preeminent patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the last half-century.
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These rocks are repositories of eons of natural forces, and are understood as “embodiments of the dynamic transformational processes of nature.”
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Ruskin had called for realism, but for the group’s critics, this was too much realism, or the wrong kind of realism in the wrong place.
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Mexico City is place of wonder. You never know what you will find around the next corner.
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José Guadalupe Posada and Diego Rivera Fashion Catrina: From Sellout To National Icon (and Back Again?)
Why did Catrina become so popular, so central to Mexican artistic and cultural identity?
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In light of wholesale destruction, what can we say about Aztecs beliefs?
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Here we sample three meaty courses of cannibalism as satire, and I think they are all delicious.
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Chagoya is “the artist who has most effectively demonstrated the uncanny relevance of Goya’s political satire to our own times.”
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Diversifying the Superhero Canon: From Mel Casas to Renée Cox and the Department of Illegal Superheroes
Ruben Cordova breaks down multiple forms of diversity on show in the "Men of Steel, Women of Wonder" exhibition at San Antonio Museum of Art.
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Chagoya is a highly promiscuous mixer of cultures, an up-ender of artistic hierarchies, and a brilliant and caustic political satirist.