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...also duck in from the heat and visit any number of Cartagena's cultural gems - from the stunning Museo de Oro (Gold Museum, at Plaza Bolívar) and Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft...
...cuenta de que es una evangelista. No del tipo que predica sobre Dios. A quien quiere que conozcas es a Gego, el escultor venezolano nacido en Alemania ?que solo ahora empezamos a redescubrir?, o a Joaqu?n Torres Garc?a, el artista uruguayo que usa toques precolombinos en su estilo moderno. Como te dir? Ram?rez felizmente, su misi?n es ?presentarle al mundo la riqueza y el significado del arte latino y latinoamericano del siglo...
...historia del arte moderno es como una gira empaquetada de las obvias ciudades -Par?s, Nueva York, Mosc?, Berl?n- la versi?n de Ram?rez tambi?n pasa por Buenos Aires, S?o Paulo, y Caracas, entre otros lugares. En su opini?n, el arte moderno en Latinoam?rica suele tener una dimensi?n pol?tica, algo que las usuales definiciones acad?micas del modernismo, con su ?nfasis en las cuestiones de forma, han tenido dificultad en admitir. Aunque Ram?rez tiene un Ph.D. de la Universidad de Chicago en historia del arte, dice que ?mis modelos de conducta nunca fueron los acad?micos. Vengo de una tradici?n donde los intelectuales...
...Sociedad de Arte Moderno had lovingly collected 330 examples of native Mexican sculpture, mounted them in a dazzling exhibit. The show was loosely called Mascaras Mexicanas (Mexican Masks) - but along with the religious, ceremonial and dance masks was a colorful assortment of sculptured heads originally designed as decorations for jewelry, pot tery, architecture...
...Mexico City Picasso show was gathered by the town's newest art association, Sociedad de Arte Moderno (Modern Art Society). In the Society's rented gallery on the Paseo de la Reforma, all kinds of Picassos were hung-from the posterish Harlequin to the Seated Woman (see cut), an example of Picasso's attempt to capture a figure from several angles simultaneously. Dropped at the last minute was a plan to show a large reproduction of Picasso's famed Guernica mural, a graphically violent protest against Franco's atrocities during the Spanish Civil...