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Book Review
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates
09/2022 | 1434 | 164
Pages: 942-944
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
places:
Latin American / Architecture / Urban history / Urban planning / Architects
places:
Buenos Aires / Havana / Santiago de Chile / Mexico City / Rio de Janeiro / Lima
Reviewed Items
places:
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates Edited by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato. 324 pp. incl. 154 col. + 24 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), £55. ISBN 978–1–60606–694–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. ‘Raymond Special’ on the Metlac Bridge, Mexico CityVeracruz, by Charles Betts Waite. c.1897. Gelatin silver print, 19.7 by 24.1 cm. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
Book Review
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 478-480
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Boban, Eugène
places:
Mexico City / Paris
subjects:
Aztec / Rock crystals / Forgeries
subjects:
Skulls / Fakes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eug ne Boban By Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping. 348 pp. incl. 81 b. & w. ills. (Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2020),  15.95. ISBN 978–1–789–20478–0. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
7. Human skull. Probably French, mid-nineteenth century. Rock crystal, height 25 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque. By Jonathan Brown et al.
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 879-880
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Villalpando, Cristóbal de
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1749 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
United States / New York / Mexico / Mexico City / Puebla (Mexico)
subjects:
Mexican painting / Colonial / Baroque / Altarpieces / Commissions / Christian iconography / Colonialism / Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus, by Cristóbal de Villalpando. 1683. Canvas, 8.65 by 5.50 m. (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Puebla; courtesy Dirección General de Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural).
Book Review
Painted in Mexico, 1700–1760: Pinxit Mexici. Edited by Ilona Katzew
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 607-608
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Juárez , Juan Rodríguez / Juárez, Nicolás Rodríguez / Magón, José Joaquín / Morlete Ruiz, Juan Patricio / Vallejo, Francisco Antonio / Ibarra, José de / Torres, Antonio de
dates:
1700-1799
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
House of Bourbon
places:
Mexico / Mexico City / United States / Los Angeles / New York
subjects:
Mexican painting / Exhibition catalogues / Patronage / Style / Academies / Treatises / Jesuits / Globalism / Gender / Race / Politics / Iconography / Portraits / Self-portraits / Allegories / Caravaggism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico, by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz. 1770. Canvas, 96.8 by 151 cm. (National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta).
Exhibition Review
Mexican modernism. Paris and Dallas; Philadelphia, Mexico City and Houston
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 247-248
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Kahlo, Frida / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico / Grand Palais, Paris, France / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
places:
United States / Paris / Philadelphia / Mexico / Mexico City / Houston / Dallas / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Mexican painting / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Self-portrait on the border line between Mexico and the United States, by Frida Kahlo. 1932 (Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Attributed works:
79. Detail of Río Juchitán, by Diego Rivera. 1953-55 (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, on loan from Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; exh. Grand Palais, Paris, and Dallas Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
80. Optic Parable, by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. 1931 (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Exhibition Review
Walid Raad. New York, Boston and Mexico City
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 398–99
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Reviewer:
Buskirk, Martha (Buskirk, Martha)
Subjects
artists:
Raad, Walid
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, United States / Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
United States / New York / Mexico / Mexico City / Boston
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
72. Translator's introduction: Pension arts in Dubai, by Walid Raad. 2012 (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Attributed works:
73. Notebook volume 38: already been in a lake of fire, plates 57-58, by the Atlas Group/Walid Raad. 1991/2003 (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Attributed works:
74. Let's be honest, the weather helped, Saudi Arabia, by the Atlas Group/Walid Raad. 1998/2006 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; exh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Exhibition Review
Women Surrealist artists. Los Angeles, Montreal [correction - Quebec (city)] and Mexico City
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 301-302
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Reviewer:
Bradnock, Lucy (Bradnock, Lucy)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), Québec, Canada / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
Québec / Los Angeles / Mexico City
places:
United States / Mexico / Canada
print:
Surrealism
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Women artists / Surrealism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
In Wonderland: the Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States | institution: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , institution: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) , institution: Museo de Arte Moderno
Illustrations
Attributed works:
79. Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista (Woman departing from the psychoanalyst’s office), by Remedios Varo. 1960. Canvas, 70.5 by 40.6 cm. (Estate of the artist, courtesy of Mrs Walter Gruen; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
80. Birthday, by Dorothea Tanning. 1941. Canvas, 102.2 by 64.8 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Painting in the Hispanic Kingdoms. Madrid and Mexico City
04/2011 | 1297 | 153
Pages: 286-287
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Reviewer:
Bassegoda i Hugas, Bonaventura (Bassegoda i Hugas, Bonaventura; Hugas, Bonaventura Bassegoda i)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico / Palacio Real de Madrid, Madrid, Spain / Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
places:
Spain / Mexico / Mexico City / Madrid
print:
Spanish colonial paintings
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Spanish Colonial / Spanish Colonial School / Paintings
subjects:
New World Exploration
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pintura de los Reinos. Iden­tidades compartidas en el mundo hispánico | institution: Museo Nacional del Prado , institution: Palacio de Cultura Banamex , institution: Palacio Real de Madrid
Illustrations
Attributed works:
94. Allegory of the name of the Virgin Mary, by Cristóbal de Villalpando. c.1690–1700. Canvas, 183 by 291 cm. (Museo de la Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe, Mexico City; exh. Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City).
Attributed works:
95. The Immaculate Conception, by Alonso Vázquez. c.1590. Canvas, 283 by 206 cm. (Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville; exh. Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City).
Exhibition Review
Missionary art of Northern New Spain. Tijuana
10/2010 | 1291 | 152
Pages: 702-703
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Timothy (Wilson, Timothy; W., T. H.; W., T.; Wilson, Timothy H.; Thw)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
museums and institutions:
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico / Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, United States
museums and institutions:
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, United States
museums and institutions:
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
places:
Mexico City
places:
Puebla (Mexico) / Mexico / Oakland (United States) / San Antonio (United States) / United States
places:
Tijuana
print:
Missionary art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Religious art / Spanish Colonial / Spanish Colonial School
subjects:
Mexican painting / Mexican sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600–1821 | institution: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso , institution: Centro Cultural , institution: Oakland Museum of California , institution: San Antonio Museum of Art
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
55. Mezquital Crucifixion. Anonymous artist working in New Spain. c.1585. Polychromed cornstalk paste, 160 by 140 by 50 cm. (Durango Cathedral; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
Western art unattributed:
56. St Francis of Assisi. Anonymous artist working in ?Spain. Seventeenth century. Carved, polychromed and gilded wood, 130 by 65 cm. (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepoltzotlán; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
Western art unattributed:
57. The martyrdom of San Felipe de Jesús. Anonymous artist working in New Spain. c.1650. Canvas, 152.4 by 121.9 cm. (Museo Regional de Guadalupe; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
Exhibition Review
Latin America 1492-1820. Philadelphia, Mexico City and Los Angeles
11/2007 | 1256 | 149
Pages: 807-810
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Reviewer:
Bray, Xavier (Bray, Xavier)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009 / 1490-1499 / 1500-1799 / 1800-1819
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
Philadelphia / Los Angeles / Mexico City / United States / Mexico
print:
Latin American art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Art / Decorative arts / Religious art / Latin American / Aztec / Spanish Colonial
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts in Latin America 1492–1820 | institution: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso , institution: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , institution: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
86. Don Francisco de la Robe and his sons Pedro and Domingo, by Andrés Sánchez Gallque. 1599. Canvas, 92 by 175 cm. (Museo del Prado, Madrid, on deposit at the Museo de América, Madrid; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
82. Christ Child of Huanca. Peru, c.1600–10. Polychromed wood with gilding, 82 cm. high. (Church of San Pedro, Lima; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
83. Altarpiece of the Virgin of Sorrows. Mexico, c.1690. Gilt and polychromed wood, oil on panel and canvas, silver and cloth, 615 by 425.3 by 74 cm. (Fundación Televisa A.C., Mexico City; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
84. Feather mitre with infulae. Mexico, sixteenth century. Feathers glued on parchment and textile with embroidery, 40.5 by 29 cm. (mitre); 42 by 10 cm. (infulae). (Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
85. Ecce Homo. Mexico, late sixteenth century. Corn paste, painted, 54.5 cm. high. (Patrimonio Nacional, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid; exh. Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
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