4.05.2009
4.04.2009
whoKnew... IowansCould?
Unanimous in Iowa
Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban
In small-town Midwest, a giant leap for gay marriage
Iowa legalizes same-sex marriage
FARMER KNOWS BEST...
give me your rich yellow corn
to make some ethanol
give me your rich brown wheat
to make some tasty breed:
a young black democrat
for a brand new twist
your tired pink queers
for some spicy cheers...
indeed a new
tasty creed
© sonomataumo
cartoon by Justin DeFreitas
4.03.2009
YmIcrófoNoAbiertO
© sonomataumo
4.02.2009
CherryPinkWinoGrand
Garry Winogrand, At the Moroccan, 1955
Perez Prado, Cerezo Rosa / Ni hablar.... funky, fun... and cherrrrrry pinque
4.01.2009
3.31.2009
conFrontation = con-la-frente-en-alto
Yoani Sánchez, en vivo y a todo color
durante su performance en la Bienal de La Habana, la artista cubana Tania Bruguera brindó micrófonos abiertos al público... y hablaron, los cubanos asfixiados hablaron ... ahora habrá que ver... who was listening...
Que un día la libertad de expresión en Cuba no sea un performance. Claudia Cadelo, en 8voCerco
from The Miami Herald,
....It was a surreal scene, made more so by the biennial's website description billing the festival as ''a space for confrontation and reflection of particular relevance in the international scene of the fine arts.''
La Bienal de La Habana, espacio de confrontación y reflexión...
3.30.2009
indestructible
primo, me la pusiste en china...
en China
click on image to enlarge.. pinchar sobre imagen para ampliarla...
3.29.2009
amanecer en el tropicool
click on image to fully appreciate nature´s joke-pinchar la imagen para apreciar la broma de la naturalezaah, cuba, tus hijos lloran...
3.28.2009
apagón por el futuro: EARTH HOUR
LA HORA DEL PLANETA
apaga las luces a las 8:30 pm hoy
por una hora ... por el futuro
vía la tacubita
Ya NO longer esos trapitos...
click on image to fully appreciate work-pinchar la imagen para apreciar la obra
A 'Space' That's Filled by History's Shadow
"Space, Unlimited" at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC
reseña del Washington Post
... Head upstairs to the museum's second floor for the exhibition's standout: a glorious extravagance of an installation called "Spring Sprang Sprung." (The piece alone justifies a visit.) A massive tree-shaped sculpture by artist-duo Guerra de la Paz (Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, both Cuban-born and now living in Miami)...
Back to "Spring Sprang Sprung." This rich, bewildering artwork is the best kind of political art -- stealthy in its opinion but firm in its conviction. And, like the best works in the history of landscape -- I'm thinking of Nicolas Poussin's Arcadian revels or John Constable's anti-Industrial Revolution pastorals -- it's about more than just the shrubbery...
Touché, boys.... ¡pa´lante!
3.27.2009
la teta asustada... y premiada
'La teta asustada', mejor película iberoamericana en México - EFE - Guadalajara - 28/03/2009 - La película peruana La teta asustada ha sido galardonada con el premio al Mejor Largometraje Iberoamericano en la 24 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara.... El filme de Perú, dirigido por Claudia Llosa y que derrotó a la española Camino, de Javier Fesser, y a la cubana El cuerno de la abundancia, de Juan Carlos Tabío, entre otras, se llevó también el premio a Mejor Actriz Iberoamericana, Magaly Solier....
Para más información sobre esta linda peruana, vayan a este blog, la primera palabra , para ver una estupenda entrevista que Jaime Baily le hace a Magaly Solier, donde las dos actrices se lucen...
La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow)
by Claudia Llosa, Perú
Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at The Berlinale 2009THE MILK OF SORROW Fausta is ill with a disease contracted from her mother’s breast milk known as “the milk of sorrow”. However, this is not a sickness caused by bacteria or infection: it is a condition that only affects those women in Peru who were abused or raped during the years of terrorist struggle. Although this horrific period is now history, Fausta is nonetheless a living reminder of this time. Her sickness is called fear – and it has robbed her of her soul. But then, when her mother suddenly dies, Fausta is forced to face her fears. The overpowering nature of these fears, and the desperate lengths to which Fausta will go to assuage them is revealed by her biggest secret: in order to bar loathsome intruders from entering her body she has inserted a potato into her vagina as a kind of antibacterial ‘defence shield’. However, her mother’s death unleashes unexpected events that change Fausta’s life dramatically, as well as the lives of others involved. Fausta now sets out on a journey – a journey that will lead her out of her fear and into freedom. Peruvian director Claudia Llosa’s film addresses a dark era of her country’s history. Established in 2001, the Peruvian ‘commission for truth and reconciliation’ (Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación, CVR) has registered almost 70,000 murder cases, as well as countless rapes, abductions and other human rights abuses in the period from 1980 to the year 2000.
vitaminsFORartGAME
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....This week, at least 10 groups from museums like the Bronx Museum and El Museo del Barrio in New York secured humanitarian visas so they could fly into Havana. (The Bronx Museum delegation packed vitamins into their luggage to donate during their stay.) ....Eso, que le regalen muchas vitaminas a los artistas a cambio de unos cuantos lienzos... patrones del arte u otros tiburoncitos más al acecho...
Untitled piece by Alberto Casado, on display at Aglutinador, an alternative art space in Havana. Photo by ven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo/Getty Images
vía PD: penúltimos días
3.26.2009
a navaja con el tiburón
a ver, Rubencito, qué me dices de los nuevos tiburoncitos... ¿aprendieron o no la lección?