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Shattered Illusionsnew

A Prada "store" in the middle of the high Chihuahuan Desert of far West Texas looks like a mirage, but it's actually an art installation.
Houston Press  |  Greg Harman  |  10-31-2005  |  Art
Tags: Texas, gentrification, bags, graffiti, Art Production Fund co-founder/director Doreen Remen, Berlin-based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, comment upon Western affluence and gentrification, Prada Marfa, purse, vandalism

No Virgins, No Velvet: Latin Art Is Being Redefinednew

This summer, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opened "Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America." The exhibit has been called the most important event for Latin American art in the history of the United States.
Houston Press  |  Josh Harkinson  |  11-08-2004  |  Art
Tags: Mexico, Texas, Houston, Arte Las Américas Gallery, Glassell School of Art, guest curator, Ibsen Espada, Jorge Luis Jiménez, Leo Tanguma, mural, Susie Kalil, visual arts

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