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A review is offered for art galleries located in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico including RGR, Le Laboratoire and Galería de Arte Mexicano.

ASMA's recent two-part show, 'Inverse satiro envy' (Inverse Satyr Envy), curated by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, was an enigmatic pairing of the artist duo--Ecuador-born Matias Armendaris and Mexico-native Hanya Belia--with Julio [...]

'Paisajes' (Landscapes) was Ana Segovia's third solo show at Karen Huber, a gallery focused mainly on painting. In the first two, the artist honed his craft, landing on a striking [...]

MEXICO CITY Tin, jewelry, and iron fences have been persistent in the work of Josef Strau, an Austrian identified with the Conceptual art scene that emerged from Cologne in the [...]

The first solo show in Mexico City by young Ecuadorian artist Pablo Andino opened during the city's Art Week, but it worked even better a few days after all the [...]

Debora Delmar is an astute critic of the aesthetic habits of her own class. Brought up in a cushy golf club in the moneyed southern part of Mexico City, she [...]

Jill Magid's show at Labor was also the fourth iteration of her traveling exhibition 'Tender,' which was previously presented in Chicago, Fort Worth, and New York, or maybe the fifth, [...]

MEXICO CITY Viewers entered 'Lagrimas secas' (Dry Tears), the recent show by Berlin-based Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca, through a dimly lit indigo tunnel. It led to a wall illuminated by [...]

Carolina Fusilier's work has previously concerned itself with the metaphysics of the nonhuman, even the inorganic: To what gods do machines pray? In her latest exhibition, Fusilier expanded on that [...]

'The Light Comes from Within' CAMPECHE I'm fed up with the trend of all-women shows. So many of them are put together carelessly, with curators assuming a shared gender to [...]

Mexico City's Art Week, organized by the ZonaMaco fair in the last week of April, brought out many spur-of-the-moment, impulsive-feeling offerings as it spread throughout the capital's gallery districts. These [...]

The fox is elusive. Or maybe it's a coyote? It's hard to tell, because the 3D modeling is less than perfect, plus I'm chasing it with an iPad using augmented-reality [...]

As objects, the individual pieces in Hector Zamora's exhibition 'Movimientos emisores de existencia' (Existence-Emitting Movements) were intriguing. Gathered together in a large oblong island at the center of the gallery, [...]

A pair of serene yet stern portraits welcomed the viewer into Kurimanzutto's airy space--the same short gray hair, white T-shirt, focused blue eyes, and flat, contented smile were duplicated in [...]

PUEBLA, MEXICO 'The Missing Circle' MUSEO AMPARO An art exhibition dealing with the history of violence in the whole of Latin America could never have been other than sprawling. Curated [...]

I had a lot of curiosity coming into this exhibition. It had been three years since Gaga had shown a local artist; Karla Kaplun is young, and 'La Compahia' (The [...]

The article reviews the art exhibition "To Live Forever (For a While)," which features works of British artist Damien Hirst, being presented at Museo Jumex in Mexico from March 23 to August 25, 2024.

Looking at Lewis Hammond's deeply introverted works online before I ventured out of the house earlier this summer to see his show 'Still Life,' I could imagine the oil paint [...]

MEXICO CITY 'Elements of Vogue' MUSEO UNIVERSITARIO DEL CHOPO 'Elements of Vogue. Un caso de estudio de performance radical' (Elements of Vogue: A Case Study in Radical Performance) welcomes the [...]

Danh Vo KURIMANZUTTO Entering Danh Vo's exhibition, visitors immediately faced a scaffolding-like wooden construction lined with foil mirrors. The gallery contained three such structures, made up of wooden beams supporting [...]

'It matters what ideas we use to think other ideas,' according to the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, as quoted by Donna J. Haraway in her 2016 book Staying with the Trouble. [...]

'Dar forma al tiempo' MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Lima used to feel half-abandoned. Erected on the edge of a picturesque artificial pond in a beloved [...]

The article reviews the art exhibition "Execution/Ejecución," which features paintings of artist Laura Langer, presented at Lodos art gallery in Mexico from November 30, 2023 to January 27, 2024.

The article reviews an solo exhibition titled "Watch Yourself," by artist, Robin F. Williams at MORÁN MORÁN in Mexico City.

The article explores the art and social scene of Mexico and Mexico City as of 2019. Noted are the social issues faced by women, including instances of inequality, assault and violence. The work of artist Betzabeth Torres is discussed, she belongs to the collective Mamífieras, whose manifesto states their goal as creating alliances among women and bringing bodies together for free movement in public space. The work of the writer and researcher Susana Vargas is also discussed.

An interview with the Mexican artist Pia Camil is presented. Particular focus is given to how her work offers a critique of modernism. Additional topics discussed include her work in performance art, her use of recycled t-shirts and other materials in her work and how she views herself as not being precious about her work.

The article reviews the art exhibition titled "Anteanoche" at Commonwealth and Council in Mexico City.

The article reviews the exhibition "Ana Segovia" at the Galería Karen Huber in Mexico City, Mexico.

The article reviews the exhibition "Josef Strau: El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos" at House of Gaga in Mexico City, featuring paintings created using the esoteric divinatory practice of lithomancy, alongside a scenography of juxtaposed objects.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Huyamos a Buenos Aires, nadie podrá encontrarnos," featuring conceptual and media art by Roberto Jacoby, at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, Mexico.

The article reviews Pablo Andino's exhibition "Como un tiro, un clavel" at a gallery in Mexico City, which features installations that capture the experience of a party's aftermath and the absurdity of substance use.

The article reviews the exhibition "Maternar" at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City.

The article reviews the sculptural installation art exhibition featuring works by artist Yeni Mao, at the Campeche gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Tender" featuring work of artist Jill Magid at the Labor in Mexico City, Mexico as of October 2022.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Dry Tears" at the Travesia Cuatro in Mexico City, Mexico featuring work of artist Donna Huanca.

The article reviews exhibition of Carolina Fusilier at Daniela Elbahara, Mexico City.

The article offers information related to art exhibition to be held at Proyectos Monclova Gallery in Los Angeles in 2020 and featuring works of Mexican artist Yoshua Okón.

The article reviews the painting exhibition of artist Paul P. at the Lulu gallery in Mexico City, Mexico as of February 2020.

The article offers review for the exhibition "Las cosas suceden de forma silenciosa" (Things Happen in a Silent Way by ASMA and Jorge Satorre held at Labor, Mexico city.

The article reviews an exhibition by Julien Ceccaldi at the House of Gaga in Mexico City, Mexico in 2019.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Tender Trick," which featured works by the artist Jessie Makinson, held at the OMR gallery in Mexico City, Mexico, in 2019.

The article reviews the 2019 exhibition "Scarlata" at the Ruth Benzacar gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring works by artist Valentina Liernur.

The article reviews exhibitions by Gabriel Rico at Gallery OMR in Mexico City, Mexico including "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge" is a work of fiction that Carlos Castaneda passed off as thrilling anthropology back in the golden era of New Age California.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Missing Circle" curated by Magalí Arriola and organized by Museo Amparo in collaboration with nonprofit organization Kadist and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia.

The article reviews a painting exhibition featuring works of painter Karla Kaplun at the Gaga art gallery in Mexico city, Mexico in 2021.

The article offers information on the oil paint recoiling from the overhead fluorescent lights, suspecting their glare would cover entire sections of the canvas with a flat, pale sheen including examines that the paintings are fleshy, or flesh-threatening: cuddles, bites, and spikes.

The article offers information related to art exhibition "Elements of Vogue" held at Museo Universitario del Chopo Gallery in Mexico City and featuring works of artists including David Bronstein.

The article discusses a mixed media exhibition by artist Danh Vo at the Kurimanzutto art gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.