Literanista (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Lacuna In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from...
LAist (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Photo by Franco Folini via Flickr ART Santa Ana's Bowers Museum of Cultural Art hosts LATITUDES: Latin American Artists from the Femsa Collection , an art exhibit, through January 17th. Featuring a variety of works by Latin American heavyweights such as Diego Rivera , Wilfredo Lam and Frida Kahlo , the exhibit includes pieces representative of surrealism and abstraction, as well as portraits, murals...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In Kingsolver’s capacious historical novel, Harrison Shepherd, the son of a Mexican flirt and a stolid American bureaucrat, has a remarkable life: cook for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, secretary to Trotsky, and acclaimed author denounced as a Communist by HUAC. The story is narrated mostly through Shepherd . . .
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, I'm sorry to report, confirms that extended fermentation does not guarantee a vintage read I've waited nine years for a new Barbara Kingsolver novel, and the setting for her latest couldn't have appealed to me more. The Lacuna shuttles between the 1930s Mexico of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and the United States just as McCarthyism takes hold. One of my favourite...
The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the January 16th issue include: The Lacuna , by Barbara Kingsolver. HarperCollins. NOVEL. EW's slant: "I so wanted to love this sprawling, old-fashioned historical novel... but the book - told through newspaper clippings, letters, bits of memoirs, and the like - never quite...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The painting shown above, a 1968 watercolor by American artist Jim Dine, has an interesting story. The work was originally commissioned by Capitol Records for a Beatles album which was never made because the Beatles left Capitol and formed the Apple Records label. The graphite and watercolor on vellum lot of five works depict individual toothbrushes labeled for each member of the band The pieces,...
let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I love the work of Frida Kahlo, my favourite modern painter by far. I really only discovered her properly a couple of years ago when I visited Mexico City, where I went to visit the Blue House where she was born, now a museum; the place where she lived as an artist, worked as an artist and died as an artist; the place she shared for a time with Diego Rivera, Mexico’s other modern icon. I love...
Suck It Up (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The first thing I do on Sunday morning besides drink coffee is read the New York Times Book Review . This week I got Stephen King's On Writing from the library and began reading it last night. A real mashup of happy and sad and poigant and pithy. I laughed out loud at his hijinx with the high school newspaper, because it reminded me so much of my younger self. The book review featured King's new novel,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This long-awaited novel recalls a dangerous era for artists. By Maya Jaggi Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years takes a huge risk in venturing into copiously charted territory. It moves from the muralists and surrealists of the 1930s in the aftermath of the Mexican revolution to the McCarthyite witch-hunt of artists in the late 40s and 50s. Yet in crossing and recrossing the US-Mexican border,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Odd. The Lacuna is no Barbara Kingoslver I know: Barbara Kingsolver provides a foil to this tendency with The Lacuna, all the more remarkable, it's fair to say, given the position reserved for it on best-seller lists. The novel's own artifactualness is never in question, since, to highlight the deceptive ways we both perceive and receive history, Kingsolver has dreamed up a series of private journals,...
Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Frida Kahlo 9 x 12 inches Oil Painting Connoisseur Wine Masters Series SOLD 10 minutes after posting Thanks MS from Canada I was so blown away by Frida's life story that I was compelled too paint her. However, portraits are really not my cup, especially in miniature of tea so I think my impression of her is close. She was very difficult to paint as she has many masculine features, a huge uni -brow...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today arrives Barbara Kingsolver’s latest, Lacuna, “an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover.” Also out are a couple more of those nifty “Olive Editions” from HarperCollins, this time of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass last week unveiled its annual Rakow Commission: Rey del Cenote, by Panamanian artist Isabel De Obaldía. The distinctive sand-cast sculpture by De Obaldía draws on ancient and tribal art. The title of her commission refers to the crocodile as the king of the cenote, which is a deep natural well. In ancient times, sacrifices to the gods often took...
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