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...
Art MoCo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
What would it be like to own a piece of Twiggy, the Stones or Carla Bruni? Or if they aren't to your liking, choose from Hemingway, Frida Kahlo or Salvador Dalì. Artnet's Faces and Figures auction features 375 photos...
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 . . .
Attorney Street (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The water gave me madness incessant humming blood the water remembers the torn torso melting through a seashell’s portholes the quadrangular tight-rope of death disease slaughtered women the trade in gold and spirit of five hundred nations drifting the water remembers the water is clarity the water remembers offers back hurricane the water remembers hides [...]
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Image: Frida Kahlo, Love Embrace of the Universe A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr. In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace....
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...
let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
'Why are there so few women directors? Oh my God, I want to shake everyone and ask them that question' What got you started? My impatience with waiting for life to happen. For seven years, I made films in the cinéma vérité tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films....
maya*made (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This weekend was all about delicious food and beautiful weather. On Saturday, we had a wonderful dinner with friends. Because each of us had a personal connection to Mexico, our thoughtful hosts prepared a feast with many recipes from this special cookbook- Frida's Fiesta: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo . Frida's stepdaughter, Guadelupe Rivera, compiled over 1oo recipes that she...
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...
Madam Mayo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
If you're anywhere in the neighborhood of San Miguel de Allende this Thursday November 12, don't miss this! As part of the San Miguel Literary Sala series, Sandra Gulland will be talking about her latest and splendid novel, Mistress of the Sun, and Barbara Levine will also be talking about her book, Finding Frida Kahlo. This takes place at 5 pm in the Hotel Posada San Francisco (across from the
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.
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