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| Art Brief |
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| Santos Chavez's unique wood engravings transmit a singular vision of Chile |
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| Book Review |
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| Courtesy of Espectador |
| Eugenio Berrios: a chemist of the macabre school |
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Top Cultural Story
LEAVING THEIR MARX: THE ARTISTS WHO AREN’T THERE
Post-Marx: Rethinking the Utopian Society
(August 6, 2004) The Post-Marx exhibition at Vitacura’s hyper-trendy Galería Animal opened on Wednesday in a haze of designer suits, leather trousers and expensive haircuts that would have had Trotski reddening in his grave.
Film Review
MACHUCA: MORE PERSONAL THAN POLITICAL
The Highly Anticipated Chilean Film Opens at Home
(August 6, 2004) The wait is finally over for Chileans: “Machuca,” directed by Andres Wood, a Chilean filmmaker who was eight-years-old during the military coup in 1973, opened in Santiago theaters yesterday.
Art Brief
THE WEIGHT OF A LINE: THE SANTOS CHAVEZ RESTROSPECTIVE
(August 6, 2004) There is a potent stillness that pervades the current exhibit, “Santos Chávez: Wood Engravings and Linoleum Prints” at the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art. The same hushed effect produced by certain poems lingers in the exhibit’s three rooms: just as the ultra-fine selection of words can produce a subtle, but penetrating effect in poetry, the engravings emit an immediate and meditative message.
Book Review
FUSING FACT AND FICTION: THE STORY OF PINOCHET’S CHEMIST
A Uruguayan Novel Based on the Curious Case of the Chemist Who Knew Too Much
(August 6, 2004) A car-bomb goes off in the heart of Washington, killing a former Unidad Popular leader. An ex-president of Chile and opponent of the Pinochet regime is poisoned and dies. And one of the dictator’s chemists, the creator of a version of Sarin gas, is assassinated by his former brothers-in-arms, following the return of democracy to Chile. As Dickens put it in “Bleak House:” “What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world who from opposite sides of great gulfs have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together?”
Cultural Announcements
THIS WEEK'S CULTURAL LISTINGS
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Top Cultural Story |
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| Courtesy of Galeria Animal |
| 'History and Geography': visions of a world not for sale |
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Top Cultural Story |
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| Courtesy of Galeria Animal |
| How we live now: O-inc and co's karaoke bubble |
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Film Review |
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| Chilean film "Machuca" arrives in Chile |
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Art Brief |
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| "Homage to my people"(1978) was Chavez's quiet but powerful statement about the political unrest in the decade |
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