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Art Review: National Museum of Mexican Art celebrates La Vida Sin Fin

By Selena Fragassi, image courtesy National Mexican Museum of Art at 5:10 PM on November 18, 2008

[Above: Untitled by Anonymous, yarn in wax on wood, part of the NMMA's La Vina Sin Fin exhibit.]As Chicago marked the somber 40th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, PIlsen's National Museum of Mexican Art opened its 22nd annual La Vida Sin Fin exhibition in honor of the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, celebrated each Nov. 1 and 2. Running through Dec. 14th, the exhibit's paintings, etchings, photography and installations are dedicated to the victims of another historical coup, the Tlatelolco Massacre, which devastated Mexico City just months after the violence in our own town. ... read more

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Art Review: Point of Views @ Flat Iron Arts Building, 10/11/08

By Justine Reisinger, photo courtesy of Zsófia Ötvös at 2:00 PM on October 13, 2008

[Above: Zsófia Ötvös' "Which Hunt," in progress]Artists and galleries at Wicker Park's Flat Iron Arts Building put their bodies, puppets and artwork on display for this past weekend's Point of Views exhibit. Friday and Saturday, slide projections and performances of occupied the windows of the Flat Iron, to the delight of art lovers and drunken bar hoppers alike. ... read more