Contemporary Art Reviews and Interviews

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Porfirio Gutierrez

Podcast Interview: “In our native language, there isn’t a word for art… the closest translation will be someone with wisdom—someone that serves the community… has responsibility to the community and to the ancestors…”

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Kota Ezawa

Podcast Interview: “You could also say it's like a dance on a razor's edge. And if you go towards one direction too far, you fall off. And if you go towards the other, it's a very delicate balance…”

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The Deported Artist a.k.a. Javier Salazar Rojas

Podcast Interview: "A lot of people, they just hear about deportations on the news. You hear about deportations. You hear about ICE deporting people. But what happens to people after they get deported?”

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Jiabao Li

Podcast Interview: “Censorship in China and how artists get around it is already artwork in itself. There should be a book just talking about this. Sometimes it's frustrating, but it's also getting interesting.”

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Abby Chen

Podcast Interview: “I feel there are so many things that museums need to change, of course the whole narrative, but the display, how the body gets into the museum and sees things, feels things. I think it really needs a very big makeover.”

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