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La conmovedora historia de un vigilante de museo que encuentra consuelo y significado en su día a día entre los pasillos del Museo Metropolitano de Arte. Una obra imprescindible para los amantes del arte.Millones de personas suben cada año la gran escalinata de marmol para visitar el Museo Metropolitano de Arte, pero solo una privilegiada minoria tiene acceso ilimitado a todos sus rincones y recovecos: son los vigilantes, que deambulan discretamente en trajes azul marino, con un ojo atento al tesoro de 185.000 metros cuadrados.Absorto en el inicio de su glamorosa carrera en The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley nunca imagino que acabaria siendo uno de ellos. Todo cambio cuando a su hermano mayor le diagnosticaron un cancer terminal, momento en el cual sintio la imperiosa necesidad de alejarse del bullicio cotidiano. Asi, dejo el semanal y busco consuelo en el lugar mas bello que conocia.Para su sorpresa, y para deleite del lector, este refugio se convirtio en su segundo hogar durante una decada. Lo seguimos mientras custodia delicados tesoros desde Egipto hasta Roma, pasea por los laberintos bajo las galerias, desgasta nueve pares de zapatos y se maravilla ante las bellas obras bajo su cuidado. Bringley entra en el museo cual fantasma, silencioso y casi invisible, pero pronto encuentra su voz y su tribu: las obras de arte y sus creadores, y la vivida subcultura de los vigilantes del museo un magnifico mosaico de artistas, musicos, operarios incondicionales, inmigrantes, bromistas y soñadores . Conforme se fortalecen sus vinculos con sus colegas y con el arte, llega a comprender lo afortunado que es al vivir entre las paredes de ese pequeño universo que tanto se asemeja a las mejores facetas de nuestro mundo, al que regresa con gratitud de manera gradual.Toda la belleza del mundo es un retrato sorprendente e inspirador de un magnifico museo, sus tesoros ocultos y las personas que lo mantienen en funcionamiento, escrito por uno de sus mas intimos observadores.

When Abdul Rahman Munif embarked on the first extensive study in Arabic about Marwan Kassab Bachi, he mailed the artist asking about how his art emerged, its contextual influences, and timely interpretations. Marwan recorded his answers on seven audio tapes and sent them to Munif, but also started writing his memoirs in Arabic. This book is an anthology of the letters exchanged between two friends, Marwan in Berlin and Munif in Damascus, from 1990 to 2004.

When Abdul Rahman Munif embarked on the first extensive study in Arabic about Marwan Kassab Bachi, he mailed the artist asking about how his art emerged, its contextual influences, and timely interpretations. Marwan recorded his answers on seven audio tapes and sent them to Munif, but also started writing his memoirs in Arabic. This book is an anthology of the letters exchanged between two friends, Marwan in Berlin and Munif in Damascus, from 1990 to 2004.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (19542012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman. Kelleys provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times in performance, writing, painting, drawing, sculpture, banners, multimedia installation, appropriated objects and images and video, as well as numereous collaborations. This volume includes reflections on specific works, and features a signature series of pathbreaking essays on Kelleys innovations in photography and writing as well as explorations of major themes in his practice, research and thinking: physical comedy and verbal humor; memory; popular culture, dress-up and Americana; the uncanny; imaginative projection and dark fantasy; appropriation and giving; authorship and self-construction; and the artists littleremarked upon negotiation with the histories of and ideas about Asia. The book concludes with new essays on Kelleys engagement with animals and the nonhuman; and on the refrain disappearances that punctuate Kelleys career set in relation to specters of social catastrophe and nuclear annihilation.

Niki de Saint Phalle loved pseudo-orders, which she used to arbitrarily assemble terms and pictograms on a sheet of paper. Under the heading I Love, for example, the sign of a snake can be found next to the emblem for justice, an orange spot for the corresponding color next to two stars as a symbol for astrology.Niki de Saint Phalle AZ takes the same liberty and puts the many facets of Niki de Saint Phalles work into the order of the alphabet. This logical order is deceptive, though. From A as in AIDS to Z as in Zurich Angel, from B as in Bride to V as in Vanitas, a mosaic of concepts emerges that filters out the various levels of meaning in her manifold oeuvre and playfully engages them in mutual commentary.NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE (19302002) is one of the most important artists and sculptors of her generation. Growing up in Paris and New York, she returned to Paris in the 1950s, where she began her artistic career with her legendary "shooting" series. Her sensual female figures, the Nanas, gained her widespread popularity.