Cubaist Portrait
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Cubaist Portrait

ByJonathan Curiel

Habitually detained by Cuban authorities, Tania Bruguera’s art combines performance with activism. She’s even running for president (although she will not win.) Published in SF Weekly on June 14, 2017: http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/art/cubaist-portrait/ The Cuban police and officials who have interrogated Tania Bruguera — and who continue to interrogate her whenever she’s on the island — resort to…

Scream and Shout: Edvard Munch at SFMOMA
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Scream and Shout: Edvard Munch at SFMOMA

ByJonathan Curiel

(Published in SF Weekly on June 29, 2017: http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/art/scream-and-shout-edvard-munch-at-sfmoma/) Surrounded at an early age by familial deaths from tuberculosis, an ominous fear that he would be “next,” and the worrisome nature of his religiously conservative father, Edvard Munch was on edge through much of his life. This sense of unease infused his work with a psychological and emotional…