Mutilation and Transformation

Brahim es un niño, un niño refugiado, que cada año es acogido en una casa de Andalucía para evitar el inhóspito desierto en el verano. Nació y está creciendo en una tierra que no es la suya, pero mantiene la "Esperanza" y tiene como meta la "Libertad". Fabrica sus juguetes como sus sueños: ver alzada su bandera, jugar libremente, tener la oportunidad de estudiar en su país y ver que su familia, sus amigos y todo un pueblo pueden vivir en paz. Brahim es el niño de las nubes, de las dunas y del desierto; es la ilusión de su pueblo y la voz de un futuro Sáhara Libre.

Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...

Artwork by Josiah McElheny. Edited by Maria do Ceu Baptista. Contributions by Louise Neri, Miguel Fernndez-Cid, Adolf Loos. Text by Jorge Luis Borges, Miwon Kwon, Michael Tarantino.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompañando una exhibición en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza,...