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badjonesrising asked: It isn't mine, but what about the famous "A Bigger Splash" by pop artist David Hockney? When I think of pools, summer, and water, I think of that painting. I love Talk Back Tuesday.

PS I LOVE YOUR BLOG AND EVERYTHING YOU WRITE. You guys are so much better than those hype mags that treat artist like celebrities and use art in all the wrong ways and for all the wrong...
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TALK BACK TUESDAY
It’s that time of the week yet again. Send in your submissions. Send in your questions, your comments, your suggestions! Tell us what you liked, hated, or are curious about! Send in an on-theme (swimming pools this week) art work! What you got, we wanna see it! Thank you!
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swimmiesofdoom asked: also regarding the idea about fake borders, it is true some indian tribes were unique to either "mexico" or "the united states", but many other were not. there is a reason the apache wars were fought in both places, for example.

we like this series of art very much!
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mysticus-perscrutia-deactivated asked: About the art of Carlos Cortez and especially what it says, I think it goes a little deeper than the use of certain terms. I believe it goes back to the European taking of another people's land and now the imaginary boundaries set by a politically powerful empire. Of course USA Indians were another people than the Aztecs or Mayans, but it all goes back to "the land". So, in that...
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Rights of Passage: a conversation with Mark... →
Mark Godfrey introduces this conversation published in Tate, Etc.: “Several recent artworks have explored the subject of migration and border zones, especially in the region of North Africa and Europe. These pieces raise a number of questions relating to the ways artists tackle the visibility or invisibility of migrants, and to the relationships between documentary and fiction.” The...
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