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Issue 103 Spring 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
A Russian doll of spheres, socks stuffed with papier mâché, oranges in teacups, and a suspended whale skeleton—remnants of the natural world and the everyday, utterly re-imagined.
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Saturn devoured his children to leave myths like those in The People of Paper, unfolded here in the form of an origami temptress and a cholo gang leader.
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The Family Tree (The Genealogies), the legendary Mexican writer and thinker’s shimmering Rashomon of her Jewish family’s past, is revisited on a drive to her childhood home in Mexico City.
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Los Tigres del Norte: the ultimate corrido-belting norteño band, and Grammy winners to boot.
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On the craft of directing and playwriting for a woman’s body, the body politic, and a people’s soul.
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Doña Julia Julieta, of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, on Mazatec ancestral knowledge, sacred mushrooms, and one patient’s extraordinary regression through time.
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The LACMA curator’s odyssey into the cosmology of the Maya, in Lords of Creation: The Origins of Ancient Maya Kingship, her latest blockbuster show to present the art and culture of ancient Mesoamerica.
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Urban planning and the Edenic garden, from Cicero to Borges; and universal knowledge and the public library, from Boulee to Kalach’s own soaring Vasconcelos Library.
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