Beautiful Eccentrics
Letters, observations and marginalia on contemporary art
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 364 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Inhabitation and Inversion: The Format as Medium
Bringing a donkey into the Carrilo Gil Museum, Mexico City, July 2008
I am often asked about why I reach out to nostalgic, or defunct practices or forgotten disciplines to make my work (singing telegrams, used bookstores, phonographic reco...
The Ozymandias Complex
Francis Frith, The Fallen Colossus, Thebes, 1856–57. Albumen print. Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Princeton University Art Museum.
Sometime in 2017, at the beginning of the first Trump presidency, a MoMA curator showed up to a meeting at our E...
Artspeak Exercises (Introducing the Sunday Section)
[For paid subscribers]
I am delighted to introduce the Sunday Section for paid subscribers. Appearing every other Sunday—and occasionally more often—this informal feature is inspired by the Sunday funnies of old-fashioned newspapers, often...
From the Archives: Unwelcome Memories (2023)
On the 25th anniversary of September 11, I am resharing an essay I first published three years ago. It reflects on my experience visiting the 9/11 Museum in Lower Manhattan and on the striking reluctance of many New Yorkers—particularly tho...
Latin America is a Remake
Pablo Helguera, Instituto de la telenovela: Entre la gloria y el olvido (Institute of the telenovela: Between glory and oblivion), 2026. Commissioned by Americas Society.
This is the third and final essay in The Emotional Life of Nations,...
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Beautiful Eccentrics is a weekly dispatch of letters, notes and marginalia on contemporary art. I am a Mexican visual artist living in New York. My work involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater and literary strategies.
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