Carolina A. Miranda

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The End of Sábado Gigante

Friday, September 04, 2015

After 53 years, Univision's Sábado Gigante is going off the air. We look at the iconic variety show's history and what it says about Latino demographics in the US. 

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The Ballad of a Failed State

Friday, November 21, 2014

For decades, Mexican culture has celebrated the exploits of drug traffickers in songs known as narcocorridos. With the drug war become ever more violent, the songs have followed suit.

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The New Stars of Performance Art

Friday, July 11, 2014

Performance art is notoriously difficult to define — maybe that’s why celebrities find it so appealing when they’re trying to improve their artistic cred. Big names like James Franco,...

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

WNYC
Post-war abstraction gets international at the Guggenheim, Ellsworth Kelly's tender plant drawings hit the Met, Sikkema Jenkins organizes a group show that is all about small and th...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

WNYC
Art about sex, art about sci-fi landscapes, art about dilapidated industry and art in which the everyday is turned into abstraction. There is lots of trippy-weird stuff going on in ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

WNYC
Exhibits that are all about the artistic contributions of women, a 150th birthday party (with gilded cake) for Gustav Klimt, web-like installations by an Osaka-born artist and an ex...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

It seems like space is in the air this week: there is a Cloud City at the Met and a mission to Mars at the Armory. Not that there aren't other things to do. The International Center ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

WNYC
Two Italian designers face off at the Met, a group of artists take on the art market and a moody photographer shows his latest in Chelsea. Plus, in Ridgewood, the Queens Museum is...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus:...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The U.S. as seen by Chinese and Chinese-American photographers, the late work of pop forebear Larry Rivers, an East Village gallery space from the '80s gets its own show at Winklema...
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The California Taco Trail: 'How Mexican Food Conquered America'

Monday, April 23, 2012

Once upon a time, tacos were a Mexican snack. Now they're an all-American institution. Gustavo Arellano leads us across Southern California in search of the roots of the American taco.

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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

WNYC
A figure whose photography and performances chronicle a life of survival and loss in Chelsea, a super giant salad on the High Line, the act of grooming gets thoroughly picked apart ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The earliest Egyptian art at the Met, a house grows in the Brooklyn Museum, an igloo made of coal on the Lower East Side and a Brazilian artist's climb-able piece in Chelsea. Plus: ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

A Bronx building is reborn as an art gallery, the fine drawings of Dürer and his Northern Renaissance contemporaries goes on view at the Met and a Brooklyn gallery creates a free coll...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

WNYC
The art of the nude at the Met, early digital works at the Museum of the Moving Image, paintings from a secret chapel go on view at St. Peter's in Manhattan, and painters and perfor...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

WNYC
Crazy paintings of cats, a photographer channels the '70s, the art of the Vegas casino, turning political dialogue into romantic drama and three decades of an important New York art...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Early works by a pop-graffitist in Brooklyn, paintings of devils in Chelsea, art from the Byzantine era at the Met, the stark look of Deco in Japan and a very special drawing class ...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

WNYC
The rarely-seen junk sculptures of a New York performance artist and MC, an installation that explores our city from the water, important post-war artists from Italy and a pop-up sh...
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

WNYC
Art about animals, the collection of important Parisian patrons, the architectonic works of a Cuban artist, art about performance art and early '80s photographs from Northern Africa...
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