Monthly Archives: February 2022

Art, Arts & Literature, Events, Tours, Videos, Views

Art Fair Tours: Zonamaco 2022 In Mexico City, Mexico

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Mexico City Art Fair: Zonamaco 2022

ZⓈONAMACO is the largest art fair platform in Latin America. It was founded in 2002 by Zélika García, with four events that take place annually at Centro Citibanamex, in Mexico City.

ARTISTS & GALLERIES MENTIONED: About the Fair (0:00) Gabriel Rico, Eduardo Sarabia: Gallery OMR (0:49) Carlos Aires, Omar Barquet: Zilberman (2:13) Darío Escobar: Galería RGR (3:12) Jeppe Hein, König Gallery (3:47) Zhivago Duncan, Colector (4:05) The Hole (4:53) Yoshua Okón: Proyectos Monclova (5:45) Richard Prince: Gagosian (6:39) Olivia Steele: Maia Contemporary (7:07) Frida Orupado: Gallery Nordenhake (7:48) Juan Uribe, Héctor Madera: SGR Galeria (8:09) Furiosa (8:40) Jon Young, Carl Kostál (9:00) Los Bravú, Lyle O. Reitzel (9:47) Dr. Lakra, Kurimanzutto (10:41) Alex Hubbard, Larry Johnson: House of Gaga (11:59) Guadalupe Maravilla, Carlos Alejandro Motta: P.P.O.W (12:36) Miguel Angel Madrigal, Jeffly Gabriela Molina: Galeria Enrique Guerrero (13:10) Dan Lam, Hashimoto Contemporary (13:44) Gabriela Kraviez, CarrerasMugica (14:16) Boris Viskin, Galería Ethra (14:53) Josh Reames, Grip Face: Cerquone Gallery (15:30) Caleb Hahne, Yves Scherer, 1969 Gallery & Cassina Projects (16:19) Le Laboratoire (16:49) Anna Segovia, Lucía Vidales: Galeria Karen Huber (17:49) Donna Huanca, Charlie Billingham, Ana Prata: Travesía Cuatro (18:38) Erick Medel, Seasons LA (19:54) Piers Alsop, Neon Gallery (20:32)

Culture, Profiles, Stories, Travel, Videos, Views

Views: Barbados – World’s Youngest Republic (Video)

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On November 30, 2021, #Barbados became the world’s youngest #republic, cutting historic ties with the British monarchy. In the 17th century, the #Caribbean island state became a British colony dedicated to sugar production. Some 90 percent of its population are descended from slaves. Since independence in 1966, Barbados had long been ambivalent about its colonial heritage. But today, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is taking the country into a new era. Our team reports.

Analysis, Homes, Housing, Technology, Videos

Affordable Housing: Is Modular The Answer?

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Cities around the world are facing an affordable housing shortage – and the Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened the crisis. A 2021 report revealed 88 out of 92 major cities are considered unaffordable. The least affordable of them is Hong Kong, where the median house price is more than 20 times the annual median household income.  

But there is a potential solution that is garnering attention: factory-built homes. These houses – also known as modular homes – are constructed in controlled conditions and can take just a week or two to build.   

“We can build 27 Top Hat homes for every one brick and mortar traditionally built house,’ said Jordan Rosenhaus, who is the CEO of modular housing factory, TopHat.  “So, over the next week, we’ll finish approximately 10 houses, that’s just our production program for now. That can ramp up”.

So can this innovation solve the housing crisis? Watch the video above to learn more.  

Adventure, Documentaries, Reviews, Videos, Views

Views: ’14 Peaks’ – Dangers Of Mountaineering (ABC)

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ABC News spoke with acclaimed mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja about his recent documentary, “14 Peaks,” and the dangers of high-altitude mountaineering.

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible is a 2021 documentary film directed by Torquil Jones, and produced by Noah Media Group, Little Monster Films and Torquil Jones with Nirmal Purja, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Vasarhelyi as executive producers. The film follows Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his team as they attempt to climb all 14 eight thousander peaks within a record time of under 7 months. 

News, Podcasts, Politics

Morning News: Ukraine-Russia Diplomacy, Turkey Limits Media, Olympics

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As diplomatic efforts to avert conflict in Ukraine continue, we discuss new US intelligence suggesting that Russia is planning an attack. Plus: Turkey’s clampdown on foreign media and a Winter Olympics round-up.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NZjbqQV9pKm9CQz1IQqKE
Birds, Nature, Travel, Videos, Views, Wildlife

Views: Gannets In Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand

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We leave you this Sunday morning at Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand, with gannets, who mate for life. Videographer: Jaime McDonald.

Australasian gannets nest in dense breeding colonies on the New Zealand mainland and coastal rocks and islands, as well as off south-east Australia and Tasmania. Although gannets can be seen occasionally from most places along the coasts of the New Zealand main islands, most gannetries are situated off the North Island. The largest mainland gannetry is at Cape Kidnappers, with around 5,000 breeding pairs. Other mainland breeding sites include Muriwai and Farewell Spit.

Australasian gannets mostly feed on waters over the continental shelf. They prefer flat ground for nesting, rather than cliff ledges. Breeding colonies are mostly situated at sites that are completely or largely surrounded by the sea, i.e. on islands or headlands.

Cape Kidnappers, also known as Te Kauwae-a-Māui and officially known as Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui, is a headland at the southeastern extremity of Hawke’s Bay on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island and sits at the end of an 8 kilometres peninsula which protrudes into the Pacific Ocean.

Art, Arts & Literature, Profiles, Reviews

20th Century: Was Francis Bacon The Best Painter?

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Is Francis Bacon really the greatest painter of the 20th century?

Triptych 1986-7 (detail)

It was not an enormous surprise that an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy that is supported by Christie’s should swiftly be followed by an announcement of the auction house offering a large work for sale. Triptych 1986-7, whose central panel depicts the artist’s partner John Edwards, with Woodrow Wilson on one side and the assassinated Trotsky’s study on the other, is being offered in the sale that takes place on 1 March with an estimate of £35m–£55m. Nor is it a surprise that an auction house should drum up interest in one of their lots using superlatives. But Rakewell was a little taken aback by the claim on Instagram from a Christie’s specialist that ‘Francis Bacon is unmistakably on of the greatest painters of the 20th century.’

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Books, Reviews, Society, Stories

Book Review: ‘The Nineties’ By Chuck Klosterman

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