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...Félix Bolaños, a Socialist minister who worked on the draft law, will travel to Brussels to brief EU commissioners....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Félix González-Torres, the Cuban-born American conceptual artist....
...González-Torres’s memento mori of a slipping pile of Bazooka bubblegum packets, “Untitled (Welcome Back Heroes)”, created during the Gulf war in 1991....
...González-Torres, Mark Bradford, Peter Doig and many others....
...This decorative dismemberment seems like a frank sequel to Félix González-Torres’s piles of candy....
...One of the first participatory artworks that left an impression on me was a candy sculpture by Cuban-American artist Félix González-Torres in the late 1990s....
...Among those he highlights this year is a Felix Gonzalez-Torres group of 55 photographic puzzles, made between 1987 and 1992, and shown together for the first time at this year’s fair (through David Zwirner...
...An object I would never part with is a light-string installation called Last Light by the artist Félix González Torres....
...On the back it had the text “Nobody Owns Me” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Felix was a close friend of mine and the T-shirt designer Agnès B is also a friend....
...American icons of greed and loss, hardship and excess visiting France for the first time in 2017 range from Andy Warhol’s hand-painted, not-quite-identikit, 32-canvas “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962) to Félix...
...Frogier was speaking at the opening of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a show (to December 25) of the American artist whose candy spills, glittering curtains and strings of lightbulbs are displayed across the six...
...“When we installed a very large Wade Guyton piece, for example, Wade asked that we bring down Félix’s [González-Torres] light piece and put it in front of his work....
...Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film-set apartment in Cologne as evoked by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in 1993, the bread crates, empty stalls and AstroTurf of Michael Landy’s “Market” (1990), Félix González-Torres...
...Meanwhile, the estate of Cuban-born conceptual artist Félix González-Torres will now be represented by David Zwirner gallery as well as by New York dealer Andrea Rosen, an executor of the estate....
...Félix González-Torres, who died of an Aids-related illness in 1996, is a flag-bearer for polemical, political art....
...Roni Horn and Julie Ault recently curated a sensitive appreciation of the late US-Cuban artist Felix González-Torres at Hauser & Wirth in Mayfair....
...It’s a strong piece, reminiscent yet not derivative of the Aids-related light works of Cuban-American artist Félix González-Torres....
...Artists include Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Félix González-Torres, Kara Walker, Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, Cady Noland, the Black Panther Party. After Nottingham, the show travels to Tate Liverpool....
...‘America Is Hard to See’, to September 27, whitney.org Photograph: Ronald Amstutz/Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation/Andrea Rosen Gallery Slideshow photographs: Nic Lehoux; Spencer Platt/Getty Images; Brendan...
...“I was already very interested in artists of the West Coast, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and also from New York — Félix González-Torres, Cady Noland, the new sensitivity....
...González-Torres, whose world was devastated by Aids....
...A later collaboration with Félix González-Torres saw Wool’s celebrated text painting reproduced as a poster in infinite numbers, to be given away – as González-Torres famously did with piles of sweets –...
...But it turns out the man was Félix Beltrán León, a second-hand car salesman....
...The finest moment of quiet poetry is a high-ceilinged gallery papered with two billboard-sized photographs by the young Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died of Aids just three years after making them....
...Bush’s attorney-general, Alberto Gonzalez: “How to Talk to Your Children So They Will Goddamn Answer for the Greater Good”....
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