In 1985, A. R. Penck told curator Klaus Ottmann that he didn't miss East Germany, where he had been born in 1939 and from which he was exiled in 1961. East Germany, Penck said, "disappeared in a…
German artist A.R. Penck’s paintings from the late 1960s and ’70s, which display stick figures and rudimentary markings, are today widely regarded as emblems of postwar existential angst and Cold War…
Appointed to her post at El Museo in December, Martínez had just spent three years as part of the Documenta 13 curatorial team, while also serving as chief curator at MACBA, Barcelona. When you…