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A Renaissance of Mexican Cumbia, Through the Eyes of a Fan

Toño Estrada’s personal archives paint a rare portrait of a brief and beautiful period of Mexican cultural creation. | Isabella Parlamis

Estrada is a documentary filmmaker, archivist, and aficionado of the cumbia scene in northeastern Mexico. Pioneros Vallenatos y Tropicales; The Story of Toño Estrada presents ephemera from a pivotal moment when Colombian cumbia music hit Monterrey, Mexico in the 1980s and ’90s...

Estrada’s archives trace this overlooked period of musical transmission through the rise of the famous Colombian vallenato group Binomio de Oro.

Fulcrum Arts presents Souvenir by Ohan Breiding & Shoghig Halajian

Breiding and Halajian’s autotheory publication scrutinizing scientific nomenclature and narrative-making launched April 7 on Fulcrum Arts’ transmedia online platform Sequencing. "At its heart,” write the artists, “Souvenir is a meditation on the intimacies and affective residues of environmental disaster.”
View the work at www.fulcrumarts.org/sequencing/souvenir

Getty Acquires LA Bookseller’s Vast Black Art Archive

Whitney and Lee Kaplan’s collection includes some 3,500 artist’s books, catalogs, magazines, zines, and rare ephemera. | Jasmine Liu

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Lynn Hershman Leeson Thinks It’s Time That Her Work Is Recognized

“For years, I couldn’t show my work, I couldn’t get a gallery, and people in New York wouldn’t pay attention to me,” she says. “So I think I deserve it — just for not giving up if nothing else.” | Emily Wilson

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