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GETTING REAL WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL




Is that time of the year for some of us to smell the coffee. To get real. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013 is back in New York with 20 provocative films calling for justice and social change. 

Are traditional values and human rights on opposite sides? This year, the festival focuses in the struggle to make sense of this uneasy relationship between the individual quest for freedom and progress and the call - the pressure - to remain the same, even when doing so means the perpetuation of a system of prejudice, discrimination and inequality.  The festival also centers its attention in the power of an individual to take control and make a difference while dealing with his/her reality.

Outstanding bodies of work such as The Undocumented, a close and revealing look at the human cost of a misguided immigration policy by the US and the failure of both Mexico and the USA to provide their citizens with such basic human rights as the right to live and the right to work. 


Marco Williams puts 'el dedo en la llaga' with this honest and deeply felt documentary. Now that immigration reform is rolling in the Senate, watching The Undocumented will make sure we keep the focus on the important issue: a fellow human. Migration is about a son looking for his father; a father looking to go back to his family, an abuela with her nieto looking for a daugter and a mother, a sister and his little brother looking for their mother. Everyone looking to contribute and make it all better. Many of them never make it and died in the middle of nowhere. Hundreds of bodies are recovered: The Recovered Migrants. Many more are still waiting somewhere in the Sonora Desert as are their families on both sides of the border. We can help to stop this nonsense by demanding an honest and comprehensive Immigration Reform!. Please act now.

Outstanding Anita, that centers the discussion on what have been achieved so far and the ongoing fight against gender inequality. Anita Hill's ordeal is still changing the country for good. 


More women in congress make it possible to question that kind of behavior as witnessed recently when the senate called upon the top brass of our military to address rape and sexual violence in the military. Nevertheless, one just have to remember how, not long ago, another senate panel composed exclusively of old white men was convened to discuss women reproductive rights, to understand that the job continues.
Tall as a Baobab Tree is another remarkable doc where the power of the individual propels change and where education is at the center of the conflict: Educarme o no Educarme; Cambiar o seguir siendo el mismo; Ser o No Ser?. 


One thing is for sure, and Tall as a Baobab Tree is a beautiful remainder of it:  Education is one of the most important agents of change we have. And we must keep it a the center of it all.

My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone and Camp 14 – Total Control Zone bring us into hidden worlds. Hidden to us but a reality to many of our fellow humans: Life for ordinary people recorded by themselves in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Lives caught in between one side and the other; children, women and men trapped by the chaos and the social morons and still, keeping a gleamer of hope for a better future.
How can a regime like the one in North Korea be accepted among us? 


Why some human beings will do this to their fellow humans? Camp 14 – Total Control Zone will make you sick with disgust, for sure. Hopefully, you will redouble your commitment to stop these atrocities for happening again. Marc Wiese, its director, is the recipient of the festival’s annual Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking for his film.
Whats wrong with Humanitarian Aid and Aid Assistance around the world? It is not a secret that humanitarian aid has become the focus of attention and criticism mainly because the way is implemented and its lack of transparency. In Africa, Asia and the Americas, NGO, governments and the global capital seem to be pursuing their own agendas which do not relate to the needs of the people they are suppose to be aiding. 


Fatal Assistance will drive the point home. The Reconstruction of Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake has become a sad example of improvisation and a showcase for all that is wrong with the way we use Humanitarian Aid. Hasta cuando?.

And these are only the films I already watched!. There is more, of course. Look for the doc about the 99% and OWS, and Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer, Salma, Born This Way, The New Black, The Parade, deepsouth, to mention a few others.

These are the four themes for this year’s festival: Traditional values and human rights— incorporating women’s rights, disability rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights; Crises and Migration; Focus on Asia; and Human Rights in the United States

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival runs June 13-23 at Lincoln Center and at IFC Center. For more information, visit http://ff.hrw.org/

Here is a rundown of the main films:

The festival will launch on June 13 with a fundraising Benefit Night for Human Rights Watch featuring the HBO documentary Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington. The film is Sebastian Junger’s moving tribute to his lost friend and Restrepo co-director, the photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed while covering the Libyan civil war in 2011.

The main program starts on June 14 with the Opening Night presentation of Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Mock’s ANITA, in which Anita Hill looks back at the powerful testimony she gave against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and its impact on the broader discussion of gender inequality in America. The Closing Night screening on June 23 will be Jeremy Teicher’s award-winning drama Tall As the Baobab Tree, the touching story of a teenage girl who tries to rescue her younger sister from an arranged marriage in rural Senegal.

* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Women’s Rights

Traditional values are often cited as an excuse to undermine human rights. In addition to Tall As the Baobab Tree, five documentaries in this year’s festival consider the impact on women. Veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s Salma is the remarkable story of a South Indian Muslim woman who endured a 25-year confinement and forced marriage by her own family before achieving national renown as the most famous female poet in the Tamil language. Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief’s Rafea: Solar Mama profiles an illiterate Bedouin woman from Jordan who gets the chance to be educated in solar engineering but has to overcome her husband's resistance. In Karima Zoubir’s intimately observed Camera/Woman, a Moroccan divorcée supports her family by documenting wedding parties while navigating her own series of heartaches. It will be shown with Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s Going Up the Stairs, a charming portrait of a traditional Iranian grandmother who discovers her love of painting late in life and is invited to exhibit her work in Paris. Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s candid HBO documentary Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer centers on the women of the radical-feminist punk group, two of whom are currently serving time in a Russian prison for their acts of defiance against the government.

* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights

Three films in the program remind viewers that, despite recent strides toward equality, LGBT communities around the world still struggle for acceptance. Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann’s Born This Way is an intimate look at the lives of four young gay men and lesbians in Cameroon, where there are more arrests for homosexuality than in any other country in the world. Yoruba Richen’s The New Black uncovers the complicated and often combative intersection of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements, with a particular focus on homophobia in the black church. In Srdjan Dragojevic’s drama The Parade, a fight by activists to stage a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade leads to an unlikely alliance in a black-humored look at contemporary Serbia.

* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Disability Rights

Harry Freeland’s In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable study in courage, telling the story of two albino men who attempt to follow their dreams in the face of prejudice and fear in Tanzania.

* Crises and Migration


Three documentaries highlight the issues of humanitarian aid, conflict and migration. In the Festival Centerpiece, Fatal Assistance, the acclaimed director Raoul Peck, Haiti's former culture minister, takes us on a two-year journey following the 2010 earthquake and looks at the damage done by international aid agencies whose well-meaning but ignorant assumptions turned a nightmare into an unsolvable tragedy. Danish journalist Nagieb Khaja’s My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone shows ordinary Afghans in war-torn Helmand who were provided with hi-res camera phones to record their daily lives, giving a voice to those frequently ignored by the Western media. Marco Williams’ The Undocumented is an unvarnished account of the thousands of Mexican migrants who have died in recent years while trying to cross Arizona’s unforgiving Sonora Desert in search of a better life in the United States.

* Focus on Asia

The festival will screen two important documentaries from Asia. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling and inventive The Act of Killing, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to reenact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love. Marc Wiese’s Camp 14 – Total Control Zone tells the powerful story of Shin Dong-Huyk, who spent the first two decades of his life behind the barbed wire of a North Korean labor camp before his dramatic escape led him into an outside world he had never known. Wiese is the recipient of the festival’s annual Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking for his film.

* Human Rights in the United States

Four American documentaries — including festival opener ANITA — highlight human rights issues in our own back yard. 99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the 2011 movement, digging into big-picture issues as organizers, participants and critics reveal what happened and why. Al Reinert’s An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story tells the story of a Texas man who was wrongfully convicted of his wife’s murder and was exonerated by new DNA evidence after nearly 25 years behind bars. Lisa Biagiotti’s deepsouth is an evocative exploration of the rise in HIV in the rural American south, a region where poverty, a broken health system and a culture of denial force those affected to create their own solutions to survive.

In conjunction with this year’s film program, the festival will present the photo exhibit Dowry: Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan. The exhibit is Getty photographer Brent Stirton’s visual investigation into the devastating impact the tradition of child marriage has on girls in this East African nation. It will be featured in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater for the duration of the festival.
Most of the screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with filmmakers, and some by panel discussions with experts and film subjects.

For more information: http://ff.hrw.org/
Photos courtesy of the HRW Film Festival.

BROOKLYN MEETS SPAIN en el BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL






El cine de animación es una de las industrias más dinámicas de la península ibérica con ingresos superiores a los 350 millones de euros y con presencia en más de 150 países. Uno de los pioneros es eFestival Internacional de Cortometrajes y Animación de Barcelona (MECAL) que este año celebra su decimoquinta edición y que, gracias al Consulado de España en Nueva York, se hará presente en el Festival de Cine de Brooklyn (BFF) el sábado 8 de Junio, con una sección especial de animación titulada Brooklyn Meets Spain.


Brooklyn Meets Spain presentará una mirada al buen momento que vive la industria de animación española a través de dos programas: el largometraje documental 30 años de oscuridad dirigida por Manuel H. Martín, y una colección de cortos animados. 

Desde aquí les extendemos una invitación para que se hagan presentes y disfruten lo nuevo en animación española. A continuación tienen el programa del día 8 de Junio:


Sesión de Cortometrajes:

5 PM en Windmill Studios. Williamsburg (287 Kent Avenue). Precio de la entrada $12.

* Birdboy- Dir. Pedro Rivero & Alberto Vázquez, 12 min, Ver Trailer.
La pequeña Dinki comienza un nuevo día camino a la escuela junto a su muy querido padre. Pero un terrible accidente industrial va a cambiar para siempre la vida en la isla en la que habitan.

* Grand Prix- Dir. Marc Riba & Anna Solanas, 8 min, Spain Ver Trailer .
Cielo despejado. Vehículos en la parrilla. Blas, Ivan y Héctor ocupan sus lugares. Esto está a punto de empezar! Preparados, listos ...

* Mi vida en tus manos- Dir. Nuno Beato, 7 min, Spain Ver Trailer 

Llega a España un conocido torero portugués, El Matador. Con él viaja su hijo Pedrito, que sueña ser un día como su padre. Pero jugando por la plaza antes de la corrida, Pedrito establece contacto con el toro que será lidiado por su padre. Este momento cambia completamente el destino de los tres personajes.

* Jamón- Dir. Iria López, 8 min, Spain Ver Trailer .

José es un cerdo adolescente que vive en una ciudad española, y él es el único cerdo en su familia. Un día, un nuevo vecino se muda a la casa de al lado, y José comienza a darse cuenta de lo que realmente es.

* Hezurbeltzak, una fosa común- Dir. Izibene Oñederra, 5 min, Spain Ver Trailer.

Hezurbeltzak es una palabra en euskera que no aparece en ningún diccionario. Palabra inexistente pero muy utilizada para nombrar de forma despectiva a grupos de gente socialmente invisible. Traducción literal: de huesos negros.

* Amar - Dir. Isabel Herguera, 8 min, Spain Ver Trailer .

Inés viaja a la India para visitar a su amigo Amar, quien ha estado viviendo en una institución mental durante años. Inés recuerda los últimos días que pasaron juntos y su promesa de volver.

* La dama y la muerte - Dir. Javier Recio Garcia, 8 min, Spain Ver Trailer .

La Dama y la Muerte trata del derecho a la muerte digna. Una anciana, que vive sola en una zona rural y cuyo marido ha fallecido, está esperando que llegue la muerte para reunirse nuevamente con él. Cuando llega, por fin, y está a punto de entrar en el más allá para reencontrarse con su amado, se ve arrancada de las manos de la muerte por un médico petulante. Se establece una feroz lucha entre médico y Muerte, a la que la anciana asiste atónita, que se salda con la victoria de la medicina. La muerte se retira, pero la anciana no está dispuesta a postergar más la reunión con su marido.

* Alineación- Dir. Silvia Carpizo, 4 min, Spain Ver Trailer .

Una historia animada en las calles de la ciudad de valencia como escenario, una conexión que se entremezcla con los muros de uno de los mejores artistas callejeros de la ciudad, Escif, la integración del sin sentido del día a día de unos personajes encerrados en un mundo paralelo al nuestro.

* La cosa es la esquina- Dir. Zoe Berriatúa, 10 min, Spain Ver Trailer.

Oh, Dios mío! Hay una cosa terrible, negra, desagradable en la esquina, pero ... Realmente, ¿no lo ves?

* Bendito Machine IV- Dir. Jossie Malis, 10 min, Spain Ver Trailer 

Un improbable héroe se embarca en un crudo viaje por tierra, mar y aire a través de todas las atracciones de un planeta se ha convertido en un enorme parque petroquímico ... y más allá.


_ 5:30 PM en IndieScreen- Williamsburg (289 Kent Avenue).
30 años de oscuridad - Dir. Manuel H. Martín, 85 min, Ver Trailer- Entrada gratuita.
Este documental retrata la increíble historia de Manuel Cortés, el «Topo de Mijas», el último alcalde republicano de un pueblo en Málaga, quien pasó treinta años escondido en su propia casa después de la Guerra Civil española, dentro de un hoyo que hizo junto a su esposa en la pared, hasta que el régimen de la dictadura concedió una amnistía.
Posteriormente se celebrará una sesión de preguntas y respuestas con Jorge Laplace, guionista de la película.

7:30 PM: Cóctel en indieScreen.

12 AM - Medianoche: Fiesta de clausura con DJ Turmix de Barcelona.

_ Para más información de  Brooklyn Meets Spain, vayan > https://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/events/mecal/
_ Para más información sobre el Festival d Cine de Brooklyn, vayan a > http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/

VENEZOLANOS EN NUEVA YORK PROTESTAN EL FRAUDE ELECTORAL ANTE LA ONU





( UPDATED ) Este pasado 2 de Junio miles de Venezolan@s, tanto los residentes en más de 60 países como los que viven en Venezuela, se reunieron para seguir denunciando el fraude electoral cometido el pasado 14 de Abril contra Henrique Capriles e imponer al ahora ilegítimo presidente, Nicolás Maduro. 



Henrique Capriles saludó y agradeció, a través de su cuenta tuiter, el apoyo y el compromiso de los venezolanos del mundo reunidos en este evento masivo en su nombre y en el de Venezuela. El presidente electo expresó: 'En muchas ciudades del mundo hoy nuestros hermanos venezolanos hicieron sentir la lucha por la verdad, vaya un abrazo a todos!'.

La protesta en NYC contó con la asistencia
de un pequeño pero comprometido grupo de compatriotas que pudieron hacerse presentes y, además, del hermano del tachirense Jacobo Supelano, uno de los tantos presos políticos del régimen - de quienes seguimos demandando liberación inmediata.


Estas son algunas de las imágenes que capté de la protesta frente a las Naciones Unidas de Nueva York, organizada por el Centro Cívico Venezolano, con el apoyo promocional de Save Venezuela y el ComandoSBNY, entre otros grupos e individuos.
A consecuencia de la Dictadura en Venezuela se calcula que son un millón los venezolan@s que viven en el exterior. Con una población total de 30 millones, la comunidad venezolana global representa un bloque de un millón muy importante para la proyección internacional del país, una rica fuente de apoyo financiero y una comunidad comprometida con su voto con la Alternativa Democrática. Esta realidad cobrará más relevancia en el contexto nacional en los próximos años, más aún cuando el número de votantes en el exterior no superó los cien mil en las fraudulentas elecciones del pasado 14 de Abril. Según el régimen, por supuesto.
Indiscutiblemente, el voto en el exterior apoya a la Alternativa Democrática con un apabullante 85% o más a nivel mundial. Los elementos para construir una verdadera y más auténtica democracia los tenemos entre nosotros: una sociedad civil cada día más organizada, la red de las ong, los partidos políticos viables, instituciones sólidas y ciudadanía activa. 
El reto, para las ONG, la Sociedad Civil, los Partidos Políticos y los Factores Económicos y Sociales Venezolanos es construir un marco de acción y de proyección en donde todos y cada uno de ellos ocupe el lugar que les corresponde y que nos asegure la sociedad que nos merecemos. Esta dináminca está en pleno desarrollo no solo en Venezuela sino, en mayor medida, en el Exterior. Es una experiencia inédita para la sociedad venezolana que esperamos sortear con éxito.
Desde esta tribuna pretendo ser un elemento aglutinador que trabaje para poder cambiar las cosas en positivo. Solo tenemos que imaginar cuando nuestra comunidad, robusta, diversa, poderosa, unida y con más de 600,000 votos en la contienda, sea la clave para asegurarnos un mejor futuro progresista para Venezuela.
Veo a futuro una gran convergencia de venezolanos a nivel global. Grupos de Venezolanos de larga trayectoria en la labor social, en la labor de comunidad y de apoyo a los inmigrantes venezolanos tales como el Centro Cívico Venezolano, Save Venezuela, entre otros, siguen su labor hoy en día. Muchos grupos de compatriotas han hecho su contribución desde hace un tiempo. Ahora cuentan con el apoyo de nuevas generaciones, nuevos activistas, nuevos amantes de la libertad, nuevos inmigrantes con nuevas ideas. Venezolan@s tod@s luchando por un nuevo referente para Venezuela y para América Latina. 
La fuerza popular del movimiento encabezado por la MUD y por Henrique Capriles ha cautivado el discurso sobre el futuro de Venezuela y se ha transformado en la que llamamos El Comando Simón Bolivar, movimiento popular que se ha propagado por el país y por el mundo con la energía de los que creemos que el cambio es no solo posible sino imparable. Al ComandoSB se unen nuevos grupos como Embajadores del Voto y Venezolanos en el Exterior entre muchos, todos buscando el progreso de Venezuela. 
Es un momento crucial para el país y para el continente todo. Los venezolan@s en el exterior seguiremos buscando una mejor Venezuela, una América más libre y más próspera. Ahora más que nunca el llamado es a unir Fuerzas, Talentos y Voluntades, todos los grupos - la sociedad civil, las ong, los partidos políticos, todos los venezolan@s. Y cada cual desde su campo de acción y su fortaleza. El país tiene los recursos y el potencial humano para alcanzar lo que se proponga y los Venezolanos en el Exterior estamos llamados a jugar un rol esencial en este proceso si nos unimos y trabajamos juntos. Que así sea con la ayuda de todos.

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Abajo pueden ver un video corto de la protesta. También pueden seguir el enlace a > TespisTV.


EN FOTOS: EVENTOS DE VERANO EN NYC






Navegando la ciudad te encuentras con innumerable cantidad de eventos culturales y de esparcimiento que son promocionados tanto en postales como en anuncios de diverso tamaño y siempre les tomo una foto. 










Hoy comenzamos a presentarles esas fotos - esos eventos - con más regularidad y así darles acceso inmediato a la información precisa. Para mi es un rito Kayaking en el Hudson y los festivales al aire libre, por ejemplo. Todos tenemos nuestros eventos favoritos. Y ahora con el sistema CitiBike nuestra ciudad se pondrá mucho más fascinante. Aquí tendrán montón de ideas para explorarla!. 
Vean el slideshow debajo o sigan el enlace para la galeria picasa > NYC EVENTS.




WANTED DESIGN NYC 2013 IS ON!

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La tercera edición de WantedDesign 2013 se lleva a cabo hasta este 20 de Mayo en NYC con una gran presencia de artistas y diseñadores internacionales, muchos de ellos Latin@s. Desde talleres hasta conversaciones con los diseñadores presentes y una gran muestra que toma las instalaciones del Terminal Stores de la Avenida 11 en Chelsea, WantedDesign comienza hoy, Mayo 17.


WantedDesign is a creative destination for the design community with innovative installations, student workshops, engaging discourse and more. The third edition will feature a strongly curated exhibition of international designers (many latinos among them) along with a rich conversation series, design workshops, a pop-up store, convivial lounges and more.
WantedDesign offers participants and visitors alike with a unique and dynamic international design experience. WantedDesign is the meeting point for designers, manufacturers, industrials, craftsmen, students, design institutions, the press and all design lovers. WantedDesign is also playing a strong role, with our partners, to make NYCxDESIGN more dynamic and transform New York into a real design destination.
The event is taking place at the landmark Terminal Stores building on 11th Avenue between 27th and 28th streets.

For more info please visit / Para más información > WantedDesign.

Photo: GOMA. Stool /Lamp by Renata Moura Studio, Brazil. Design by Flip (Felipe Yung). 

BARACK OBAMA: COMO MEJORAR NUESTRA ALIANZA CON AMERICA LATINA




El Presidente Barack Obama acaba de terminar un corto pero significativo  viaje a México y Costa Rica. Además de las reuniones bilaterales sostenidas con los presidentes Chinchilla y Peña Nieto, el presidente Obama se reunió con los presidentes de los paises centroamericanos miembros de SICA, el órgano regional de integración.


Visita significativa porque se lanza a comienzos de su segunda presidencia y porque comienza a articularse una relación más estrecha a todo nivel en el continente, sobre todo a nivel económico y educativo y no solo a nivel del tema narcotráfico, tan dominante en las relaciones bilaterales hasta el momento. 
Su visita fue un llamado a los jóvenes: 'Tu eres el sueño' les dijo en Ciudad de México. También fue un llamado a romper los estereotipos y a trabajar juntos: 'Hagamos más cosas juntos'.
 
El comienzo de una verdadera visión de integración continental? Sería bueno y necesario.

Después de su viaje, el presidente ha publicado una pieza editorial en El Nuevo Herald que nos dá una relación concisa de su viaje y sus aspiraciones. A continuación se encuentra el texto completo de la columna
 
Cómo mejorar nuestra alianza con América Latina
Por Barack Obama


La semana pasada, tuve el gusto de visitar México por cuarta vez desde que soy Presidente y de reunirme con los líderes centroamericanos en Costa Rica. Tuve la oportunidad de reafirmar nuestra amistad con una región en la que decenas de millones de inmigrantes y de estadounidenses tienen sus raíces.

También fue una oportunidad para destacar el progreso impresionante que se está logrando en América Latina, que es una de las regiones más dinámicas del mundo, y de forjar nuevas alianzas que contribuirán a mejorar las vidas de todos nuestros habitantes.

Fui allí porque este es un momento de gran promesa para nuestro hemisferio. Actualmente, casi todos los pueblos de las Américas viven en democracias. América Latina tiene algunas de las economías de más rápido crecimiento en el mundo. Y, a través de toda la región, decenas de millones de gente han dejado atrás la pobreza y han llegado a la clase media.

Esto representa una oportunidad increíble para todos nuestros países, especialmente en cuanto a mi prioridad principal, que es crear buenos empleos de clase media aquí en los Estados Unidos. Esto se debe a que, tal como lo presencié en mi visita al puerto de Miami en marzo, una de las mejores maneras de hacerlo es expandiendo el comercio que nos permita vender más productos alrededor del mundo.

Ahora mismo, más del 40 por ciento de nuestras exportaciones van hacia México, América Central y del Sur, y dichas exportaciones están aumentando más rápido que nuestro comercio con el resto del mundo. Eso está creando más empleos aquí en los Estados Unidos, pero también está beneficiando a la gente de todo el hemisferio. Los Estados Unidos son la fuente mayor de inversión extranjera en las Américas. Y los tratados comerciales que he firmado con Colombia y con Panamá están creando nuevos mercados para las empresas en nuestros países.

Una de las relaciones más significativas y más dinámicas es con México. Los Estados Unidos son el mayor cliente de México, ya que compramos la mayor parte de las exportaciones de México, y México es el segundo mercado mayor para las exportaciones de los EE.UU., pues compra más de $200 mil millones en productos Hechos en EE.UU. cada año. Nuestras compañías y trabajadores ensamblan productos juntos. Todo esto apoya millones más de empleos en ambos países.

Yo creo que hay aun más que la gente de los Estados Unidos y de México pueden construir conjuntamente. Por eso es que el Presidente Peña Nieto y yo nos comprometimos a expandir el comercio y las inversiones y a crear aun más empleos para nuestra gente.

Yo les expresé un mensaje similar a la Presidente Chinchilla de Costa Rica y a otros líderes centroamericanos. Durante los últimos seis años, las exportaciones de EE.UU. a las naciones centroamericanas han aumentado en más del 94 por ciento, y las importaciones de esos países han aumentado en cerca del 87 por ciento. El crecimiento económico en general está reforzando los logros políticos y sociales que tanto costaron conseguir en las últimas dos décadas. Y por eso es que yo reafirmé el apoyo y el compromiso sólidos de los Estados Unidos a crear una América Central más próspera.

Eso es importante, porque el crecimiento económico en términos generales no solo crea más empleos y oportunidad en esos países, sino que también reduce la inmigración ilegal a los Estados Unidos. La reforma migratoria de sentido común es una de mis principales prioridades. El proyecto de ley que se presentó en el Senado no incluye todo lo que yo deseo, pero es mayormente consistente con los principios que yo he planteado, que son mejor seguridad en la frontera, un camino a la ciudadanía, y un sistema de inmigración legal que una a las familias y que atraiga a trabajadores sumamente capacitados. Y tengo la esperanza de que este año podamos hacer realidad la reforma migratoria general.

Actualmente, decenas de millones de estadounidenses pueden rastrear sus orígenes a México y a América Central. Millones de trabajadores se ganan la vida en buenos empleos que han sido posibles dado el comercio entre nuestras naciones. Los Estados Unidos es un país más próspero y más diverso gracias a nuestras alianzas con nuestros vecinos hacia el sur. Y tengo la seguridad de que podemos aprovechar nuestra herencia común, nuestra relación económica y nuestros valores compartidos para enriquecer las vidas de toda nuestra gente.

Barack Obama es el Presidente de los Estados Unidos.

NY ESSENTIALS: TOP ART SPRING 2013 UPDATED!





UPDATED!
PRIMAVERA!!!!!!! y Top Art es la perfecta combinación para una temporada plena en Nueva York. Aqui les tengo las recomendaciones actualizadas para el resto de la temporada: La Biblioteca Pública de NYC presenta Back Tomorrow en honor a Federico García Lorca y su Poeta en Nueva York; Velasquez en todo su gloria se presenta en el Museo Metropolitano; La relación entre Solar y Borges se analiza en la Americas Society y Superreal continua en El Museo del Barrio.
El Museo del Bronx celebra sus 40 años de fundado con Honey, I Rearranged The Collection; American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe sigue en el Whitney y en el Frick veremos a Piero della Francesca, figura fundacional del Renacimiento. La Galería Magnan Metz presenta a Alexandre Arrechea al aire libre, en el Mall de la Park Avenue. 
También siguen: Picasso Black and White, presentando una faceta poco conocida del maestro español, se encuentra ahora en Houston y Manolo Valdés sigue en el Jardín Botánico.                                    


LO NUEVO

 
* Back Tomorrow: Federico García Lorca / Poet in New York > New York Public Library > Hasta Julio 20 > Lorca.


In June 1929, at a time when young writers and painters dreamed of living in Paris, Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spain’s greatest modern poet and playwright, broke boldly with tradition and sailed for New York. His nine months here, followed by three months in Havana, changed his vision of poetry, the theater, and the social role of the artist.
Lorca came to New York to study English but devoted himself instead to writing Poet in New York, a howl of protest against racial bigotry, mindless consumption, and the adoration of technology. “What we call civilization, he called slime and wire,” the critic V. S. Pritchett once wrote. But Lorca’s book reaches beyond New York—“this maddening, boisterous Babel”—into the depths of the psyche, in a search for wholeness and redemption.
In 1936, the poet left the manuscript of Poet in New York on the desk of his Madrid publisher with a note saying he would be “back tomorrow,” probably to discuss final details. He never returned. Weeks later, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was brutally murdered by fascist elements in Granada, his body thrown into an unmarked mass grave. The book was published posthumously in 1940, but the manuscript mysteriously disappeared, lost to scholars for decades. The Fundación Federico García Lorca in Madrid and The New York Public Library exhibit it now for the first time, together with drawings, photographs, letters, and mementos—traces of a Poet in New York . . . and of New York in a poet.
 
Foto: Federico García Lorca, Animal fabuloso dirigiéndose a una casa / Fabulous beast approaching a house, India ink and colored pencil on paper, 1929–30, Colección Gloria García Lorca, Madrid
 
 
* A Common Homeland: Delibes Illustrated > Hasta Mayo 23 > Instituto Cervantes > Delibes.

A Common Homeland: an Illustrated Delibes is a journey through the universe of Miguel Delibes, told through the gaze and voice of his child protagonists, memorable characters who offer us the purest and most intuitive vision of life. Fifteen sections in this exhibit reflect the constant themes of the author's life, a short of miniature "all men`s land" that together make up our "common homeland." The texts selected here have been taken from ten of Miguel Delibes' works written between 1947 and 1989, and they introduce us to boys and girls of every age, origin, social class and character.

ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA : NO LIMITS > Park Avenue Malls > Hasta Junio 9.

Rendering of the Seagream Building in Alexandre Arrechea's
2013 No Limits series for Park Avenue Malls.
Playing on the idea of elastic architecture as a metaphor for the challenges and opportunities of shifting conditions and new realities, No Limits will present 10 massive sculptures embodying New York's most prominent buildings. Iconic landmarks represented will include: the Chrysler Building, Citicorp Center, Empire State Building, Flatiron building, Helmsley Building, MetLife Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, Seagram Building, Sherry Netherland, and US Courthouse. The sculptures, which will appear to roll, wind, and spin their way down Park Avenue from 53rd to 67th Street, will reach towering heights of up to 20 feet.
Throughout his work, artist Alexandre Arrechea uses sculpture, watercolor and video to ponder the idea of destabilizing traditional concepts held about icons and their function in society. The art is meant to create a dialogue with the public that raises questions of control, power, surveillance and one's role within these categories. Through iconic architectural buildings and urban spaces, Arrechea plays and entices the viewer to explore this concept.

ALSO:  Sofia Maldonado : World Crisis > Magnan Metz Gallery > Abril 25 - Junio 1.


Velázquez's Portrait of Francesco I d'Este > A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena > April 16–July 14 > Met Museum > Velazquez.


Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, 1599–1660). Duke Francesco I d'Este, 1638. Oil on canvas. Galleria Estense, Modena © su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.

Among the most distinctive portraits by Diego Velázquez is one he painted of Francesco I d'Este (1610–58), the Duke of Modena, during the duke's visit to Madrid in 1638 to secure the support of Philip IV. The duke is shown in armor, wearing a red sash, his head turned toward the viewer. It is a work that conveys a quality of arrogance and sensuality, and is a high watermark in the history of baroque portraiture, while also illustrating the importance of Velázquez's portraits to Spanish diplomacy. In 1843 the painting was acquired by the Galleria Estense—one of the most prestigious of Italy's regional museums—in Modena, Italy, and it has never before been lent to an institution in the United States. This special, three-month loan coincides with the re-installation of the Metropolitan's collection of Old Master paintings. It not only makes accessible to an American public one of the least known of Velázquez's works, but also calls attention to the severe damage suffered throughout the Italian region of Emilia Romagna after a devastating earthquake in May 2012. The Galleria Estense has been temporarily closed due to the damage it sustained.

* Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship > Abril 18 - Julio 20 > Americas Society Gallery > ASG.


This will be the first solo exhibition in New York dedicated to painter, writer, and occultist Xul Solar, born Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (1887-1963). The show will offer an in-depth examination of the public and private aspects of Solar's long friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with famed writer and fellow Argentine Jorge Luis Borges. The central concept of the exhibition will explore how a friendship—a private, intimate affair—can affect public cultural and intellectual discourse. Solar and Borges' influences on each other led to groundbreaking artistic work produced by them individually and collaboratively. The exhibition will feature a selection of Xul Solar's exquisite early paintings as well as collaborative publications, translations, objects, and artistic interventions in books by the two friends. Public programs will include cross-disciplinary events and a panel discussion featuring Maria Kodama, Sergio Baur, Patricia Artundo, and Silvia Molloy, as well as poetry readings by Lila Zemborain and Cecilia Vicuña. Americas Society will also produce a fully illustrated publication to accompany the exhibition.
Solar and Borges met in 1924 after both had independently traveled throughout Europe where they spent a decade after World War I, and returned to Buenos Aires just when a literary and artistic avant-garde movement was beginning to take hold. They were part of the circle of writers and artists associated with the avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, which was active until 1927. The martinfierristas were part of the Argentine generation whose artistic and political efforts were focused on defining and exploring their national identity through cosmopolitan means. They embraced a universal identity linked to Europe, but also sought to establish a uniquely Argentine national identity grounded in the rural mythology of the gauchos, the iconic Argentine cattlemen. These concepts are central to Borges' early work. Solar's paintings include a number of nationalist symbols dating back to pre-Hispanic times as well as words from two languages he invented to be Argentine, yet universal. Another major theme in Solar’s work is spiritualism and fantasy. He developed a method of painting with watercolors and crayons which he used to create colorful and fantastical works that blended metaphysical ideas about the invisible world with his interests in constructing a national identity and reinventing language.

Darned Bodies : Josefina Concha Hasta Mayo 11 > Galería Praxis Art > Concha.




Nature is the main source of inspiration: its resemblance to the human body, the exuberance of color and form, the vulnerability of live matter, the visual and symbolic richness of the elements, these are the subjects which inspire this body of work. By accumulation and saturation, the thread acquires volume, giving birth to tridimensional forms and infinite shades of color.
The sowing hands don’t try to control the shapes that they create, they become guardians of their quiet growth through the darning, allowing chance to intervene in the process.

superreal: alternative realities in photography and video > Museo de El Barrio > Hasta Mayo 19 > superreal.


This exhibition explores the layered meanings and interpretations of the real as it is represented in photography and video art. Drawing on the presentation of the landscape, the human figure, the world of architecture, various objects and natural phenomena, these images explore alternative realities despite their use of the photographic or video image, traditionally understood as a reflection of actuality. superreal features works that challenge the notion of the camera’s lens as presenting visual accuracy and explores the subversion of narrative form, the creation of a parallel reality, surreal or super-real encounters with objects, people and environments. Partial, hidden, or enigmatic meanings are explored by the artists gathered here. Iconic works by significant photographers and video artists are included along with newer works by younger artists. The incisive points of view and varied methodologies seen here allow the artists to create works that explore the limits of narrative form and its relationship to reality. The works, ranging in dates from the early 1960s to the present, reveal the various ways in which the real is emphasized and subverted, revealed and obscured.

Foto: Betsabee Romero (Mexico, 1963)Ayate con Perro (Ayate fabric with dog), 2005. Chromogenic print, 22 x 40 in. El Museo del Barrio, Gift of the artist and Ramis Barquet


HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION > Celebrating 40 years > Hasta Junio 2 > BRONX.



Created in 1986, the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection has assembled over the years a remarkable group of artworks that convey not only personal narratives but also incisive insights onto contemporary life. For this exhibition, we took inspiration from Allen Ruppersberg's ongoing series Honey, I rearranged the Collection initiated in 2000 and that puts in check the role of institutions, curators and collectors as the bearers of tradition and arbiters of taste. Overlaying different traditions, styles, and narratives, Honey, I rearranged the Collection presents an idea of museum as a restless play of combination.
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection features artworks from the 40th Anniversary's 40 Years, 40 Gifts campaign, which has received support from Ford Foundation and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, as well as individual funders.


* Piero della Francesca in America > Hasta Mayo 19 > The Frick Collection > PIERO.

Piero della Francesca (c. 1411/13–1492), Madonna and Child Attended by Angels, c. 1470s, oil (and tempera?) on wood transferred from panel, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Revered in his own time as a "monarch" of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Sant'Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They will be joined by the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant Angels, his only intact altarpiece in this country. Piero della Francesca in America is organized by guest curator and former Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Nathaniel Silver. The related catalogue will include essays by James Banker, Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University; Machtelt Israëls, Guest Researcher, University of Amsterdam; Elena Squillantini, masters candidate, Università degli Studi di Firenze; and Giacomo Guazzini, doctoral candidate, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Exclusive to the Frick, where it will be shown in the Oval Room, this important exhibition will also be accompanied by a rich and varied schedule of lectures, gallery talks, and seminars.

American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe > Ongoing > Whitney Museum > LEGENDS.

Stuart Davis (1894–1964), Owh! in San Paõ, 1951. Oil on canvas, 52 1/4 × 41 3/4 in. (132.7 × 106 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 52.2. © Estate of Stuart Davis / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe showcases the Whitney’s deep holdings of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by the eighteen leading artists: Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Gaston Lachaise, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joseph Stella. Organized as one- and two-artist presentations, this exhibition provides a survey of each artist’s work across a range of mediums.American Legends is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator.
ON VIEW NOW
As part of this rotating exhibition, works by these artists are on view at the Museum through May 2013: Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Joseph Stella.


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Manolo Valdés : Monumental Sculptures > Hasta Mayo 23, 2013 >> The New York Botanical Garden > VALDES.



Drawing inspiration from the natural landscape of the Botanical Garden, seven towering sculptures by acclaimed Spanish artist Manolo Valdés showcase the relationship between art and nature. The sculptures have been sited to take maximum advantage of the Garden's dramatic views with special attention given to the visual impact of the changing seasons. The artist has designed the installation to include surprising changes in the visual character of the sculptures throughout the seasons.

HISPANIC SOCIETY >> Vision of Spain de Joaquín Sorolla > Permanent collection on view > Audubon Terrace > The Hispanic Society of America.

Vision of Spain. Detail. Joaquín Sorolla.


* Picasso Black and White > Hasta Mayo 17 > Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. > B&W.

Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile (Marie-Thérèse, face et profil)
Paris, 1931
Oil and charcoal on canvas, 111 x 81 cm
Private collection © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo: Béatrice Hatala

Picasso Black and White, the first major exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette throughout his career, will be presented at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition features 118 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from 1904 to 1971, and will offer new and striking insights into Picasso’s vision and working methods. This chronological presentation includes significant loans—many of which have not been exhibited or published before—drawn from museum, private, and public collections across Europe and the United States, including numerous works from the Picasso family.

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