Background
Gallo, Ruben was born on December 22, 1969 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Son of Ruben Gallo Ruiz and Maria Teresa Carmen Godinez Prado.
( The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent p...)
The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent periods in recent Mexican history marked by political assassinations, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the signing of NAFTA, a catastrophic economic crisis, and the defeat of the PRI after seventy years of one-party rule. How did art respond to these events? To answer this question, Gallo examines some of the most radical artistic experiments produced in this period, from Daniela Rossell’s photographs of Mexican millionaires to Teresa Margolles’s manipulations of human remains, from Santiago Sierra’s controversial work with human subjects to Vicente Razo’s creation of a Salinas museum.
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(The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "cronicas" - sh...)
The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "cronicas" - short texts that are a cross between literary essay and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today. This is not the "City of Palaces" of yesteryear, but the vibrant, chaotic, anarchic city of the 1980s and 1990s - the city of garbage mafias, corrupt ex-presidents, and spectacular crime. Taken together in all their variety, these texts form a mosiac of life in Mexico City. Like the visitor wandering through the city streets, the reader should expect to be constantly surprised. Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. Like the streets of the city, The Mexico City Reader is brimming with life, crowded with flaneurs, flirtatious students, Indian dancers, food vendors, fortune tellers, political activists, and peasant protesters. The writers include expert theorists - a panoply of writers from Carlos Monsivais and Jorge Ibaguengoitia to Fabrizio Mejia Madrid and Juieta Garcia Gonzalez - brought together precisely because they are experienced practitioners of the city.
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art critic Latin American literature educator
Gallo, Ruben was born on December 22, 1969 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Son of Ruben Gallo Ruiz and Maria Teresa Carmen Godinez Prado.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 2000.
Assistant professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, since 2002. Visiting assistant professor Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2000—2001.
( The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent p...)
(The Mexico City Reader is an anthology of "cronicas" - sh...)
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Member of Modern Language Association (Kovacs prize 2006).