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Plot09: This World & Nearer Ones
Opens June 27, 2009
Reception: 2-4 pm
PLOT is a new public art quadrennial, produced and presented by Creative Time. This World & Nearer Ones is the first edition of PLOT, and will be held this summer on Governors Island. 19 artworks by international contemporary artists will be presented including Mexicans Teresa Margolles and Tercerunquinto. The exhibition is free and open to the public Friday-Sunday.

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Lázaro Valiente
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 9 PM
Three silent films scored by Lázaro Valiente from Mexico City. Curated by Molly Surno.
Additional performances at Goodbye Blue Monday (7/02), Pianos (7/07), Rooftop Films (7/18), and Nacotheque (7/25).


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Photo Exhibit: "El Ojo de tu Vecino"
July 2 - September 5, 2009
Opening July 2 at 6:00 PM
Rafael DiazCasas curates a photography exhibition by Latin American artists, including Mexican Dulce Pinzón.

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Teresa Margolles talk at MoMA
Thursday, July 9th 2009, 6:30 PM
Panel Discussions at The Museum of Modern Art:
Teresa Margolles, one of the foremost artists working in Mexico today, is representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale. In this program, presented in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Margolles discusses how she explores death, and the relics and rituals that surround it, with her installations, objects, and other media.

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Rocío Boliver: La Congelada de Uva
Friday, July 10, 2009 from 7 - 11 PM
Performing artist Rocío Boliver, better known as La congelada de uva (The grape ice pop) will perform at the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn.

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Heriberto Garcia: Clothing, Naming & Performance
Opening Saturday, July 11 from 6 - 9 PM
Through July 18
Clothing, Naming & Performance portraits two big subjects: on the one hand the beauty and the feminine aesthetic ideals and, by the another side, the transexuality and the transvestite, is to say, analyze how these people perform material and symbolically a true way to understand the femeninity and the beauty.

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Film Screening: Lake Tahoe
Starts Friday, July 12, 2009
ONE WEEK ONLY
Teenage Juan crashes his family’s car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town, and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her real place in life is as a lead singer in a punk band, and to “The One who Knows”, a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy.

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Screening: Till the last Drop... My Heart
Friday, July 17 at 7:30pm
A declaration of love to Mexico and its cultural roots through the women who gave their voices and essence to Mexican music. This endearing documentary features the legendary Chavela Vargas, along with Lila Downs and Astrid Hadad, among other singers, who share their intimacies, memories of their lives, their pain and feelings, and above all, their music.

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