Pablo Helguera

Once upon a time in the art world, we all carried business cards.  We could not go to an opening without them. No more. But the centuries-old practice generated innovative approaches and uses amongst artists starting in the 1960s. pablohelguera.substack.com/p/a-card-size-…

Beautiful Eccentrics: When You Build It and They Don't Come pablohelguera.substack.com/p/when-you-bui…

Beautiful Eccentrics: Learning from Pulcinella pablohelguera.substack.com/p/learning-fro…

Beautiful Eccentrics: ____Comes as No Surprise pablohelguera.substack.com/p/____comes-as…

Beautiful Eccentrics: The Estheticist Returns pablohelguera.substack.com/p/the-esthetic…

Read this whenever you are the most busy and don't have time to read anything: Intellectual Escape , by @Estheticist pablohelguera.substack.com/p/intellectual…

This is the first in a two-part column on the subject of how contemporary artists look at war crimes and international criminal justice. Here is a conversation with Andrea Geyer on her work about the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. pablohelguera.substack.com/p/the-cause-of…

Does anyone remember these T-Shirts? This week I tried to write a few thoughts to start to make sense of the role that art plays in making representations of traumatic events: pablohelguera.substack.com/p/chrysalism-a…

Today on Beautiful Eccentrics: 50 years ago, in 1971, during the worst moments of the military dictatorship in Brazil, the critic and curator Frederico Morais, who was at the time in charge of the education programs of the Museum…lnkd.in/gm23XEF lnkd.in/gtqG-y5

Today on Beautiful Eccentrics: I asked the children of well known artists what, in their view, are the challenges and benefits of having a parent who is an artist and how they negotiated them. #Beautifuleccentrics pablohelguera.substack.com/p/all-the-arti…

Today on Beautiful Eccentrics: the opaque practice of backdating artworks. pablohelguera.substack.com/p/backdating-o…

@maggieNYT Nate Silver’s 538 gave Biden 90% chances of winning on election day. This is another deranged fiction of his.

Wasn’t the same said about Clinton’s chances at like 8:30 pm election night and didn’t he and others spend years mocking such predictions?

Under no circumstances should a nomination go forward in the United States Senate. Our full statement:

We are in need for an afternoon sitter for Estela. Please let us know if you know of someone! facebook.com/pablo.helguera…

I have been asked to give a 30-second speech at a major conference tomorrow. I better think what I am going to say. Thinking of Baltazar Gracián's famous quip, "Good things, if brief, are twice as good." Which makes me think that if it sucks it will be at least half good.

I have been invited to give a 30 second speech at a major conference tomorrow. I better think what I am going to say. Thinking of Baltazar Gracian’s quip: “ Good things, if brief, are twice as good.” But if it is that brief, is it even a thing?

Bolivia: The Extreme Right Takes Advantage of a Popular Uprising - Toward Freedom towardfreedom.org/front-page-fea…