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This volume celebrates the 10th anniversary of Museo Jumex, Mexico City’s most important contemporary art museum, and its unique collection. Located in the vibrant Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Museo Jumex opened its doors to the public in 2013 as a one-of-a-kind museum devoted to the production and discussion of contemporary art. Founded by Eugenio López Alonso, a pioneer in the realm of contemporary art collecting in Mexico, and designed by Sir David Chipperfield, 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture award, Museo Jumex has achieved international recognition for its dual mission of bringing works of renowned international artists to Mexico for the first time and elevating the work of today’s Mexican and Latin American artists.

From the building of the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the slums of the Lower East Side to magnificent art deco skyscrapers, New York’s remarkable rise, reinvention, and growth is not just the tale of a city, but the story of a nation. This beautiful book lays out the streets, sidewalks, culture, and crowds of the greatest city in the world—in all the greatness of its extremes, contradictions, energy, and attitude. With vistas of Central Park alongside Coney Island and the sleaze of Times Square, this city portrait champions the complexity and chaos of New York—its architecture, culture, fashion, and ethnic diversity. More than just a tribute to the metropolis and its civic, social, and photographic heritage, New York. Portrait of a City also pays homage to the indomitable spirit of those who call themselves New Yorkers: full of hope and strength, resolute in their determination to succeed among its glass and granite towers.

La ópera 'no es una reliquia del pasado'; es un mundo vivo en el que se reflejan los cambios culturales y sociales. Así lo demuestra Tomás Marco en esta ambiciosa cartografía mundial del genero que recorre el último siglo y cuarto, aproximadamente, de su historia. De Puccini, Strauss y Janác?ek hasta Pedro Halffter, Michel van der Aa, Toshio Hosokawa o Rachel Peters, pasando por Schönberg, Britten o Stockhausen, a lo largo de estas páginas asistimos, fascinados, a la disolución de su forma decimonónica hasta sus mutaciones más experimentales. No se había escrito antes una obra de esta envergadura sobre la ópera de nuestros días. 'Durante el siglo XX, todo, sometido a una presión tremenda, saltó por los aires. Fue una lucha sin cuartel. Había que encontrar nuevos caminos que permitieran la supervivencia del genero. Se siguieron viejas fórmulas, se crearon otras nuevas, algunos creyeron que la ópera estaba muerta, que ya no servía, y se negaron a componer obras líricas; otros -la mayoría- aceptaron el reto y consiguieron en algunos casos resultados formidables.

Quintessential nineties images, taken from editorials for fashion magazines as well as many never-before-seen outtakes of behind-the-scenes candid moments, constitute this book by Hanson, who is known for her unique female gaze and famous for capturing the essence of youth in her vibrant and highly energetic images of beautiful girls having fun. Texture, light, and emotion play a pivotal role in her iconic documentary-style work. The book features intimate photographs of her muses and the top supermodels of the era, including Kristen McMenamy, Christy Turlington, Carla Bruni, Stephanie Seymour, Eva Herzigová, Milla Jovovich, Linda Evangelista, and many more. This is the first major book of Hanson’s published in the last twenty years, and it presents a nostalgic time capsule of one of the most fetishized decades of fashion.

Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the decade of Coco Chanel and Josephine Baker, Art Deco and Surrealism, café culture and cabaret. The most famous artists of the epoch, later called Classic Modernism, are in close contact and have lively exchanges with one another – including Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, René Clair, Sonia Delaunay, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí. The creative life and all its excesses flourish bohème is the word for this way of living. Composers like Igor Stravinsky, writers like James Joyce or Ernest Hemingway and exiles from Eastern Europe like Constantin Brancusi or Marc Chagall enrich the illustrious scene on Montparnasse.