TOM SACHS: BOOMBOX RETROSPECTIVE, 1999–2016 @ BROOKLYN MUSEUM

TOM SACHS: BOOMBOX RETROSPECTIVE, 1999–2016 @ BROOKLYN MUSEUM

New York-based contemporary artist Tom Sachs has taken over Brooklyn Museum’s Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, turning it into a living sound system through a series of 18 sculptural boom boxes. The Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective exhibition in turn hovers somewhere between art and science, melding the functional and mythological.

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Interview with Juan Barletta

Interview with Juan Barletta

Juan Barletta (1974) was born and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina; he studied fine art at Neuquén School of Arts. Juan’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan's images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes towards the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.

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