Julia Cooke » Profiles and Personal Essays http://www.julia-cooke.com freelance journalist, specializing in culture, architecture, design and art, based in Mexico City. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You can keep your damn Matisse http://www.julia-cooke.com/2011/11/uncategorized/you-can-keep-your-damn-matisse/ http://www.julia-cooke.com/2011/11/uncategorized/you-can-keep-your-damn-matisse/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:59:10 +0000 admin http://www.julia-cooke.com/?p=589

My profile of insanely prolific and colorful design writer Steve Heller– a fetish for Nazi design esoterica and 140 books written, co-authored, edited, or somehow otherwise compiled by the man– for The Village Voice, linked here.

 

 

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Link, English

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Link to ArtInfo web version of story (English)

]]> http://www.julia-cooke.com/2011/01/art-architecture-and-design/art/prime-time-in-havana/feed/ 0 Vintage Furniture is Good for the Soul http://www.julia-cooke.com/2010/03/profiles-and-personal-essays/trolling-for-vintage-furniture-is-good-for-the-soul/ http://www.julia-cooke.com/2010/03/profiles-and-personal-essays/trolling-for-vintage-furniture-is-good-for-the-soul/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:23:33 +0000 admin http://www.julia-cooke.com/?p=478 An essay on my soft spot for Mexico City vintage market La Lagunilla, where I spent many a Sunday while living in el DF.

The Christian Science Monitor (link, English)

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Car Culture (link, English)

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Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, December 2008 (English, PDF)

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Portfolio.com, April 2008 (link)

]]> http://www.julia-cooke.com/2008/04/profiles-and-personal-essays/mexico%e2%80%99s-expo-sexo/feed/ 0 My Working Life: Hector Mijangos http://www.julia-cooke.com/2007/09/profiles-and-personal-essays/my-working-life-hector-mijangos/ http://www.julia-cooke.com/2007/09/profiles-and-personal-essays/my-working-life-hector-mijangos/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:06:03 +0000 admin http://www.julia-cooke.com/compendium/?p=34 One of Monocle’s monthly articles tracking a day in the life of funky creative folk; I hung out with the founder of Mexican indie record label Noiselab, Hector Mijangos.

Monocle, September 2007 (link)

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An in-depth profile of controversial Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, who moved to Mexico City from Spain in the mid-nineties and quickly began an artistic routine that highlights the country’s economic disparities in very uncomfortable — and effective —  ways.

Published in Gatopardo, an acclaimed Latin American magazine that could be compared to Vanity Fair in the U.S.

Gatopardo, March 2007 (Spanish, PDF)

(Click here to download the text in English)

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