“I think that the press has been too fast to reduce the conversation to heroes and villains and martyrs, and to suggest that what MoMA is doing is necessarily bad. We want to get more information out. We want to share the problem with others and invite them to really take a hard look.”
Tag: 01.16.14
Juan Gelman, 83, Argentina’s Great Poet
The Cervantes Prize winner, considered one of the Spanish language’s greatest 20th-century writers, was known for both his stark, powerful verse and his opposition to his country’s military junta. (Gelman’s own son and daughter-in-law were disappeared.)