Pablo Helguera

Urbano Project will present Librería Donceles, a socially-engaged art project consisting of an itinerant bookstore of more than 10,000 used books in Spanish. While in residence at Urbano, the participatory art installation will be a meeting place for the community, hosting a series of bilingual salon-like gatherings for conversations, performances and workshops designed to encourage cultural understanding, tolerance and social activism.

New York artist Pablo Helguera’s secondhand bookstore, Librería Donceles, seems particularly well-suited for Boston, a city known for its literary leanings. The traveling art project, comprising more than 10,000 volumes spanning numerous genres, opens Friday for an 11-week run at the art studio Urbano in Jamaica Plain and will provide visitors with a unique experience: Organizers say it will be the only bookstore in town devoted to used Spanish-language titles.

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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

Holographic activists marched through the streets of Madrid recently in protest of a new law aimed at preventing Spanish citizens from demonstrating against Congress.

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10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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Less a survey of Brooklyn’s artists than it is a survey of commercially and critically recognized artists working in the borough

For the exhibition "Librería Donceles," Pablo Helguera installed a functioning Spanish-language used-book store in the large front room

Can a citywide initiative to plant vegetable gardens be a work of art? Or an assembly of choruses singing to the glories of a salamander?

I’m happy to report that I’m alive. I made it through my first conference presentation as part of The Now Museum Graduate Student Symposium

Pablo Helguera (1971, Mexico City) is an interdisciplinary artist and Director of Adult and Academic Programs in the Department of Education

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