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...1920s Davis saw the broad, sharp-edged, irregularly shaped planes of color in some of Picasso's later Cubist work and was inspired to break them out at larger scale and combine them with images from billboards and household products--in other words, to produce the first stirrings of Pop Art, nearly four decades before Andy Warhol made eyes at a can of Campbell's soup...
...upmarket Spanish bathroom manufacturer Artquitect, with crystal-ceramic basins on dressing-table-like legs, laser-cut mirrors and gilt surface finishes, left the design trade press in a lather of excitement. Showtime, Hay?n's subsequent furniture collection for another Spanish design brand, BD, also gives period features a sleek pop twist. There is a gleaming lacquered sideboard that can have up to six differently shaped legs, and a canopied armchair that resembles a 21st century hansom...
...taking elements of contemporary music--from north-of-the-border punk to the indigenous sounds of Veracruz--and synthesizing them into a fluid, singular brand of rock en español. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...
...eighth album, the Argentine rock band sticks to the basics. The songs are guitar-driven, glam-rock-inspired ditties that make their point in less than three minutes. Singer Adrian Dargelos leads the charge with an impish voice that recalls the Strokes, but without the ennui. On pop-inflected songs like Puesto, it's impossible not to sing "woo-ooh" right along with the chorus. That doesn't mean the band has no bite. Smart lyrics take enough stinging jabs at kleptomaniac pols and the Argentine upper class to keep the band sounding authentically rebellious...
This folk-pop amalgam never descends into coffeehouse cliché. For most of the songs, the Mexican chanteuse accompanies her velvety voice on acoustic guitar and now and then some rocking accordion. (Yes, accordions can rock.) She even experiments with reggaeton on Primer Día but makes it her own by adding Spanish guitar. The title track recalls a Yellow Submarine--era Beatles--as digested by Mexico. But it's the effortless singing and light tropical beat on Sin Documentos that catch Venegas at her swayworthy best...