Zoë Lescaze

New York

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Writer. Author of "Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past" (@taschen 2017)

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Articles

Artists Stand Up for Invasive Species

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze

Artists and scientists are finding ways to highlight troublesome plants and animals, tell their stories and, in some cases, use them as raw materials. Mason Heberling, an invasion biologist and botany curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, crouched down in a woodland park just outside the city and swept away the leaf litter. It was March and the forest looked dormant. The trees were bare, the shrubs brown.
1 Man. 12 Strings. 300 Guitars.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Zoë Lescaze

Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell reveals why he never confronted late singer about his heroin addiction"You couldn't talk Tom into anything," Campbell says of the rock icon, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017. Mike Campbell is ready to shed some light on his complicated friendship with the late Tom Petty. As a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Campbell had a front-row …
The Artists Giving Figurative Sculpture New Life

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze

IT'S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the one hand, we have more ways to modify flesh than ever before. We regulate hormones and heartbeats, restore lost hearing, replace faulty livers and reconstruct faces. And yet the body feels increasingly vulnerable. Between deepfakes and the distortions of social media, appearances are subject to scrutiny and doubt. Covid-19 revealed how even slight physical differences can be fatal.
New Mexico Is Where the Outlaw Artists Live

Oct 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze |Tony Floyd

T's Art issue looks at the iconoclastic artists who have found power in saying no. BELEN, N.M., IS a sun-bleached stucco town set in a vast expanse of desert. From here to the horizon, there's almost nothing taller than a telephone pole. Highway signs offer ominous haikus ("Notice / Do not pickup hitchhikers / Prison facilities") and inadvertent riddles ("Dust storms may exist"). Although it's only 35 miles south of Albuquerque, Belen feels utterly removed from the rhythms of urban life.
Una antigua jugadora de pelota debuta en un museo

Apr 29, 2024 | infobae.com | Zoë Lescaze

SculptureMuseumsArchaeology and AnthropologyNational Museum of Mexican ArtMexicoyour-feed-scienceChicago (Ill)La enorme estatua forma parte de la exposición "Mujeres huastecas mesoamericanas: Diosas, guerreras y gobernadoras" en el Museo Nacional de Arte Mexicano en Chicago. La mujer, tallada en piedra pálida, lleva un tocado en forma de pico, pendientes circulares y el cinturón ancho y las rodilleras de una antigua atleta mesoamericana. Su expresión es feroz, su pose triunfante.
Exposición binacional de arte busca restablecer equilibrio fronterizo

Apr 28, 2024 | diario.mx | Zoë Lescaze

El Paso y Ciudad Juárez— Si pasas demasiado rápido frente a la escultura –una delgada barra de latón suspendida en una caja de exhibición transparente–, es posible que no notes que esta obra de arte es usable. Con un poste en cada extremo, la delicada pieza de metal es un solo arete, diseñado para ser usado por dos personas.
Una antigua jugadora de pelota debuta en un museo

Apr 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze

La mujer, tallada en piedra pálida, lleva un tocado en forma de pico, pendientes circulares y el cinturón ancho y las rodilleras de una antigua atleta mesoamericana. Su expresión es feroz, su pose triunfante. En su mano derecha sujeta por el pelo la cabeza decapitada de una víctima de sacrificio.
Ancient Female Ballplayer from Huasteca Region on Exhibit - The New Y…

Apr 26, 2024 | archive.ph | Zoë Lescaze

The six-foot woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient Mesoamerican athlete. Her expression is fierce, her pose triumphant. In her right hand, she grips the severed head of a sacrificial victim by the hair. The sculpture is the first life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer found to date in the Huasteca, a tropical region spanning parts of several states along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
Ancient Female Ballplayer Makes Public Debut

Apr 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze

The six-foot woman, carved in pale stone, wears a peaked headdress, circular earrings and the wide hip belt and kneepads of an ancient Mesoamerican athlete. Her expression is fierce, her pose triumphant. In her right hand, she grips the severed head of a sacrificial victim by the hair. The sculpture is the first life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer found to date in the Huasteca, a tropical region spanning parts of several states along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
Hoping Art Can Strike a Balance on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Apr 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Zoë Lescaze

In a biennial show this spring and summer between two museums on either side of the border, artists tell fresh stories about a contentious region. Tania Dolz (left) and Maria Galindo were connected by an artwork, Haydee Alonso's "'Bad' Hyphens Separate; 'Good' Hyphens Attach" during the 2024 Border Biennial, a show involving museums in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Credit...