{"id":7884,"date":"2019-01-26T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:51:11","slug":"jorge-mendez-blake-in-borders-at-james-cohan-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/26\/jorge-mendez-blake-in-borders-at-james-cohan-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Mendez Blake in &#8216;Borders&#8217; at James Cohan Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borders are front and center in U.S. politics and at James Cohan Gallery where Jorge Mendez Blake\u2019s \u2018Amerika\u2019 bisects the main exhibition space, arresting both visitors\u2019 thoughts and physical progress through the show.\u00a0 Mid-way along the base of the wall, Mendez Blake has placed a copy of Kafka\u2019s \u2018Amerika,\u2019 the troubled tale of a European immigrant to New York, intimating that migration is a fraught undertaking from start to finish.\u00a0 (On view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/borders\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea and Lower East Side spaces through Feb 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7885\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7885\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7885\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jorge_mendez_blake-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mendez Blake, Amerika, bricks, edition of \u2019Amerika\u2019 by Franz Kafka, 72 7\/8 x 11 7\/8 x 400 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borders are front and center in U.S. politics and at James Cohan Gallery where Jorge Mendez Blake\u2019s \u2018Amerika\u2019 bisects the main exhibition space, arresting both visitors\u2019 thoughts and physical progress through the show.\u00a0 Mid-way along the base of the wall, Mendez Blake has placed a copy of Kafka\u2019s \u2018Amerika,\u2019 the troubled tale of a European &hellip; 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