Wall Street International Magazine

Thursday, June 4, 2020

In April 2020, the sovereign credit rating of Mexico was downgraded by Wall Street Rating Agencies one grade above junk status

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Pemex refinery in Tabasco

Pemex is the world’s most indebted oil company.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Economy & Politics

Examining the unraveling of Pemex, Mexico’s national petroleum company

Revenge is a feeling as old as the history of our humanity and of animals too

Science & Technology

An integral part of human and animal life

Words sometimes become shy as life passes by

The silence of Being

Words have become shy

Today, racism is widespread

Economy & Politics

Benefits of equality

For a happy and sustainable world, we urgently need to decrease excessive economic inequality

On the Street

The International Hot-Air Balloon Festival

The International Hot-Air Balloon Festival in Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

Taylor and Jordan read together

Rebel Poets Against the Machine

An interview with Tokyo Poetry Journal editors Jeffrey Johnson, Taylor Mignon and Jordan A. Y. Smith

A reason for everything

Everything happens for a reason

An opportunity to grow and learn

José Molina, And the ship leaves / Y la nave va / E la nave va.

José Molina.Sentimientos

The age of our arts

Gothic 6 Photo by Raissa Bi

Interview with Simone Racioppo

SR Jewels: an Italian fashion designer at the Carrousel du Louvre

The Tribalistas

Brazil in Boston

The Tribalistas are just what the weary world needs

Architecture & Design

The Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin

Interview with Alexey Barkov

My personal contribution was my recklessness

Botanic Garden entrance, present condition

Small Stalinist splendors in Central Asia

Behind their elegance the faults of a totalitarian regime

Art

Zhang Peili, A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) (2008). Five-Channel/five-screen video projection (PAL), silent/colour, 13’14” with objects preserved from the film set destroyed during shooting, dimensions variable. © Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing. Courtesy of the artist and Boers-Li Gallery

Interview with Paul Gladston

Contemporary Chinese art and contemporaneity

Biot, the National Museum Fernand Léger

A visit to the National Museum Fernand Léger

Between the hills and the deep blue sea

Culture

Elizabeth Macneal

An interview with Elizabeth Macneal

Inside the Doll Factory

Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, Salon de Madame Geoffrin

Man as the center of the world

Illuminism, situational clarifications

Economy & Politics

In the post-SARS period, much more could have been done in preparation to deal with expected-unexpected SARS-CoV-2

Chinese Chernobyl, American Waterloo, Russian Borodino

From camel to dromedary?

While Western countries are about to come out of the woods, many poor countries are in the middle of the Corona crisis

Corona: the impossible choice

If the poorest countries are not provided with more assistance, their leaders will be forced to put the economy first

Entertainment

Woody Allen, A Rainy Day In New York

The latest Woody

A bright rainy day in New York

Roots House, Shenzhen

An interview with Moss

Bringing soul to a Special Economic Zone: Roots House, Shenzhen, China

Fashion

The Scentarium

A journey through scent with an international fragrance designer

Andrea Patrick Forte with her husband Fabiano Anthony Forte

Andrea Patrick Forte, a path in fashion

Editor-in-chief of Gladys magazine, former Miss America and wife of famous singer Fabian Forte

Feature

I never imagined a time in which you, with your vast lands and boundless novelties, would become eerily reclusive

A letter of condolences

Looking in the sky expecting to see a dove with an olive leaf on her beak

Artificial Intelligence science fiction tales

Food & Wine

Caribbean Rice and Beans ingredients

Caribbean Rice and Beans

Chef Bonea’s recipe

Foods that look like the organs they benefit

10 Foods that look like the organs they benefit

God’s pharmacy is amazing

Science & Technology

Ancient calculator

Cognitive aspects of mental calculation

Mental math to better understand working memory and image schemata

Profiling cybercriminals

Brief anatomy of a hacker

Categorizing evil patterns

Sport

Samer Tawk First Lebanese Olympic Cross-Country Skier

The Power of Pursuing a Dream

Samer Tawk First Lebanese Olympic Cross-Country Skier

Vietnam’s Under-23 Team

A Hard-Fought Moment of Unity in Vietnam

Vietnam’s Under-23 Team Made the AFC Finals

Travel

Beau-Rivage Geneva, Duplexes View

Beau-Rivage Genève

On the fair shores of Lake Geneva

Mauritius

Sensationally sensuous

Wellness

The Himalayas mountain range for 30 years its summit has been hidden from view by thick smoke and fog: the lockdown has cleared the view

Is there a bright side to the COVID-19 pandemic?

A positive message for us all

Zhan Zhuang

Zhan Zhuang: first part

The ancient art of standing like a tree

Explore the Calendar

Worldwide Dresden Kobarid Vienna Washington Cambridge Montreal Warsaw Houston Ottawa Ljubljana Sidney Leipzig New York Tallinn Santiago Stuttgart Québec Brussels Zurich Stockholm Honolulu Edinburgh

Transubstantiations

4 Jun — 4 Jul 2020 at Atelje Galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Daniele Bongiovanni, Era (Epoch) . Courtesy of The Wall Space Gallery

Daniele Bongiovanni

5 — 25 Jun 2020 at The Wall Space Gallery in Falkirk, United Kingdom

ReVisión. Courtesy of Denver Art Museum

6 Jun 2020 — 28 Feb 2021 at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, United States

Sanna Kannisto: Close Observer, 2010.

10 Jun — 30 Aug 2020 at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland

Kostis Velonis
Circus Mind 2, 2020
mixed media on paper
100X70 cm
Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens-Thessaloniki

Kostis Velonis. Ghost Beggar

10 Jun — 26 Sep 2020 at the Kalfayan Gallery in Athens, Greece

Maja Vukoje. Courtesy of Belvedere 21

11 Jun — 8 Nov 2020 at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Austria

Hon Chi-Fun (1922-2019), Untitled, 2000s, Acrylic on canvas, 76x122cm

Uniquely Hong Kong

11 Jun — 3 Sep 2020 at the Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Herman August Weizenegger. Courtesy of Kunstgewerbemuseum

Herman August Weizenegger

12 Jun — 11 Oct 2020 at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, Germany

Jacqueline de Jong. Courtesy of WIELS

Jacqueline de Jong

12 Jun — 16 Aug 2020 at WIELS in Brussels, Belgium

Anna Ancher. Courtesy of Skagens Museum

13 Jun — 18 Oct 2020 at the Skagens Museum in Skagen, Denmark

Aztec. Courtesy of Weltmuseum Wien

15 Jun 2020 — 6 Jan 2021 at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria

Aztec. Courtesy of Weltmuseum Wien

15 Jun 2020 — 21 Jan 2021 at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria

Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie. Courtesy of American Folk Art Museum

Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie

16 Jun — 18 Oct 2020 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, United States

Photo by Melanie Schiff
Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

18 Jun — 1 Aug 2020 at the Xavier Hufkens in Ixelles-Elsene, Belgium

Eidinger Lars © Martin Schoeller / Courtesy of CAMERA WORK

Martin Schoeller

20 Jun — 29 Aug 2020 at the Camera Work in Berlin, Germany

Julie Mehretu. Courtesy of Whitney Museum

26 Jun — 20 Sep 2020 at the Whitney Museum in New York, United States

L'Affichomania. Courtesy of Bellevue Arts Museum

26 Jun — 23 Aug 2020 at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, United States

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