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artnet.com
Top Museum Shows, April 2010
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WBUR
At The ICA, Body Art Morphs Into Fine Art
by Andrea Shea, April 22, 2010
Dr. Lakra has traveled the world studying traditions of tattooing in different cultures. The themes in his vast body of work range from the ritualistic to the subversive. Even his nickname means “Dr. Delinquent” in Spanish.  more>>

Boston Globe
Skin deep
by Sebastian Smee, April 16, 2010
"Wanton complexity is at the heart of Dr. Lakra’s tattooing style. He is like a DJ of different tattooing idioms. Sampling styles from all over, he turns the link between tattooing and identity into a kind of jabbering tower of Babel, transposed to the skin."  more>>

Vanity Fair
Dr. Lakra Applies an Ink Gun to Mexico's Cultural Heritage
by Nils Bernstein, April 12, 2010
"A hugely successful tattoo artist, Lakra is enjoying increased appreciation for his non-skin work, where he 'tattoos' and otherwise transforms such iconographic images and objects as 50s pin-ups, medical illustrations, Japanese prints, wrestlers, superheroes, and children’s dolls."  more>>

New York Times
Week Ahead, April 11 - 17
By Roberta Smith
"It helps that in addition to tattooing real people, Dr. Lakra also draws and incises tattoolike motifs of certain stereotypes: scantily clad women, starlets and wrestlers culled from old magazines. He also appropriates the occasional Japanese print. The results are scary, obsessive and sexy, mixing eras and cultures with a sardonic, even vengeful edge."  more>>

El Planeta
El oscuro y creativo mundo del Dr. Lakra
By Jim Sullivan, April 9, 2010
"¿Cuándo comenzaste a tatuar, y cuándo te diste cuenta que esto era algo que se podría traducir a una forma de hacer arte?

Empecé a tatuar en el año de 1990 o 1991. El tatuaje puede ser muchas cosas pero siempre supe que también podía ser visto, o usado como una forma de arte. No necesitas traducir nada."  more>>

Boston Phoenix
Tattoo you
Dr. Lakra loves the ink
By Jim Sullivan, April 6, 2010
"Dr. Lakra inks on skin, but also on many kinds of inanimate surfaces. His first US solo exhibition — 60-plus pieces, mostly from American collectors — opens this Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art."  more>>