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This text describes the cases of four different and rather obscure operas written by equally obscure composers whose existence, whether fictitious or real, is never confirmed by the author. By intertwining these four stories in the form of a narrative fugue, this book invites the reader to reflect on the relationship between a work, its author, and its interpreters.

Helguera's autobiographical work provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a 21st-century artist during his art school years.

The balancing act between flippancy and gravity is neither easy to achieve nor to sustain, yet Helguera manages it with ease."--"Art Review.

While Helguera writes in a manner that suggests parody, he is simultaneously deadly serious and entirely accurate... [he] astutely observes the politics of culture and its effects on society, what it means to us and how we are taught to appreciate it."--Amanda Coulson, "Art Review.

The Witches of Tepoztln (And Other Operas)" is a compilation of four dissimilar and dark operas, written by equally dark composers whose fiction or reality never completely is confirmed by the author. The book invites the reader to reflect about the gestation of the "masterpiece.

Mining the history of a museum, Helguera asks questions of these long-gone curators. The answers, embedded in the archives, are as engaging and enjoyable as any exhibition on view."--Fred Wilson, artist.

Pablo Helguera is the art world's Herblock. His work satirized the hypocrisy in the world of galleries, museums, collectors, and artists and always goes straight to where it hurts the most." --Jens Hoffmann, curator and director of CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco.

In this Spanish edition, artist Olmeco Beuys lives in the eternal but futile search for recognition, scholarships, and exhibitions while being ignored by the social environment of galleries, curators, artists, and collectors.