Lakra

Band songwriter and keyboardist Arun Lakra says the scientists appear to have their pocket protectors in a knot and vows “Pluto Rocks” will strike back at the IAU.

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"Lakra is a much more complex artist than people realize," said his longtime art dealer and friend Jose Kuri, a partner in the

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It's a departure from the smaller-scale work that made Dr. Lakra's reputation: tattoolike drawings that he inks on found objects like dolls, toys and girlie pictures culled from midcentury magazines.

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But when the Mexican tattoo artist known as Dr. Lakra arrived last month to install his exhibition at the Drawing Center, he headed straight for the

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Alonzo, who organized Dr. Lakra's first solo museum show for the Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston last year.

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Dr. Lakra and his older sister, the conceptual artist Laureana Toledo, spent their childhood travelling around the world and continued visiting their father wherever he was living - New York, Paris, Barcelona - after their parents divorced in 1980.

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Born in Mexico City as Jerónimo López Ramírez, Dr. Lakra is the eldest son of the anthropologist and poet Elisa Ramírez Castañeda and the painter Francisco Toledo, one of Mexico's towering cultural figures.

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Also in the mix are large paintings of faces, animals and internal organs, which Dr. Lakra painted in the space during the 10-day installation, and dozens of small ink-on-vellum drawings, made over the last year in his Oaxaca studio.

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"My father took us to many, many museums," Dr. Lakra said.

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In its flamboyance the work at the Drawing Center seems a departure from Dr. Lakra's personality.

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