By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National World Culture Museum (MCCM) opened an exhibit of more than 150 Japanese calendars for 2019 on Monday, Jan. 7. The exhibit, organized in cooperation with the Japanese Embassy, includes pictures of Japanese landscapes, temples, castles, volcanos, cherry blossom trees, water paintings and other cultural images. The exhibit will remain on display at the MCCM,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Cultured 18th century British gentlemen were known for their appreciation of Greco-Roman art, and more than a few of these refined art aficionados made their way to Italy to procure a classic piece of history or two for their own personal collections. (They seldom ventured into Greece because, at the time, it was under Ottoman rule.) Over
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s beloved, fanciful monsters known as alebrijes were invented in the 1930s by Pedro Linares in the southern state of Oaxaca. One night, while in a mild coma from illness, Linares dreamed of surreal magical animals playing in a forest and all shouting the word, “alebrijes.” When he awoke, he began creating these creatures
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In 2002, an unbreakable bond between the artwork of the Mexican 20th century surrealist artist Remedios Varo and Mexico’s Modern Art Museum (MAM) was established when philanthropist Walter Grüen and his wife Anna Alexandra Varsoviano made an unprecedented donation of 39 of the late artist’s works. This year, that extraordinary collection was expanded even further with a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Paper Mirror, the first large-scale exhibit of works by the late U.S. visual artist Nancy Spero, will go on display at Mexico City’s Tamayo Museum on Saturday, Oct. 6. A pioneer of feminist art, Spero’s work has been described as “an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege and male dominance.”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For some people, a watch is nothing more than a convenient body adornment that comes in handy for not missing the bus or being on time for a business meeting. For others, it is a precision mechanical instrument that represents a legacy of artistic expression and creative engineering that serves as a personal statement of who the wearer is and what
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By MELISSA T. CASTRO They say that “art is in the eye of the beholder.” This more often than not rings true when you find yourself in some obscure gallery trying to comprehend how something can be called art when it resembles your three-year-old’s scribble masterpiece. But it is art that allows a medium for free thinking, for political and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One hundred years after his birth in the tiny village of Mvezo, the Rainbow Nation of South Africa paid tribute to the life and legacy of its heroic anti-apartheid revolutionary and first black president, Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday, July 18, with corresponding homages to his ideals and accomplishments conducted throughout the world. Here in Mexico, that embassy’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It used to be that, when it came to interior design, rugs and carpeting were an afterthought, something that was added at the end of the process and tailored to match that rest of the room’s décor. Not any more. According to Melanie Turner, North American vice president for the upscale, London-based The Rug Company, today’s deep-pocketed,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An exhibit of more than 180 pieces from the Vatican Museum in Rome is now on display at Mexico City’s Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso Museum. The exhibit, which opened Wednesday, June 20, is part of an ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican. It includes works by Italian
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