By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A four-part festival of art from India will open at Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Friday, March 11. The festival, which is intended to mark both International Women’s Day and the celebration for the 75th anniversary of the India’s national independence, will include a presentation of Indian films, paintings, sculptures, dance
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Franz Meyer Museum, in downtown Mexico City, on Monday, Feb. 28, opened a entirely new permanent exhibit hall with a collection of medieval through contemporary engravings and paintings. The exhibition hall currently contains 56 original works by outstanding international and Mexican artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Juan Correa, José de Ribera
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS South Korea has always believed in the power of music diplomacy. Just take a gander at how its has milked the golden cow of K-pop music, winning the love and devotion of millions of fans around the globe with heart-throb-producing boy bands that can rival the likes of One Direction and the Backstreet Boys. So it was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After a yearlong hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Fantasy Lab, the interactive adventure in Mexico City’s Plaza Metrópoli Shopping Mall in Colonia San Pedro de los Pinos, has reopened with a spooky new display of kinetic art and optical illusions. The new show, titled “Arts Night,” is a whirlwind of moving sculptures, interactive optical illusions and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City government will host a gala Day of the Dead parade on Sunday, Oct. 31, the city’s Culture Secretariat announced Monday, Oct. 11. The parade, which will begin at noon in the capital’s central plaza Zócalo and proceed 8.7 kilometers up Avenida Juárez and Paseo de la Reforma to the Campo Marte
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The renowned Italian dance group No Gravity is slated to headline the 49th edition of Mexico’s International Cervantino Festival (FIC) in Guanajuato in October. The group will perform a multidisciplinary live and virtual presentation based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, with a mind-boggling display of synchronized, gravity-defying ballet. Inferno is part of the troupe’s three-part opus of Dante’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Franz Mayer Museum opened an exhibit on Wednesday, Sept. 29, of works portraying the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The 82-piece collection, titled “Relatos Artísticos de la Conquista” (“Artist Tales of the Conquest”), presents different perspectives and artistic interpretations on the fall of the Mexica (Aztec) civilization of Tenochtitlán from the 16th, 17th
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A 1,500-piece exhibition of Mexican history titled “La Grandeza de México” (“The Grandeur of Mexico”) was inaugurated on Monday, Sept. 27, by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The exhibit, which celebrates 200 years of the consummation of the country’s independence, a date commemorated that same day with parades and a gala reenactment of the
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By VAYUNAMU BAWA On Friday, Oct.1, U.S. photographer and resident artist Robert Rausch will present his first solo exhibition in Mexico City. The exhibit, titled “Repeating Dream,” is a collection of abstract self-portraits with a mystical surrealism based on a dream he said he had years ago. The photos involve interpretations of that dream, with images of the artist sinking
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