By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After several years of absence in the Mexican market, the Louisiana Tourism Office announced Monday, May 9, that it has again hired a representative in Mexico City. “We have reviewed the statistics and behavior of the Mexican traveler in recent months, and we see a great opportunity in this market,” explained Louisiana Lieutenant Governor
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart), a subsidiary of the country’s Culture Secretariat, premiered on Thursday, April 28, an abstract, multimedia production of “The Szechuan School of Human Pain,” a powerful play based on the novel with the same name by Mexican-Peruvian author Mario Bellatin. Set in imperial China, the play, which includes
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE It seems like Mexico City and Paris are in a constant toe-to-toe competition to determine which city has the greatest number of museums. Independent of which is in first place, if you live in or are close to Mexico City, you know the great luxury of being in a city of museums. Mexico’s museums were
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, when it comes to designing sculptures, it’s all about the ball. That fact was made abundantly apparent in his new exhibit “What Goes Around, Comes Around,” which opened at Italy’s Vendramin Grimani Palace in Venice on Wednesday, April 20. Composed of 36 works, including paintings, sculptures and a 195-clay-sphere installation, the collection
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s third annual Cárcamo Music Festival will be held simultaneously in the National Center for the Arts (Cenart) and on the Tlaloc Fountain Plaza in Chapultepec Park on Saturday, April 23, and Sunday, April 24, starting at noon each day. The family-oriented festival, which is open to all free-of-charge, will include performances of tango
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Big top fans rejoice! Mexico’s own Atayde Brothers Circus, the last of the big three-ring spectaculars in the country, will be presenting six performances at the capital’s Esperanza Iris Theater from Thursday, April 21, through Sunday, 24 April. And while the sawdust, roasted peanuts and some of the traditional animal acts might not be
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The second installment of a four-part festival of art from India is set to open at Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) on Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10. The event will include a selection of exhibits of India art, seminars, music and dance performances, films, book presentations, yoga classes and a saree
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s El Carmen Museum, which for years has presented altars of the Virgin Mary’s sorrows during the Holy Week of Easter, but which has been closed for the last two years due to the covid-19 contingency, will reopen with a limited seasonal display to the public on Thursday, April 7. The exhibition, “The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico hosted a daylong celebration of the festival of Nowrūz, an ancient spring holiday, at Mexico City’s Lincoln Park on Saturday, March 19. The open-air celebration, which was hosted by Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov, his wife Kamala Talibova and their daughter Faray Talibli, included a performance of traditional Azeri dances by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Thursday, March 17, Mexico City’s Franz Mayer Museum opened a new exhibit of Chinese porcelain and decorative art that focuses on the creative trends of that country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The exhibition, composed of 189 works from the museum’s own collection and from pieces on loan from four private collections,
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