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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 60 percent of Mexico’s original languages are at risk of disappearing due to the government’s disinterest in defending them, globalization and the lack of a budget to protect cultural heritage and linguistics, a group of representatives of indigenous organizations warned Monday, Feb. 14. Of the more than 7,000 languages currently spoken worldwide, half
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican composer Rubén Fuentes Gasson, best known for his popular songs “La Bikina” and “El Son de la Negra,” died Saturday, Feb. 5, in hospital at age 95, from natural causes. Over his seven-decade career, Fuentes Gasson recorded more than 300 songs, according to the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico (SACM). A
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Who do most Mexicans trust? It’s doubtful that if you threw the question out to a random group of Mexicans that anyone would even guess the correct answer. But a fascinating study with a significantly large sample group is conducted every eight to 10 years by a nonsectarian organization called the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If the thought of nighttime excursions to the cemetery, public altars to the dead on practically every street corner and sugar skulls with your name written on them in icing gives you the creeps, Mexico is probably the wrong place for you to be this time of year. But if the reaffirmation of life through the celebration
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By KELIN DILLON After recent adjustments, members of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies will now be allowed to receive more than 234,000 pesos per month in stipends without paying taxes, triple their mensual salary and standing in stark contrast to the funding decrease of the nation’s cultural and scientific sectors. Some 330 deputies receive paid airplane tickets to travel across
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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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