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 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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An auction of 17 alleged pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts was cancelled just hours before it was slated to be held on Thursday, Sept. 16, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Sunday, Sept. 19. The auction, which had been organized by the internet sales site Casa Bertolami Fine Arts in Rome was halted
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Hyatt House Santa Fe, an extended-stay hotel linked through a overhead bridge to the ABC Medical Center’s Santa Fe, is marking its >fourth anniversary with a Huichol (or Wixárika) art exhibition. The exhibit, which will remain on display through Oct. 8, features 40 paintings and sculptures crafted by indigenous Huichol artists with beads
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s renowned Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (OSM) will open its 2021 summer season on Saturday, July 3, and for the first time the concerts will be streamed live on the internet. The season will include seven programs under the artistic direction of conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, with works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The El Carmen Museum (Museo de El Carmen) in the south of Mexico City reopened to the public on Saturday, May 22, under strict covid-19 safety protocols. The museum is housed in an old Catholic monetary built by Fray Andrés de San Miguel, an illustrious leader of the Carmelite order and heir to the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of an ongoing outreach program for foreign diplomats accredited in Mexico, Ambassador Mireya Téran organized a private tour of Mexico City’s Folk Art Museum (MAP) on Monday, May 17. The tour was offered in both Spanish and English to the wives of ambassadors and other foreign diplomats, and was conducted under strict covid-19 sanitation protocols.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of a broader commemoration of 75 years of bilateral diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Mexico, the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City is sponsoring a 26-piece exhibit of watch and clock designs at the Franz Mayer Museum. The exhibit, titled “Design around the Clock,” presents pieces of watchmaking made between 2015 and 2020.
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