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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the third straight year, the International Modern Dance Festival opened in Mexico City on Thursday, Aug. 2. The festival,, which will run through Aug. 12, includes the participation of 54 dance companies from a total of 26 counties. The performances are being presented in various locations throughout the city, including the Faros de Oriente, Tláhuac,
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Scientific and archeological research has resumed at the pre-Hispanic Maya archeological site Yaxchilán, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, according to sources at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The site, first explored by English archeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay at the start of the 20th century, is located next to the Usumacinta River.
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO For the 19th year straight, San Miguel de Allende (SMA) entrepreneur and benefactor Luis Ferro de la Sota has organized the Universal Brotherhood Convivium, a weeklong arts festival at the end of May with members of the Universal Brotherhood Coexistence group. Ferro de la Sota selected the month of May based on the simple fact that SMA,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The American Benevolent Society (ABS) will host a meeting and book signing with the distinguished National Geographic author Erik Vance in its Caza Libros used bookstore on Friday, April 13, at 4 p.m. Vance, who is based partly in Mexico and partly in California, will discuss his book “Suggestible You,” which explores
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The monumental pyramids and breathtaking temples of the ancient Maya culture in Mexico’s southeastern regions and Yucatan Peninsula have long dominated the interest and attention of archeologists from around the globe. But while majestically imposing sites like Chichén Itza and Tulum have been studied by anthropologists and historians practically since the first European colonists set foot in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The 34th edition of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico Festival (FCH) got underway over the weekend, with a performance on Friday, March 2, of Gioachino Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” by the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata at the Templo de Santo Domingo and a simultaneous display of the history of dance and music from traditional folklore sounds to
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