PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexico City Museum, a subsidiary of the capital’s Culture Secretariat focusing on modern art, is due to open three new exhibitions on Saturday, June 18. All three exhibits — “Lavender City, Queer Art Biennial,” “Cycles” and “Origins”– are being presented within the framework of Mexico City’s Month of Diversity celebrations and showcase art related to or
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Museum of Photographic Archives (MAF) on Friday, May 13, opened an exhibit of works by the late French-Hungarian photographer Nadja Massün, who personally prepared the montage before passing away a few days before its opening. The exhibition contains 50 images of indigenous communities in Mexico and abroad taken by Massün over a 20-year
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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 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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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … The Presidente InterContinental Polanco Hotel is paying homage to Francisco Toledo, with a Día de Muertos altar in its lobby…
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A new exhibit titled “Tres por Tres, Afromexicanos en Guerrero, Veracruz y Coahuila” (¨Three-by-Three: Afro-Mexicans in Guerrero, Veracruz and Coahuila”) is slated to open on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Tlaxcala Regional Museum. The exhibit, composed of 18 photographs by three different photographers, shows how this marginalized community in Mexico has fought for its
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park opened an exhibition on pre-Columbian Gulf of Mexico cultures on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibit, composed of 1,354 pieces, covers a variety of pre-Hispanic societies, from 1600 B.C. up until the 1518 Spanish Conquest, when it is believed that tat least 20 distinct cultures existed
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Peruvian Embassy in Mexico is asking members of the local Peruvian community to submit works of art for a collective exhibit that will be called “Huellas y Sueños de Libertad” (“Traces and Dreams of Freedom”), with pieces that reflect the trials and accomplishments of Peruvian women. The approved works will be presented at Mexico City’s
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