Popular Art Museum to Present New Collection of Indigenous Treasures
The collection donated to the MAP is composed most of huipils and other textiles, but also includes several early Toltec and Aztec artifacts
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Estanquillo Museum Opens Exhibit of Early Avant-Garde Photos
García Smarth was born in 1892 and began his career as a photographer in 1910
Read moreThe Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
Read moreIndigenous Communities Photo Exhibit by French-Hungarian Opens
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
Read moreMexico’s New Felipe Ángeles Airport Set to Begin Operations
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new, three-runway Felipe Ángeles International Airport is set to open on Monday, March 21, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador AMLO) doing the ribbon-cutting honors. The airport, one of AMLO’s key vanity megaprojects, will have four confirmed carriers operating, the Mexican lines, Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico, plus the Venezuelan carrier Conviasa, which
Read moreWalking through a Winter Selfie Land
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Imagine a museum dedicated to the most important person in your life, YOU! Yes, it is time to get ready for your own personal photo op, set in a winter wonder-landscape with peppermint candy canes, sugarplum fairies, magical elves and even a giant Christmas unicorn. Mexico City’s very first pop-up Selfie Museum is set to open on
Read moreMexican Senate Passes Income Law, Sends to Executive
By KELIN DILLON Early in the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Senate approved the country’s new Income Package for 2022 in a 66 to 44 vote, without making any changes to the initiative. Though opposition parties presented more than 400 potential issues with the initiative, majority senators from the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) rejected their reservations one-by-one. The
Read moreFranz Mayer Museum Opens Exhibit of Spanish Conquest
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
Read moreWellington, New Zealand’s Cool Capital City
By RICH GRANT WELLINGTON – The Lonely Planet travel guide books once called Wellington the “coolest capital city in the world,” an accolade the town loved so much, they made it their official slogan. And why not? New Zealand’s capital city is a pretty cool place, and the 300,000 people who live here know it. More than a quarter of
Read moreDiplomats Visit Former Presidential Mansion
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A group of foreign diplomats accredited in Mexico and their spouses were given a private tour of the former presidential palace, Los Pinos, on Monday, May 29, in a special visit organized by Mexican Ambassador and former Director General of Protocol for the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) Amanda Mireya Terán Munguía. The 60-hectare property (an area 14
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