By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Colombian Ambassador to Mexico Patricia Eugenia Cárdenas Santamaría, in cooperation with the La Cometa Gallery in Bogota, inaugurated an exhibit of contemporary art from that South American country in the lobby of the Presidente InterContinental Hotel in Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Polanco on Tuesday, Feb. 5. The exhibit, titled “Tres Miradas del Arte Colombiano”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 4, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (one day early this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend or just a opportunity to get an early start on that spring cleaning you
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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 After two straight years of falloffs, the number of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico this year for their winter retreat increased by 144 percent, according to the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). In a statement issued by on Wednesday, Jan. 30, based on studies conducted in Michoacán and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) during
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite its swank address inside the upscale Artz Shopping Mall in Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Jardines de Pedregal – and the hefty prices that come with that locale – there is a distinctive downhome feel to the newly opened Negroni Artz restaurant. A glassed-in patio with simple wood and wicker chairs at graciously linened tables and a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra (OFCM), led by its artistic director Scott Yoo, presented its first Mexico city Government-sponsored concert of the year at the Templo de Santo Domingo church in downtown Mexico City on Saturday, Jan. 19. The standing-room-only concert consisted of a performance of Baroque music, including works by George Frideric Händel,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of the ongoing 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Guadalajara Regional Museum (MRG), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has organized an exhibit of pre-Hispanic Mexican sculptures of sensual human forms from the western Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco and Michoacán. The exhibit, titled “Semillas de vida:
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Cultured 18th century British gentlemen were known for their appreciation of Greco-Roman art, and more than a few of these refined art aficionados made their way to Italy to procure a classic piece of history or two for their own personal collections. (They seldom ventured into Greece because, at the time, it was under Ottoman rule.) Over
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By WILLIAM JACK SIBLEY For five years in the late 1970s, early 80s, I was employed as a “Spanish speaker” steward for the coolest (at the time) airline in the world – Braniff International. Braniff was famous for inaugurating “The End of the Plain Plane” in it’s attention-getting, revamped transformation designed by Madison Avenue whiz kid Mary Wells Lawrence, second
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF It’s an ideal setting for a Christmas pageant: the little colonial town of Tepotzotlán, just an hour northwest of Mexico City. Sometimes referred to as the capital of the uniquely Mexican Churrigueresque style of architecture, the 17th and early 18th century buildings of Tepotzotlán, with their gilded, flourished, curlicued and cherub-topped buildings, indeed offer
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