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 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 RICH GRANT The Italians are many wonderful things – but slow, safe and sane drivers, they are not. Italian highways resemble race tracks more than roads, and cars can be expensive and a hassle in the country’s ancient, pedestrian-oriented cities. The solution is to tour Italy by train. All the grand stops of northern Italy are two to three
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