Mexico Abroad
Beyond the Labyrinth

Beyond the Labyrinth

Latin American Art and the FEMSA Collection


May 1-June 18, Beyond the Labyrinth: Latin American Art and the FEMSA Collection, Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. Featuring 50 works from renown 20th century Latin American artists, including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Wifredo Lam (Cuba) and Fernando Botero (Colombia), the exhibition is organized into six thematic sections that span...

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Olmec

Olmec

Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico


Apr 1- May 8, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, De Young Museum, San Francisco, Ca. Considered the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica and recognized as America’s oldest civilization, the people known today as the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium BC.  The Olmec are best known for...

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Transformation

Transformation

Juandres Vera and Fernando Villalvazo


Apr 1-22, Transformation, Juandres Vera and Fernando Villalvazo. P.J.S. Exhibitions 238 W. 14th, New York City, New York. P.J.S Exhibitions, an eclectic gallery on the cusp of New York’s Chelsea, West Village and Meatpacking District, presents Transformation, a collection of “mental concepts” from artists Juandrés Vera and Fernando Villalvazo. In this exhibit, Vera and Villalvazo...

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Weaving Diversity: Textiles from Oaxaca

Weaving Diversity: Textiles from Oaxaca

Oaxaca: Matsers of Folk Art


Mar 1- 19, Weaving Diversity: Textiles from Oaxaca, Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street, NW Washington D.C. The Mexican Cultural Institute gallery spaces are showing an extraordinary exhibition of textiles from the Textile Museum of Oaxaca. Representing three important collections from the Textile Museum of Oaxaca, the elaborate pieces on display will showcase historical indigenous...

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Frente a Frente

Frente a Frente

The Mexican People in Independence and Revolution, 1810 & 1910


Feb 1- Mar 15, Frente a Frente, The Mexican People in Independence and Revolution, 1810 &  1910, Exhibition Hall, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. This exhibit features rare books, prints, photographs, and manuscripts from the Benson Latin American Collection, commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of Mexican Independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution....

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Obsidian Mirror-Travels

Obsidian Mirror-Travels

Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology


Jan 1- Mar 27, Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology, Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. From the first moments of contact, Mexico’s indigenous civilizations evoked in their European conquerors an array of unsettling emotions ranging from fascination to fear. Eradicating populations, destroying monuments, suppressing native religions, and collecting and classifying...

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Olmec

Olmec

Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico


Dec 1, 2010–Jan 9, 2011, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. This is the first West Coast presentation of massive works and small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico’s earliest civilization, which began around 1400 BC and was centered in the Gulf Coast states...

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Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection


Dec 1- 18, Shattered Glass: Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection, Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Through the study of contemporary art and Mexican high modernist masterpieces in the collection of the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the curatorial team reexamines the artworks in a new context relating to the...

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Siqueiros Paisajista

Siqueiros Paisajista

Landscapes by David Alfaro Siqueiros


  Dec 1, 2010 – Jan 30, 2011, Siqueiros Paisajista/ Siqueiros: Landscape Painter, Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA. The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is proud to join the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals...

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Siqueiros in Los Angeles

Siqueiros in Los Angeles

Censorship Defied


Nov 2010–Jan 2011, Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied, The Autry National Center of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, Ca. Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros was one of the greatest muralists of the twentieth century. Revolutionary in technique, content, and social comment, his work established Los Angeles as a key center...

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Latitudes

Latitudes

Latin American Masters from the FEMSA Collection


Nov – Jan 17, Latitudes: Latin American Masters from the FEMSA Collection, Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, CA. Collaboration between the Bowers Museum, FEMSA, and the Mexican Consulate is on exhibition. Latitudes is a selection of paintings from leading Latin American beverage company FEMSA`s prestigious collection of more than 1,000 modern and...

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