Museo Dolores Olmedo
Tranquillity in the Big City
You can travel thirty-two kilometers from the zocalo (town square) to the quaint canals of Xochimilco and still be in Mexico City. Just short of this is a retreat, the sixteenth century monastery/hacienda/Museo Dolores Olmedo, home to the largest private collection of original Diego Rivera paintings, Frida Kahlo works and the largest private collection of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
November 2009
Nov 1, Tercer Festival de Playa Larga, Zihuatanejo, Guerrero. With pro volleyball exhibitions, live music, traditional seafood dishes, and equestrian events. Nov 1-14, Christmas Bread Fair, Chignahuapan, Puebla,. Beautifully shaped loaves, including the famous pan de hilo, which is made into little animal forms to decorate the statues of the Virgin on Candlemas, are for...
