Mexico City dares you to try and take it all in. From the Torre Latinoamericana I swear that this is the view that made me fall in love with the place where I live. I know that for some...
Museo de Arte Popular
I’m adding the MAP to my list of museums you can see under an hour and not want to kill yourself. There are four rooms, Art and the Sacred, The Essence of Art, Art in the everyday, and the...
Happy Labor Day
This morning we saw these four in the Río de Janiero park. Some members of a band called the Oaxaca brothers within a quartet that they just formed this morning. If you can get past the kid yelling at...
Mornings in the Medellín
I can’t think of any U.S. market like the ones in Mexico except Pike Place with its stands selling trinkets and fish mongers putting on a show for the tourists. I always say that the U.S. is so obsessed...
Tickling the Ivories (well, wood) with Toca Conmigo
At four am on random mornings the past week or so the neighbors of Rio de Jainero Plaza have been treated to a piano recital outside their bedroom windows. Not everyone appreciates this phantom of the opera performance, but...
Upcoming April Events in Mexico City
Here are just a few upcoming events in April as I build my regular calendar, click on the comments above to add more to my list. Outdoor Movies all month @ the Cineteca Nacional April 1 to 6 –...
Noche de Museos at El Chopo
I must once again wax poetic about Noche de Museos here in Mexico City. Like lots of similar programs around the world,it’s a monthly event when museums around the city stay open late, offer free or discounted entry, guided...
Fundación Jumex in Polanco
I finally made it to the Jumex Foundation Museum over the weekend and while I still think that the building is ugly as sin from the outside, the curation and interior design of the space rocks. James Lee Byars:...
Taller Tlamaxcalli’s Toybox
Toys have no nationality, no origin, according to Álvaro Santillán. Children invented toys. That being said, Álvaro seems to have a beginning, a story, a little detail of origin for every item in the Tlamaxcalli toy workshop. the diversity...
A Very Public Break-up at the MODO
You know how that old saying goes “One man’s break-up is another man’s art.” Well maybe that’s not the exact phrasing but it’s appropriate for the MODO‘s new exhibit, part of a traveling break-up show from Croatia. Officially called...