mexican art Archives

Sol Ceh Moo is First Woman to Win Indigenous Literature Award

Virginia IsaadDecember 10, 2019July 7, 2020

by Virginia IsaadDecember 10, 2019July 7, 202002681

During the awards ceremony at Mexico’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (November 30 to December 8), Maya writer Marisol “Sol” Ceh Moo became the first woman to receive the Indigenous Literature of the Americas Award. Since the 2013 inception of the...

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Largest Frida Kahlo Exhibit in 40 Years Happening in Chicago Next Year

Virginia IsaadNovember 26, 2019July 16, 2020

by Virginia IsaadNovember 26, 2019July 16, 202004993

Frida Kahlo’s work will always draw crowds and Chicago is not just hosting a new exhibition on her work next summer, they’re borrowing 26 original works from the Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City to display the largest collection of...

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Jessica Alba and Cassie Star in Clothing Brand’s Mexican-Themed Campaign

Virginia IsaadNovember 6, 2019July 13, 2020

by Virginia IsaadNovember 6, 2019July 13, 202001945

Clothing brand and retailer Opening Ceremony debuted its Spring 2020 collection and the lookbook, titled The Familia: A Portrait Series, featuring prominent Mexican creatives including actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba and singers Omar Apollo and Cassie. Shot by photographer Stefan...

Culture

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Come Alive in New Exhibit

Araceli CruzOctober 28, 2019July 26, 2020

by Araceli CruzOctober 28, 2019July 26, 202003924

The profound bond between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, which began years before they were married, continues long after their deaths. Yet these two enrapturing modernists never exhibited together when they were alive. The Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican...

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Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990’s Mexico

Yvette MontoyaNovember 14, 2017December 4, 2020

by Yvette MontoyaNovember 14, 2017December 4, 202003606

For Mexico the 90’s were tumultuous – it marked the rise of the drug cartels, the privatization of the public sector, the North American Trade Agreement, and open widespread government corruption. Artists were dealing with the loss of the utopian...

Culture

Mexican Modernism: A Brief History

Damaly GonzalezFebruary 1, 2017February 18, 2021

by Damaly GonzalezFebruary 1, 2017February 18, 202111696

Mexican Revolution Francisco Goitia: Zacatecas Landscape with Hanged Men I & II, both c1914. #franciscogoitia #mexicanart #deathart #landscapeart pic.twitter.com/3bxKp0ID9O — The Elegy Project (@elegyproject) December 5, 2017 The Philadelphia Museum of Art just closed one of the most monumental Mexican art...