Many had protested Reyes’s appointment, calling for the project to involve Indigenous artists and incorporate their proposals.
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Criticism Grows Around Artist Chosen to Replace Mexico City’s Columbus Monument
“[We] find it inadmissible that Pedro Reyes, a male artist who does not identify as Indigenous, was selected to represent ‘the Indigenous woman,'” says the group.
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Activists Paint Names of Femicide Victims Outside of Mexico’s Presidential Palace
Ahead of a massive march for International Women’s Day, the palace was covered with names and messages like “Trans women are part of my struggle.”
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Please Remain Inside Your Vehicle While Viewing the Art
A drive-through exhibition in a commercial parking lot in Mexico City brings together over 30 works by more than 20 contemporary artists.
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Unpaid Mexican Cultural Workers Reproach Museums With Biting Memes
Employees of Mexico’s public museums and theaters are striking to protest lack of wages, and remixing famous portraits to denounce the ongoing exploitation of cultural labor.
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Feminists Take Over Federal Building in Mexico City and Use Painting as a Weapon
In protest of femicide, the artists painted over portraits of all-male historical figures hanging in the National Human Rights Commission.
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A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence, Created by 600 Women Around the World
The moving results will soon be on view in a virtual gallery by California’s Social and Public Art Resource Center.
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In Mexico City, Art Collective Paints Names of Femicide Victims on Streets
The names, painted on International Women’s Day, were scrubbed away around 24 hours later.
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Art Critic Destroys $20K Glass Sculpture at Zona Maco
The glass work shattered to pieces “as though it had heard my commentary and sensed what I thought about it,” according to Mexican art critic Avelina Lésper.
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Taking in Local Projects at Zona Maco, Latin America’s Largest Art Fair
Even with art on view from dozens of countries, I found myself most drawn to work from local Mexican artists and spaces.
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Facing Delayed Wages, Non-Unionized Workers of Mexico City’s Institute of Fine Arts Stage Protest
A group of around 40 employees quietly entered the Palace of Fine Arts during an event. They silently held up their placards as many in the audience cheered and yelled “contrato digno” — a call for “dignified contracts.”
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Claiming Months of No Payment, Workers at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts Demand Wages
One anonymous employee says it worries him that he has not been paid for six months, despite continuing to do his job and sometimes working late nights.