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Mexico City

Posted inArt

A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence, Created by 600 Women Around the World

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino August 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The moving results will soon be on view in a virtual gallery by California’s Social and Public Art Resource Center.

Posted inNews

In Mexico City, Art Collective Paints Names of Femicide Victims on Streets

by Zoe Mendelson March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

The names, painted on International Women’s Day, were scrubbed away around 24 hours later.

Posted inIn Brief

Art Critic Destroys $20K Glass Sculpture at Zona Maco

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia February 10, 2020February 11, 2020

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.

Posted inArt

Taking in Local Projects at Zona Maco, Latin America’s Largest Art Fair

by Layla Fassa February 7, 2020

Even with art on view from dozens of countries, I found myself most drawn to work from local Mexican artists and spaces.

Posted inNews

Facing Delayed Wages, Non-Unionized Workers of Mexico City’s Institute of Fine Arts Stage Protest

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 20, 2019March 8, 2023

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.”

Posted inNews

Claiming Months of No Payment, Workers at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts Demand Wages

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 13, 2019December 16, 2019

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.

Posted inNews

Farmworker Unions and LGBTQ Activists Clash Over Nude Portrait of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 12, 2019December 13, 2019

At a Mexico City museum, farmworker unions demanded the painting of the Mexican Revolution leader be destroyed. Their protest escalated to a clash with LGBTQ activists, amounting to violence and use of homophobic slurs.

Posted inNews

In Mexico City, Widespread Protests About Women’s Rights Target a Monument and Museum

by Monica Castillo November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Dozens of breastfeeding mothers gathered at Mexico City’s Museum of Modern Art in protest of discriminatory regulations, while the Angel of Independence monument was vandalized with feminist graffiti and crocheted hearts.

Posted inNews

In Anti-Rape Demonstration, “Glitter” Protesters Vandalize Historic Mexican Monument

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 20, 2019

Residents in anguish over gender-based violence in Mexico City graffitied one of the capital’s most historic landmarks in an act of frustration against government officials.

Posted inArt

Making Art from Architecture in Mexico City

by Ana Karina Zatarain March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Artists often use whatever materials they can find, creating works that reflect on the socioeconomic realities of their surroundings.

Posted inArt

An Artist’s Artist Gets His Due in Mexico City

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 15, 2018

Timoney presents a kind of salon-style show, but all emerging from a single mind.

Hemiciclo a Juárez in Mexico City, where "Quiero un Presidente" will be read on June 30. (photo by Jarekt, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Adapting Zoe Leonard’s “I want a president” for Mexico’s Upcoming Election

by Lucia Hinojosa June 29, 2018June 29, 2018

Ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico, the poet Luis Felipe Fabre has adapted Leonard’s poem and a collective reading will take place in Mexico City on Saturday.

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