Some galleries suffered severe damage, others turned their spaces into relief centers, and the city’s biggest art fair came under fire for going ahead with its scheduled VIP opening the night of the quake.
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What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it’s both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.
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A Mexican Metalworker’s Colossal Jewelry for the Statue of Liberty
Ana Pellicer used traditional copper jewelry techniques from the Mexican state of Michoacan, then makes her pieces contemporary by playing with scale.
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A Major Art Symposium Goes Awry in Mexico City
In late July, a newspaper reported that the 14th edition of Mexico City’s revered SITAC contemporary art symposium had been cancelled, but it’s more complicated.
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US Artist Trolls Trump with Billboard in Mexico City
After being denied by US ad companies, Mitch O’Connell took his billboard depicting President Donald Trump as a sinewy alien to Mexico City, where it now prominently hangs.
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A Blind Artist Looks Back at Growing Up in the ’90s
In 2014, Manuel Solano lost his eyesight from an HIV-related infection. His new works treat that experience as the generative event for his art.
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Frida Kahlo or Tacos al Pastor? Mexico City Is Taking Suggestions for Municipal Emoji
The government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of an emoji package representing this megalopolis.
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An Artist Serves Up Food for Thought About Excessive Consumption
Raúl Ortega Ayala’s new exhibition at Proyectos Monclova includes a buffet based on a historical image of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center and a model of the Tower of Babel sculpted out of lard.
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Gabriel Orozco Has Given Up Making Art
The artist’s new installation in Mexico City, a functioning convenience store inside a gallery, peddles a false analogy between art and disposable commodities.
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On a Foggy Film Set, Karl Marx Sings “The Internationale”
The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz’s Jippies Asquerosos (“dirty hippies”) project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.
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How General Idea Got Specific to Confront the AIDS Crisis
A retrospective in Mexico City traces the Canadian trio’s evolution from Fluxus-inflected performance directives to twists on commercial objects and images directly addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia’s exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.