Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Two Mexican pop stars
Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade went retro for their latest releases—in part as a reaction against the grim headlines often seen as defining their country in the present.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Visitan más de 80 mil personas muestra de Botero
Muy popular.
Más de 80 mil personas han visitado la exposición "Fernando Botero: Una celebración", en el Palacio de Bellas Artes, de la capital mexicana, la cual abrió sus puertas al público el pasado 29 de marzo, y que reúne 117 piezas de uno de los artistas colombianos de mayor proyección mundial.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Google Art Project
A story in El Universal lead me to this: Google exhibirá en línea más de 30 mil obras de arte. Subtitled En Art Project participan 151 museos de 40 países, entre ellos México, España y Argentina. El programa optimiza la consulta, la riqueza y diversidad de las obras presentadas.
Cada museo o institución asociada decide y elige qué obras quiere dejar para su libre consulta en Art Project. (Foto: Archivo EL UNIVERSAL)
Each participating museum or institution will be able to decide which works of art it wishes to have a prt in the Project.
Más de 30 mil obras de arte de 151 museos de 40 países, entre ellos España, México, Argentina, Colombia y Perú, serán accesibles a partir de ahora por internet dentro del programa "Art Project", que hoy presentó Google en el Museo de Orsay de París.
Over 30 thousand art works from 151 museums from 40 countries, among them Spain, Mexico, Argentina Colombia and Peru will be accessible online beginning now, in the Project, which Google presented today in the Orsay Museum, in Paris.
Cada museo o institución asociada decide y elige qué obras quiere dejar para su libre consulta en Art Project. (Foto: Archivo EL UNIVERSAL)
Each participating museum or institution will be able to decide which works of art it wishes to have a prt in the Project.
Más de 30 mil obras de arte de 151 museos de 40 países, entre ellos España, México, Argentina, Colombia y Perú, serán accesibles a partir de ahora por internet dentro del programa "Art Project", que hoy presentó Google en el Museo de Orsay de París.
Over 30 thousand art works from 151 museums from 40 countries, among them Spain, Mexico, Argentina Colombia and Peru will be accessible online beginning now, in the Project, which Google presented today in the Orsay Museum, in Paris.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Slim museum
The world's richest man Carlos Slim inaugurated a massive museum in Mexico City on Tuesday to house his eclectic collection of art ranging from pre-Hispanic pieces to sculptures by French masters. Located in the heart of one of the capital's poshest residential areas, the Soumaya museum -- named after Slim's late wife -- will host some 60,000 pieces in six exhibit rooms, making it one of the biggest in Latin America. The museum will be home to one of the world's most important collections of Auguste Rodin's sculptures and also prominently displays works by Mexican muralists Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera. Slim plans to build a huge development anchored by the museum that will include offices, apartments and shops with a price tag of $750 million for the first phase of construction.
Quite a fascinating story. Carlos Slim is reported to have a greater wealth than Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, though of course that is all dependent on market value, which is volatile. Nonetheless, he's rich, very rich. And this is a development that surprises me: I did not see him having this interest. I recall reading a story several years ago, in which he complained of his children running up a $500 monthly phone bill, which struck as a bunch of mierda. He is a ruthless businessman who has magnificent connections, and has exploited such to gain a foothold in key industries; he bought Telmex for centavos on the peso, and rode that wave to fabulous wealth.
Nonetheless, for him to open up this museum is impressive. Sure, it's a public relations stunt. Still, his museum will not be charging admission. Two weekends ago we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the admission charge was $20 a person.
Quite a fascinating story. Carlos Slim is reported to have a greater wealth than Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, though of course that is all dependent on market value, which is volatile. Nonetheless, he's rich, very rich. And this is a development that surprises me: I did not see him having this interest. I recall reading a story several years ago, in which he complained of his children running up a $500 monthly phone bill, which struck as a bunch of mierda. He is a ruthless businessman who has magnificent connections, and has exploited such to gain a foothold in key industries; he bought Telmex for centavos on the peso, and rode that wave to fabulous wealth.
Nonetheless, for him to open up this museum is impressive. Sure, it's a public relations stunt. Still, his museum will not be charging admission. Two weekends ago we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the admission charge was $20 a person.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Tales from the field hit the road
As the Mexican-immigrant workers called braceros age, a touring exhibit tells their stories
Slideshow
SAN JOSE, Calif.—During World War II, facing a national labor shortage, the U.S. government turned to Mexico. It recruited about two million Mexican laborers to work on farms on in 29 U.S. states, helping to plant crops and pick cotton. The workers were known as braceros, a term derived from the Spanish word for "arm." Many of the braceros settled in the U.S., marrying and raising families. Now in their 70s and 80s, they are gradually dying off—advocates estimate that more than half of all braceros have passed away—and few Americans know their stories.
To ensure that those memories remain alive, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and a consortium of universities embarked five years ago on a project to record the oral histories of braceros, conducting interviews with surviving members of the program around the country. Nearly 1,000 interviews have been digitally recorded and uploaded onto a website, www.braceroarchive.org. An exhibit called "Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964," based on the interviews and featuring documents, photographs and artifacts from that period, is now touring the U.S. It will open at the Museo Alameda in San Antonio later this month.
Slideshow
SAN JOSE, Calif.—During World War II, facing a national labor shortage, the U.S. government turned to Mexico. It recruited about two million Mexican laborers to work on farms on in 29 U.S. states, helping to plant crops and pick cotton. The workers were known as braceros, a term derived from the Spanish word for "arm." Many of the braceros settled in the U.S., marrying and raising families. Now in their 70s and 80s, they are gradually dying off—advocates estimate that more than half of all braceros have passed away—and few Americans know their stories.
To ensure that those memories remain alive, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and a consortium of universities embarked five years ago on a project to record the oral histories of braceros, conducting interviews with surviving members of the program around the country. Nearly 1,000 interviews have been digitally recorded and uploaded onto a website, www.braceroarchive.org. An exhibit called "Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964," based on the interviews and featuring documents, photographs and artifacts from that period, is now touring the U.S. It will open at the Museo Alameda in San Antonio later this month.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Orozco exposición
ABRE MUESTRA DE OROZCO - (Foto: EFE)
Más de 340 piezas componen la magna exposición del muralista mexicano José Clemente Orozco, que fue inaugurada en el Instituto Cultural Cabañas en Guadalajara | Ver notaMuestra de José Clemente Orozco llega a JaliscoLa exposición está compuesta de 345 dibujos, acuarelas, gráficos, pinturas, tintas, recortes de periódicos y reproducciones fotográficas de su obra dentro y fuera de México |
Más de 340 piezas componen la magna exposición del muralista mexicano José Clemente Orozco, que fue inaugurada en el Instituto Cultural Cabañas en Guadalajara, capital del occidental estado de Jalisco.
Esta es "la más grande retrospectiva" de la obra del artista jalisciense que se presenta en México en las últimas tres décadas, dijo la directora del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), Teresa Vicencio.
La exposición "José Clemente Orozco pintura y verdad" está compuesta de 345 dibujos, acuarelas, gráficos, pinturas, tintas, recortes de periódicos y reproducciones fotográficas de su obra dentro y fuera de México.
Las piezas que la componen, distribuidas en 19 salas de manera cronológica, estarán expuestas hasta el próximo 31 de julio.
Por primera vez en la historia serán exhibidos los 150 dibujos preparatorios que el artista hizo para cada uno de sus murales en México y Estados Unidos.
En ellos se muestra la evolución de Orozco como artista plástico desde sus inicios como caricaturista en diarios del país, su etapa como pintor de caballete hasta su trabajo como muralista, afirmó el curador de la exposición, Miguel Cervantes.
"Quisimos reunir la obra de Orozco de una manera lo más panorámica posible y mostrar que tanto los dibujos de sus inicios como sus pinturas están a la altura de Picasso, Rembrandt, Matisse o Goya", señaló el experto.
Durante la investigación que duró dos años, los curadores registraron más de mil 600 obras de Orozco diseminadas en suelo mexicano y estadounidense.
La obra exhibida pertenece a coleccionistas mexicanos y extranjeros, a la colección de la familia del pintor, a museos mexicanos, así como de la Biblioteca Baker en New Hampshire y el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, en Estados Unidos.
Para esta exposición, la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de Jalisco y el Fondo de Cultura Económica publicaron un catálogo de 600 páginas de las obras expuestas.
Además se editó la antología crítica "La zarza revivida. José Clemente Orozco a contraluz" con 60 textos recopilados desde 1913 de plumas como José Juan Tablada y Octavio Paz que constituye "la primera edición con tal cantidad de ensayos", dijo Cervantes.
Luego de su paso por el Hospicio Cabañas, la exposición será trasladada al Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, en Ciudad de México.
Exhibición Por primera vez en la historia serán exhibidos los 150 dibujos preparatorios que el artista hizo para cada uno de sus murales en México y Estados Unidos (Foto: EFE )
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