Tag: "art"
Video: Gallery takes graffiti off the streets
“Cavemen Did It First” is the first permanent art space in the city dedicated exclusively to graffiti.
Mexico City writer inspires Saldamando in California
Artist Shizu Saldamando was inspired by Mexico City-based writer Daniel Hernandez.
Video: Gabriel Orozco opens solo show in Mexico City
Gabriel Orozco, the Mexican contemporary artist, has opened his first solo show in three years in Mexico City. Crowds turned up last month to the unveiling at the Kurimanzutto art gallery despite the H1N1 flu alert alarming the city at the time.
Video: Cars inspire Mexican artist’s show with a green message
Mexico visual artist Betsabee Romero used cars to create installations for “A vuelta de rueda (driving slowly),” an outdoor exhibition in downtown Mexico City that has a decidedly green feel to it.
Video: Photographer takes Mexico City’s portrait
A lion cub, a naked girl and a Mexican pop star were just some of the guests at the Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood on a night in late January. They and a healthy share of Mexico’s young hipsters were there for the opening of New York-based photographer Noah Sheldon’s portrait studio project.
Mexico's missing children inspire artist
Lieberman spent more than three years working on 100 drawings that are intricate copies of often bad-quality newspaper photographs of missing children, taken from the Mexican newspaper Metro.
David LaChapelle makes Mexican debut
David LaChapelle, the surrealist photographer, launched his first-ever show in Mexico City last night in a media scrum that resembled one of his chaotic images.
Photography show portrays a day in Mexico's Chapultepec Park
A photography exhibition on the fence of Mexico City’s massive Chapultepec Park reflects the importance of the public space in the lives of Mexicans.
Kurimanzutto opens doors to new art gallery in Mexico City
The beautiful people were out in force on Saturday afternoon in Mexico City for the opening of the new Kurimanzutto contemporary art gallery in the San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood.
Video: Graffiti artist hits Mexico City – with knitting
Guerrilla-knitter Magda Sayeg of KnittaPlease.com hit the streets of Mexico City to take on her biggest challenge yet. It was her task to cover an entire bus with knitting, as is her style, and we caught up with her just as she was completing her task.
Guerrilla knitting attacks Mexico City
Magda Seyeg is a Texan artist who tags – but not with graffiti. She and her collective of guerilla knitters – who you can touch base with at KnittaPlease.com – place knitted stuff on door handles, park benches, statues, lamp posts and virtually anything else standing in the street.
In Photos: Police torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution
Coyoacan is a sleepy (at least for Mexico City), leafy and green middle class suburb in the south of Distrito Federal, home to many of the capital’s intellectuals and politicians. Strolling along one its main drags – Avenida Mexico – is some of DF’s graffiti.
Leonora Carrington on Mexico City's Paseo de Reforma
Leonora Carrington is a British surrealist artist from Lancashire who left Europe during the Second World War, on the run from the Nazis.
She finally settled in Mexico, and has produced an impressive body of work, some of which is currently on display on one of Mexico’s main thoroughfares – Paseo de Reforma.
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