Lupita’s Quinceanera in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca: Culture and Tradition
You might call it a coming out party or a debut to society if you lived in the United States of America thirty years ago. Some of my southern women friends participated in debutante balls just before women’s liberation took hold. For me, growing up in the wild west San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, […]
Mascaras Mexicanas: Mexican Masks — Dances, Dieties, Identity
A new temporary special exhibition at the Palacio Nacional (National Palace) on the Zocalo in Mexico City features hundreds of hand-made masks from towns and villages throughout Mexico. This is the same building that houses Diego Rivera murals, so if you go there soon, don’t miss this. Enter on side street through security, go to […]
Peacocks and Xoloitzcuintle: Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum Garden
It’s not very common to get up close and personal with a peacock. Nor is it usual to come within a foot or two of the pre-Hispanic indigenous, Mexican hairless dog the Aztecs called xoloitzcuintle. Both are an integral part of the landscape at the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum in Mexico City that houses the […]
More About Mexico City: Museums
For the past week, before returning today to North Carolina for knee replacement surgery next week, I have been in Mexico City where some of the world’s best museums are found. I added on two days on my own before we started our fifth Looking for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Art History Study Tour […]