Author’s journey where coincidences sprout on the gears of fate The best time to go is from November to April, during the dry season. A trip to Mexico is essential for tourism lovers. Whether you are draw to the heart of Mayan culture, or its fantastic colonial cities, you will certainly not be disappointed. Of course, you will find that …
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Not only cartoonist, but also muralist, portraitist and landscape painter He began his artistic career by creating cartoons for publications for newspapers in Guadalajara and Mexico City, where his cartoons were also publish in La Sátira, Excélsior and El Universal. His first teacher influenced him in the creation of satirical cartoons, nudes and portraits. He is part of a generation …
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Expressions of art, between tropics’s utopia and complexities of the present Through sporting images and portraits of Mexican heroes, his work draws on visual sources concerning two nations. Born in 1964 in Mexico City, the Mexican photographer, painter and director Rubén Ortiz Torres https://visarts.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/rub%C3%A9n-ortiz-torres.html created, among other things, a video installation entitled Alien Toy, included in the 1997 show InSite in …
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Between destiny and free will, collecting what we have to live The body in which I was born, https://www.amazon.it/Body-Where-Was-Born/dp/1609807510 is a book in which Guadalupe Nettel https://www.elle.com/it/magazine/libri/a39329227/guadalupe-nettel-libri/ relives with the mind a succession of events inherent to her own youth, between Mexico and France, confronting some utopias of the 70s. In the pages of this novel by her, perhaps you …
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A photogenic musical composer in Hollywood Her name is among the ten Mexican composers who have left the most royalties. Born in Ciudad Guzmán in the summer of 1916, Consuelo Velázquez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIJZSs2gxdo very early began to demonstrate an aptitude for melody. In fact, at the age of four, her uncle had given her a small piano, from which she naturally …
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A worthwhile adventure into Mexican trip Barriga llena, corazón contento (full belly, happy heart). Remembering this Mexican way of saying, you can make the memory of your holiday more joyful. Its cuisine is a mix of pre-Hispanic and Spanish influences, but dishes have their own flavors and are made with local techniques. One of its main dishes is birria (goat …
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If you do not have wings yet and want to fly, go to Mexico. After our travel in Perù, http://meetingbenches.com/2019/03/between-incan-minimalism-and-spanish-baroque-traveling-in-peru-happier-than-a-cat-in-a-fish-market/, your basket of memories will be enriched with something new, this time going through Mexico. https://www.visitmexico.com/en/. Scent of capirotada and songs by Sofia Reyes, a good art book about the painter Alfredo Ramos Martinez and taste of taco omakase. In …
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Away from the academy, to paint scenes from ordinary life. For you Mexico City stay, we suggest hotel that features in the James Bond film Spectre. Crowned by a stained-glass canopy, the atrium is a fin de siècle fantasy of curved balconies, wrought-iron elevators and chirping birds in giant cages, Gran Hotel Ciudad De Mexico https://granhoteldelaciudaddemexico.com.mx/en/, flaunts the French art …
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