Tag: Mexico

  • Mariana Castillo Deball – interview: ‘History belongs to everyone’

    Castillo Deball discusses her interest in history and how artefacts and their re-creations are viewed, and talks about Roman Rubbish, her installation at the London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, which takes as its starting point the 14,000 artefacts discovered at the…

  • Emilio Vedova: Documenta 7

    He was one of the most influential Italian abstract artists of his time, and the raw energy of Vedova’s work comes across in this show, which includes five monumental canvases first shown together at 1982’s Documenta

  • Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-45

    Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it

  • Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up

    This exhibition offers a lesson in why you shouldn’t feed popular morbid curiosity at the expense of respect for the person behind the legend. Nevertheless, Frida Kahlo’s paintings still shine out from amid the costumes, prosthetics and pill packets

  • Aztecs at the Royal Academy

    Royal Academy, London. Until 11 April 2003. Martin-Gropius-Bar, Berlin, 17 May – 10 August 2003. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 26 September 2003 – 11 January 2004.