Bellas Artes Mexico City
I have rarely seen a more elaborate, beautiful building than the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Construction started in 1904, but the revolution and the soft soil caused decades of delay. It was Mexican architect Federico Mariscal who finally completed the building in 1934. The exterior is Neoclassical and Art Nouveau, while the interior is amazing Art Deco. Even […] Read More
Dolores Olmeda
On my hunt to see, if possible, all Frida Kahlo paintings in Mexico City, I do discover, by default, Diego Rivera, her husband. Their lives were so intertwined, it is impossible to discover one without the other. So far though, I had not had that much interest for Rivera’s work. I had seen a few […] Read More
ArtMex
Mexico City has an overload of Museums, more than 150! Of every kind. The locals pride themselves that no other city on earth has more museums that Mexico City. And I am inclined to agree. I have a huge list of museums to go to: Modern art, contemporary art, photography, print, water colors, mining, the […] Read More
Ancient times
Visiting Mexico is like taking a crash course in (meso-) American history. Two days after visiting Teotihuacán, we went to the fabulous, enormous Museo Nacional de Antropología. It is simply too big to be visited in one day. So we focussed on the main sections, the Aztecs, the Maya and the pyramids of Teotihuacán. I won’t even […] Read More
Viva la vida
Frida Kahlo is probably the reason I am in Mexico City right now. I first heard about her in 1991. She was mentioned in an interview that Madonna gave to a magazine in her Los Angeles home. The article described a painting that was hanging in one room, of a Mexican painter I had never heard […] Read More
Teotihuacán
Renato and I got up shortly past 6 o’clock in the morning, to get to Avis when they opened, rent a car and drive to the airport. We collected Lisa and Dennis who arrived on the night flight from San Francisco, and drove off to Teotihuacán. Teotihuacán was a pre-Columbian, Meso-american city located in the Valley of Mexico, some 50 […] Read More
Guten Tag, Ramon
For a German in Mexico, I had to see that movie everybody was talking about: Guten Tag, Ramon. Hence I took Renato to the cinema on wednesday night. Of course, I had forgotten that much of the movie would be in Spanish, and that, unlike in Brussels, there would be no subtitles for that part. […] Read More
World Press Photo Award 2014
I love photography. You might have noticed with the number of pictures I take an put on the blog on some days. One of my yearly highlights is the World Press Photo Award. World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization from Amsterdam, that holds the world’s largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. A jury selects the World Press Photo […] Read More
Sinking city
Going to the Zocalo, the main square of Mexico City on a Sunday was not the best of ideas. It was crowded. I wanted to visit the Cathedral of Mexico City, one of the biggest in the world, but of course it was partially closed, due to the Sunday mass. Fair enough, I got a good […] Read More
Castillo de Chapultepec
I woke up early in order to meet Jimena. I met here during a dinner at my friend Ignacio’s place in Santiago, back in december. She’s a Portuguese teacher, also learns German, and a traveller like me. We met up at the Auditorio Nacional, and first went for breakfast in the beautiful neighborhood of Polanco. She […] Read More