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Do or don’t do

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , on January 3, 2014| 4 Comments »

In 2014, don’t…

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or do, what feels good.

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(In Oaxaca, on Berriozábal at the corner of Reforma.)

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Art is the tree of life

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, Science & Nature, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 7, 2013| 4 Comments »

More from the Hecho en Oaxaca exhibit…

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The courtyard at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO)…

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Art is the tree of life.  — William Blake


					
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Waiting…

					

					Posted in Creativity, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, Music, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , ,  on August 21, 2013|
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Another wall, courtesy of the Hecho en Oaxaca urban art project of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO).  It reminds me of the John Mayer song,


Waiting on the World To Change


Me and all my friends 

We’re all misunderstood 

They say we stand for nothing and 

There’s no way we ever could


Now we see everything that’s going wrong 

With the world and those who lead it 

We just feel like we don’t have the means 

To rise above and beat it 


Wall art of boy sitting


So we keep waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 

We keep on waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 




It’s hard to beat the system 

When we’re standing at a distance 

So we keep waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 




Now if we had the power 

To bring our neighbors home from war 

They would have never missed a Christmas 

No more ribbons on their door 

And when you trust your television 

What you get is what you got 

Cause when they own the information, oh 

They can bend it all they want 




That’s why we’re waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 

We keep on waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 




It’s not that we don’t care, 

We just know that the fight ain’t fair 

So we keep on waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 




And we’re still waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 

We keep on waiting waiting on the world to change 

One day our generation 

Is gonna rule the population 

So we keep on waiting 

Waiting on the world to change 




We keep on waiting 

Waiting on the world to change


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But, then again, maybe he’s waiting to join the struggle to make the change…

					
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Juan Alcázar Méndez, RIP

					

					Posted in Creativity, Culture, Exhibitions, People, tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,  on February 8, 2013|
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Oaxaca is mourning the loss of painter, Juan Alcázar Méndez, who succumbed to complications related to diabetes yesterday.


Juan Alcázar Méndez.  Photo from Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Juan Alcázar Méndez. Photo from Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes


Alcázar was born in Guadalupe Etla, Oaxaca in 1955 and entered the School of Fine Arts at the University Benito Juarez of Oaxaca at the age of 13.   He became known for his unique magic realism style.


Painting from fundraising auction by the Oaxaca Lending Library, 2010.
Painting from fundraising auction by the Oaxaca Lending Library, 2010


He was the founder of the Taller Rufino Tamayo, el Taller de Gráfica en la Casa de la Cultura, and the Taller Libre de Gráfica Oaxaqueña.  He was also one of the artists exhibited in the  at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco in 2012.


"El Rapto" at the The Magic Surrealists of Oaxaca exhibition 2012, San Francisco, CA.
“El Rapto” from the The Magic Surrealists of Oaxaca exhibition 2012, San Francisco, CA.


RIP, Juan Alcázar Méndez.  You will be missed but your magic will live on.

					
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In the meantime, graffiti

					

					Posted in Creativity, Culture, Parks & Plazas, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , ,  on January 21, 2013|
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The packing begins — this is “big move” week.  In the meantime, a little more graffiti…


 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
  


… from under the fútbol (soccer) stadium.

					
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The feminine touch

					

					Posted in Creativity, Culture, Parks & Plazas, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,  on December 16, 2012|
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Yesterday was just what the doctor ordered.  On a long walk with best friend:  a quinceañera, Christmas piñatas, a wedding, chickens roasting, and fanciful graffiti under the fútbol (soccer) stadium… these with a decidedly feminine touch.  Love the incongruity!


 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
  


An interview with one of Oaxaca’s female graffiti artists, PINK, can be found here (in English and Spanish).

					
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Surreal in SF

					

					Posted in Creativity, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, People, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  on June 15, 2012|
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As hoped, I managed to make my way to the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco for .  It’s the exhibit (I mentioned a few days ago) that celebrates the Zapotec artists of Oaxaca from Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo to those they encouraged and influenced.


On the consulate’s ground floor the scene was a familiar one — signage and conversations en español; the eagle, serpent and green, white, and red of the Mexican flag prominently displayed; waiting room filled with patiently waiting people — a sliver of Mexico in San Francisco.  Climbing the two flights of stairs (elevator was broken) up to the third floor, a friend and I found the exhibit…


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According to the article, Oaxacan surrealism hits the SF Mexican consulate, the consulate’s cultural affairs attache, Marimar Suárez Peñalva, hopes the gallery and its exhibitions will offer Mexican expats an opportunity to connect with the creativity, not just the bureaucracy (my word), of their culture.  However, I don’t know how many of those waiting on the first floor make it up to the third floor; early in the afternoon, we had the gallery to ourselves.


And yes, works by Tamayo and Toledo are included, but I thought I’d feature some of the lesser known artists.  By the way, did you notice the name, Alejandro Santiago Ramírez?  This is the same Alejandro Santiago of the 2501 Migrantes sculptures that I’ve previously written about.

					
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