I spent much of the second week of February thinking about infrastructure. What prompted this fixation, during this year’s Semana del Arte (Art Week) a catchall name for the scores of gallery openings, museum shows, parties, and satellite fairs that have sprung up around Mexico City’s annual Zona Maco art fair since it was founded two decades ago? Initially, at least, it was a tour that a small group of us took on that Wednesday with the artist Gabriel Orozco. The itinerary followed an ongoing public project the artist undertook in 2018 under the auspices of the federal government (led by beloved populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or “AMLO”). Its aim was to revitalize the city’s “green lungs,” the Bosque de Chapultepec: cultural centers, expanded gardens, a pedestrian bridge extending from one end to the other, even a new cable car line integrating the park’s four sections and the city beyond it. To date, the project has apparently created around fifty th
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18:30 | Lima, Jul. 29. Several landmarks around the world lit up with the colors of the Peruvian flag as part of the celebrations marking the Bicentennial of the country s independence.
In Canada, the Niagara Waterfalls and the CN Tower displayed red and white lighting at night.
A similar spectacle was observed at the Bolivar Palace, the Capital Bank Tower, and the Cathedral in Old Panama, which are emblematic places in Panamanian territory.
In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Obelisk, the Monumental Tower, the Women s Bridge, and the Power Station of Art lit up in red and white.
The same lighting was observed in Santo Domingo the capital of Dominican Republic as well as at buildings of the Brazilian Federal Senate.
18:30 | Lima, Jul. 29. Several landmarks around the world lit up with the colors of the Peruvian flag as part of the celebrations marking the Bicentennial of the country s independence.
In Canada, the Niagara Waterfalls and the CN Tower displayed red and white lighting at night.
A similar spectacle was observed at the Bolivar Palace, the Capital Bank Tower, and the Cathedral in Old Panama, which are emblematic places in Panamanian territory.
In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Obelisk, the Monumental Tower, the Women s Bridge, and the Power Station of Art lit up in red and white.
The same lighting was observed in Santo Domingo the capital of Dominican Republic as well as at buildings of the Brazilian Federal Senate.