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
At once historic and modern, quaint and dashingly cosmopolitan, Mexico’s capital city is the setting for glorious autumn fashion – captured everywhere from the canals of Xochimilco to the spires of the Centro Histórico.
Ben Savage, who played Cory Matthews in the beloved ‘90s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” recently announced his intention to run for Congress. Savage, a Democrat, will be running for representative of California’s 30th District during the 2024 election, USA Today reported. It is about time that we see more individuals that millennials and Gen Z.