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This year, Mexico is celebrating both a centennial and a bicentennial. The push for Mexican independence began in 1810 - sparked by the famous El Grito, the cry of Father Hidalgo calling Mexicans to fight for freedom from Spain - while the Mexican Revolution began in 1910. KERA’s Jerome Weeks reports that North Texas museums and galleries are marking these with a wave of exhibitions and shows.
North Texans soon will be seeing a wide range of Mexican art and history - extending from stone carvings from 700 B.C to contemporary video.
Saturday, the Kimbell Art Museum opens Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, a major show on the art of the Maya, the ancient civilization that flourished in Mexico and Central America before the Spanish arrived. But September 16th is Mexican Independence Day, so the openings will peak next month. With Porfiriato to Revolution, for example, the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University is putting on display historic Mexican photographs and documents from 1876 to 1920. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, meanwhile, will devote all three of its gallery spaces to an installation and a new video by Dallas producer Quin Mathews - on the connections between religious art and current politics in Mexico.
This year, Mexico is celebrating both a centennial and a bicentennial. The push for Mexican independence began in 1810 - sparked by the famous El Grito, the cry of Father Hidalgo calling Mexicans to fight for freedom from Spain - while the Mexican Revolution began in 1910. KERA’s Jerome Weeks reports that North Texas museums and galleries are marking these with a wave of exhibitions and shows.
North Texans soon will be seeing a wide range of Mexican art and history - extending from stone carvings from 700 B.C to contemporary video.
Saturday, the Kimbell Art Museum opens Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, a major show on the art of the Maya, the ancient civilization that flourished in Mexico and Central America before the Spanish arrived. But September 16th is Mexican Independence Day, so the openings will peak next month. With Porfiriato to Revolution, for example, the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University is putting on display historic Mexican photographs and documents from 1876 to 1920. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, meanwhile, will devote all three of its gallery spaces to an installation and a new video by Dallas producer Quin Mathews - on the connections between religious art and current politics in Mexico.