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Art Gallery Attractions In Mexico City

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Mexico City, or the City of Mexico , is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centres in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico , a large valley in the high plateaus in the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 meters . The city has 16 boroughs. The 2009 population for the city proper was approximately 8.84 million people, with a land area of 1,485 square kilometers . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21.3 million, which makes it the largest metropo...
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Art Gallery Attractions In Mexico City

  • 6. Museo de El Carmen Mexico City
    The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun and the Aztec Xochipilli statue. The museum is managed by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , or INAH. Assessments of the museum vary, with one considering it a national treasure and a symbol of identity. The museum is the synthesis of an ideological, scientific, and political feat. Octavio Paz criticized the museum's making the Mexica hall central, saying the exaltation and glorification of Mexico-Te...
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  • 8. Galeria OMR Mexico City
    Galería OMR is a contemporary art gallery located in Mexico City. Galería OMR was founded in 1983 by its principals Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra. The gallery is located in the Roma district which is now recognized as the leading art scene area in Mexico City. The gallery represents emerging and established contemporary artists, and it is the exclusive representative of the estates of Adolfo Riestra and Luis Ortiz Monasterio, and Alberto Gironella. Since its beginning, Galería OMR has been a major influence on the arts in Mexico, showing avant-garde artists that have now become some of the referential points of the Mexican art scene. Among the fairs in which the gallery participates are Zona MACO , Art Basel , Art Brussels and Art Basel Miami . In 2009, OMR opened a projec...
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  • 9. Casa del Lago Mexico City
    Casa del Lago was instituted in 1959 as the first off-campus Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. It is characterized by its extraordinary ability to promote the cultural and generational encounter between the vanguard and tradition. It was established with Juan José Arreola as its founding director and is located in the Woods of Chapultepec, a traditional Sunday walk area for the inhabitants of the capital. In each of the artistic disciplines, that have taken place in this multifaceted enclosure, the originality and experimentation have gathered together and allowed the creators to show how the contemporary is not incompatible with the large popular audience that visit it, turn it into an emblematic place in the cultural scene of the city.
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  • 10. Salon de la Plastica Mexicana Mexico City
    Salón de la Plástica Mexicana is an institution dedicated to the promotion of Mexican contemporary art. It was established in 1949 to expand the Mexican art market. Its first location was in historic center of the city but today it mostly operates out of a building in Colonia Roma. The institution is run by a membership of almost four hundred recognized artists and holds multiple exhibitions each year. Although it operates autonomously, it is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura.
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