Edgar Alejandro Hernández
Former director claims Frida Kahlo works went missing from Mexico City museum
Hilda Trujillo Soto, a leader at the museums for nearly 20 years, claims six pages from Kahlo’s diary and more than a dozen works went missing and some were reportedly sold by auction houses and a gallery in the US
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Comment | Hastily reinstalled ethnographic galleries have turned Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology into political theatre
Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision
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The limits of transnational women’s solidarity in Mexico City’s art scene
Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics