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Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

En esta obra, escrita por Miguel de Cervantes mucho antes que el Quijote, los jóvenes Rinconete y Cortadillo se integran a la organización criminal que Monipodio dirigía a las orillas del río Guadalquivir, en Sevilla. El lector podrá conocer, consiguientemente, el modo en que se despachaban los encargos que los moradores de la capital andaluza hacían a la peligrosa organización criminal, el monto que los sicarios cobraban por ejecutar cada delito, las trampas que se hacían en los garitos y, finalmente, las vivencias de algunas pobres muchachas a las que, abiertamente, se prostituían. ...

Título: “Un plano de la ciudad de Córdoba fechado en 1790 y confeccionado por Jacinto Díaz de la Fuente”. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba. Año: noviembre de 2015.