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When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego passed three years later, a philanthropist, art collector and old friend of the couple, Dolores Olmedo became the manager of their houses. She kept all of Kahlo’s belongings secretly guarded under lock and key for decades until [...]
It’s called the Vochol, a cross between the word ‘vocho’, slang in Mexico for the popular Beetle, and the word ‘Huichol’, the isolated indigenous natives of west central Mexico who spent seven months making it. This beautiful 1990 Volkswagen Beetle was hand decorated by two Huichol families using more than 2 million glass beads and bee’s wax [...]
Are you in the mood for a good ghost story? I always am. Doll collecting is a pretty spooky habit on its own. But when you start hanging them from trees on a remote island allegedly haunted by the spirit of a girl, well, things start to tip the scales. Deep in the canals of [...]
If this doesn’t give a much-needed boost to tourism in Mexico, I don’t know what will. I’ve come across an artist called Jason DeCaires Taylor, whose work has pretty much blown out of the water (pun intended) anything that I saw exhibiting at the Paris FIAC Art Fair last week. The sculpter and scuba diver [...]
When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego
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It’s called the Vochol, a cross between the word ‘vocho’, slang in Mexico for
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