A father-and-son artist team blew into Guadalajara this week from Los Angeles for the opening of their show at a gleaming gallery called Dieresis. Mr. Brainwash and Hijack, who are sometimes dubbed “urban artists” and compared to Warhol or Basquiat, are known for their sassy messages and bold images, such as a monkey atop a Coca-Cola logo spouting the positive-thinking maxim, “Follow your dreams.”

For 20 years the International Mariachi Festival has delighted Tapatios and visitors alike with a parade of mariachis, charro horsemen and woman and folkloric dancers from all over Mexico and a dozen or so other nations.

Gathered outside the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce headquarters, more than 600 mariachi musicians played simultaneously for more than five minutes Thursday to set a new Guinness record.

The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) is to present a “special concert” billed to “round off the summer” under the direction of Anatoly Zatin, with assistance from tenor Gabin Gaschen and 11-year-old piano prodigy Daniela Liebman.

“De la Interpretacion a la Representacion,” an exhibition of the work of Simon Cruz and Guillermo Gomez Macias opens at the Colegio de Jalisco Friday, August 30, 8:30 p.m.

The music starts at 10 a.m. just a few blocks from the Cathedral.