The American School Art Fest: A celebration of creativity and community
The highly anticipated American School Foundation of Guadalajara Art Fest returns for its 36th edition on Saturday, March 29, welcoming the entire community.
The highly anticipated American School Foundation of Guadalajara Art Fest returns for its 36th edition on Saturday, March 29, welcoming the entire community.
I should have stopped at the Museo de la Filosofia Esencial (MUFE) months ago, when I walked by a large sculpture of a jaguar made out of gun components, which sat in front of a white house in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana.
The Ex Convento del Carmen’s Martes Musicales (Musical Tuesdays) program for March has been announced. All recitals are free of charge and will begin at 7:30 p.m. The venue is located at Avenida Juárez 638, in downtown Guadalajara.
Jalisco Philharmonic
Wagner’s Tannhäuser & Faust Overtures, conducted by Inés Rodríguez.
Stepping into the gated plaza in front of the Ex-convento del Carmen from downtown Guadalajara’s gritty streets has always felt like a reprieve—never more so than Tuesday evening for the fourth in a musical series just reincarnated by the incoming state Secretary of Culture: Martes Musicales.
Jalisco Philharmonic
The state orchestra, conducted by José Luis Castillo, performs works by Korngold, Mozart and R. Strauss. Guest violinist Francisco Fullana.
Guadalajara’s Instituto Cultural Cabañas is a place I come to write about art exhibits, but usually end up photographing the building itself, which to me rivals the Alhambra en Granada, Spain, in breathtaking loveliness. That is to say nothing about its central gem, the chapel whose ceiling bears the frescos of Jose Clemente Orozco, which are probably responsible for its designation as a UNESCO heritage site.