Category Archives: San Miguel de Allende

David Alfaro Siqueiros Again

In response to the post below, Lance Wyman sent me this great photo of Mexican muralist Siqueiros he took in 1971 when he (Lance) was down here after completing the graphics for the Mexico Olympics and the Mexico Subway among other … Continue reading

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The Yellow Peril

  What to do with 444 copies of National Geographic magazine? They seem too nice to chuck away, but where the hell do you put them? I discovered this great cabinet in Dr Gerry Acevedo’s waiting room (he’s our dentist) in San … Continue reading

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Viva Whoever

Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero ? Not sure who this lot were followers of, but I found this photo pinned to the wall in Jorge’s barber shop on Animas this week here in San Miguel. Maybe just employees of the … Continue reading

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Rebar Roman

This wonderful crucifix stands in the Parque Benito Juárez, San MIguel de Allende, Mexico. What is best about it are the inscriptions – a typeface created with welded letters made out of steel rods and floated off the surface a … Continue reading

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Siqueiros Mural in the Bellas Artes on View Again

After a couple of years in hiding due to renovations that were necessary because of a roof collapse elsewhere in the building, the 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros is now on view again in the Escuela de Bellas … Continue reading

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Mexico’s Star Wars Initiative

Not to be outdone by President Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars Initiative, Mexican Special Forces operatives disguised some of their troops as Chewbacca, at immediate standby to scare the crap out of any military invaders. Unfortunately, they are not effective for … Continue reading

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Armless Enough

Why doesn’t Our Lady of Loreto have any arms? Funny you should ask. In 1291, fearing the imminent attack of the Turks, Our Lady of Loreto picked up the house in Nazareth in which Mary was born (somewhat upgraded here … Continue reading

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Corny Constable Sunset

  After a somewhat unusual (as usual) summer so far, the weather in the Bajío here in Mexico has returned to the typical brilliant blue skies with hot afternoons and cool evening breezes, and the usual dramatic sunset skies that Constable … Continue reading

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Art and Plastic Surgery?

Well, I suppose if you can smack around a lump of clay or hack away at a chunk of stone, you can do the same thing to someone’s face.

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Compact Cactus Disk

Walking down the Calzada de la Luz this week we came across this arresting apparition – wondering whether it was a miraculous natural cactus evolution, or whether someone had spectacularly lodged the CD there, frisby-like, from twenty feet away, which … Continue reading

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