Palacio de Bellas Artes is a magnificent Art Deco building downtown. It features a performance space, with a glass curtain made by Tiffany which is only shown on Sunday mornings. Unfortunately, when we went back on Sunday morning, a performance was in progress and we couldn't see it. But there were many impressive murals by several Mexican artists that we were able to walk around and see.
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This is an architectural detail, I guess. Too high to be a coat rack.
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La Humanidad Liberándose
Jorge González Camarena
1963
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La nueva democracia
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1944 - 1945
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Víctimas del fascismo
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1945
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Cuauhtémoc redivivo: el tormento de Cuauhtémoc
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1951
David Alfaro Siqueiros seems to have had certain issues.
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Man at the Crossroads, by Diego Rivera. This is Rivera's recreation of the mural "Man In Control Of The Universe", commissioned for the Rockefeller Center in 1933. The Rockefellers didn't like the political content and had it painted over.
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An "unobstructed" view of this mural, courtesy of Wikipedia. They are even more heavy handed with their contrast enhancement than I am.
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Someone had put soap into the fountain in the park next to the palace.
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