Now Showing in Los Angeles By Marita Adair The  Olmec have arrived. Again. Three thousand five hundred years after their debut as a civilization, another  exquisite exhibition, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico is front and center at the new Resnik Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) through Jan. 9, 2010. It’s been [...]

by Marita Adair Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner’s Journals of the Roaring Twenties (University of Texas Press, 2010) had it’s first public outing in San Antonio last week. Edited and compiled by her daughter, Susannah Glusker, the splendidly illustrated work in two volumes, includes the years 1925 to 1930 when Mexico, fresh [...]

By Marita Adair A robot went exploring  under the Temple of the Plumed Serpent.at the pre-Hispanic Teotihuacan  archaeological site outside Mexico City.  Instituto Nacional de Archeologia Historica (INAH) officials announced last week. It rolled into a tunnel where mankind has not trod for 1,800 years. Looking more like a miniature moon buggy, it slipped, through [...]

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth August 29, 2010-January 2, 2011 Saint Louis Art Museum February 13, 2011 – May 8, 2011 By Marita Adair It’s happening again. Revolutionary, knowledge-changing insights into the ancient Maya world.  Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, an exhibition opening Aug. 29, 2010 at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort [...]

Marita Adair Olmec Symposium NOV 21-22 Austin, Texas 9-ton Olmec Head The Centerpiece The unveiling of a gift replica 9-ton colossal stone Olmec head on Nov 19, at the University of Texas’ Mexican Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), in Austin, Texas is such a big deal, that it [...]

Update on the Placido Domingo Concert Chichen Itza, Oct. 4, 2008 By Marita Adair  August 4, 2008. Placido fever is spreading, or so it seems. One message I read has a daily countdown to his Oct. 4 concert at Chichen Itza. There’s expectation that the concert will be a sellout and that hotels will fill. [...]

Placido Domingo To Perform  Oct. 4, 2008 at Mexico’s Chichen Itza Tickets Available Now By Marita Adair Luciano Pavarotti appeared there in 1997.  So will Placido Domingo, Saturday, October 4, 2008. “The Concert of the Thousand Columns, Placido Domingo at Chichén Itzá, will feature the world-renowned operatic tenor using the same memorable backdrop as for [...]