MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW ORLEANS

ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE July 25th to September 27th, 2019 Javier Senosiain was born in Mexico in 1948.  His early life consisted mostly of a middle-class family. At the time he was a budding artist and was very involved in his towns small art community. Some of his inspirations were simple things such as snakes and peanuts but in his eyes, they were a true artisan.

The Mexican Cultural Institute in collaboration  with the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation  is pleased to present the exhibition Calladita te ves mas bonita Be pretty and shut up by Carmen Mariscal from March 21 to May 24, 2019 Opening reception Thursday, March 21 6:00 to 9:00 pm Mexican Cultural Institute 901 Convention Center Blvd. Suite 118 - New Orleans, LA

The Mexican Cultural Institute and the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University are pleased to invite you to the opening reception of the 2019 Maya Symposium The Center Could not Hold The Ancient Maya and Collapse on February 14th, 2019 at the Art Gallery of the MCI. Come and enjoy with us an evening of celebration of the great Maya Culture and have the last opportunity to see the exhibition "Diego and Frida: A Halfway Smile".  The exhibition is an amazing collection of photographs from the Instituto de Bellas Artes in Mexico.

_________________________________________________________________________________ A Brief History of the Aztecs   The Aztecs are along with the Mayas, the most famous pre-hispanic culture in Mexico. They founded the city of Tenochtitlan in 1325 AD on a small island in the middle of a lake and became the most powerful empire of Mesoamerica in a period less than 200 years. They left a large corpus of archaeological remains that show the development of their society. For their part, the European priests and conquerors who arrived in the city in 1519 AD were surprised by their beauty and the complexity of the Aztec religion. For this reason they wrote numerous chronicles and produced, together with the natives valuable pictorial manuscripts where it is possible to appreciate the history of this town. We will travel through this fascinating society to see the evolution of the Aztecs from their origins as hunter-gatherers...

The Mexican Cultural Institute and the Consulate of Mexico in New Orleans are pleased to announce the screening of the film ROMA by Academy Award (R)-winning director and writer  Alfonso Cuarón at  The Broad Theater  from December 14th to 24th, 2018

The exhibition  Diego and Frida, A Halfway Smile  consists of personal photographs through which the wonderful world shared by Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is revealed. One of the most controversial couples in the history of art in Mexico, united for almost 25 years, their relationship is marked by an infinity of encounters and disagreements. This axis of love witnessed innumerable contacts, closeness, complicity and deep friendships with great personalities of the time. It is through the images captured by friends like Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Nicolas Murray and Edward Weston that different stages of the relationship, life, pain and death of Frida and Diego are presented. From December 7, 2018 to February 15, 2019