Whenever I visit Mexico City one of the obligatory visits is the Museum of Modern Art. There were three exhibits there on my recent visit: one of feminist works none of which I photographed; one of paintings by Remedios Varo, a very popular surrealist artist here, originally from Spain who I'm not crazy about so there's none of her stuff here either; and a nice collection of a variety of Mexican artists. Some of my favourites were: Raphael Coronel from Zacatecas, a quirky artist who I'm quite fond of
David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the most important artists of Mexican muralist movement.
As was Jose Clemente Orozco
A lesser known selfie
The neighbourhood where I stay is called Roma and it's where Alfonso Cuarón, writer and director of the movie by that name grew up. I found out where the movie was filmed, one street over from his childhood home but apparently more authentic appearing. So I made a visit there.
It gets quite a lot of visitors and they were even selling coffee cups with Roma written on them.
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