Mexico 2019 - Tamayo Museum

The Museo Rufino Tamayo is a public museum opened in 1981 and created originally to house the collection of the beloved Mexican artist, Rufino Tamayo, and to promote twentieth century art.  

 There were two major exhibitions there on my visit in February, the first being:  Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror.  She is an American artist whose work centers around social themes, feminism, war, isolation.

 The other exhibit was of works by Germán Venegas, a Mexican painter and wood carver.  His later works are infused by his interest in Buddhism.

 A ride through Chapultepec Park on the way home from the museum

 These big trees, like the one in the foreground and across the lake, are known as Montezuma bald cypress and are the national tree of Mexico.