by Alison Wattie December 10, 2014 5 Art+Culture Meet the Artist Merida Meet the Artist: Manuel Taure I don’t call myself an artist. I am simply a filter of my life.” When artist Manuel Taure shared thoseContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie December 1, 2014 10 Art+Culture Meet the Artist Merida Meet the Artist: Viviana Hinojosa This interview was conducted in December 2014 “My friends think I’m crazy because I live alone with six cats”, laughsContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie November 6, 2014 6 Art+Culture Merida Animated Dia de los Muertos By Ashley Graham, Kate Reynolds and Lindsey St. Pierre This is a wonderful vignette of the celebratory ‘Day of theContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie November 4, 2014 2 Art+Culture Merida Sugar Skulls and Bread of the Dead For those of you who are as curious as I am about the symbolism behind the alters (ofrendas) of DiaContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie November 3, 2014 11 Art+Culture Merida Prose+Poetry Day of the Dead, Night of the Living In the Yucatan, this centuries old celebration is called Hanal Pixan, or Food for the Souls, and lasts over a week. TheContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie October 27, 2014 2 Art+Culture Foodology Merida ‘Cook It Raw’ comes to Merida “The food is so fucking beautiful!” ALESSANDRO PORCELLI Let’s be honest. The Yucatan has never been on the world’s culinaryContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie October 20, 2014 1 Art+Culture Road Trips Looking at Art Makes Me Feel Alive Witnessing a person, or persons, creativity consumes me with wonder. Wonder and hope. When I look at art, I imagineContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie October 14, 2014 2 Art+Culture Road Trips And Then God Gave Us Anselm Kiefer A proper blog post on my unexpected sojourn to London is forthcoming, but for now, I am left speechless by theContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie November 12, 2012 1 Art+Culture Merida Art in the Yucatan Driving through Campeche on our last day on the road, we stumbled on an amazing display of sculpture by JavierContinue Reading
by Alison Wattie October 29, 2012 Number of comments0 Art+Culture The Space Between Mural In Ajijic art in everything, and everything in art