First post from Spain, but we’ve been here for 2 weeks! Our home base is Tarragona, but we had an incredible day in Barcelona, visiting the Miró MuseumQuick trip to Sisal, just 1 hour north of Mérida & heaven on earth. Our 1st time swimming in the Gulf of Mexico Some shots from my residency here in Mérida, including a recital at Casa Gemela with wonderful violists Victor Basante, Juan Mendez, Alejandro Tec, and Anita Tamay, and a concert at the Palacio de La Música with the orchestra of UNAY led by Alejandro BasultoHoly cow- how have we been in Mérida for 2 weeks already!? photos from last Tuesday: Mayan ruins of Uxmal and Kabah, and a visit to Cenote Kankirixche Puerto Escondido was heavenRight outside our door at Puerto Escondido A visit to El Tule, the largest tree in the world (in circumference!) and where C and I first met, almost exactly 18 years ago. First week in Oaxaca: earthquake, rainbow, street art, homeschool, new favorite restaurant (owned by Lila Downs!!)Last day in Cuernavaca: Parque Chapultepec and life-changing paleta A visit to Xochicalco, ruins near Cuernavaca. One of the most fascinating places in Mexico: the civilization that lived here was a true mix of cultures, with elements of Teotihuacán, Mayan and Olmecinfluences. Plus they made some of their instruments out of human bones!
A litJuan SorianoJuan SorianoLeonora CarringtonCuernavaca! We’ve been here for a week and a half. Scenes from the Juan Soriano Museum and the Palacio Cortés and it’s phenomenal Diego Rivera murals, plus the view from our rooftop at different times of day Hasta luego, Coyoacán! Nos encanta. 🩷🩷🩷 Vamos a Cuernavaca! 🚍🚐Teotihuacán including our first excursion on the metro, with its incredible public art. A day on the Zócalo and at the Templo Mayor with our friend Ana (Aryeh kept maki, then Bellas Artes for a lovely concert of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México.“fNew favorite breakfast spot: Cafe Boicot in Coyoacán. Plus the one pic we got from a great dinner chez William HarveyMorning churros, pretty streets, Trotsky’s house (+ chickens!)
More from the pop culture museum, plus our first day of homeschooling!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
After breakfast at a hipster cafe with an inspiring drinks list and croissants the size of Aryeh’s head, we went to the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares. 3 great shows: 1 on Alicia, CDMX’s CBGB (& much more) which sadly seems to have closed just recently, but leaves behind acres of incredible graphic design; 1 on the “Caravana de Corona,” a tour of musical stars in the 50’s, and one on this INCREDIBLE artist Felipe Ehrenberg. I only took one pic of his work, but Google him for much more. Nothing special. Just more walking around shots. 😳What happens when u share an Apple ID with yr kid Who knew Alicia Vikander was a Spanish princess?!Zapata. The reason 1 of our kids was almost named Emiliano Castillo de Chapultepec: the national history museum situated at the top of Parque Chapultepec (“grasshopper hill”). First an imperial palace, then site of a battle where American soldiers slaughtered student cadets (“niños heroes”) at the military school. Home to the coolest toilet I’ve ever seen.Ramiro ChavezJacobine Van der MeerCristina TufiñoAndrea RomeroDiego’s own!Anahuacalli: the museum Diego Rivera designed to house his unreal collection of pre-Colombian art. Love that this was our first “indoor” visit on this trip (if you don’t count the Mercado Coyoacán). Not only are his enormous sketches and his whole collection just so cool, it’s incredibly well curated, so that throughout the museum, works by living artists are integrated so beautifully so that they converse with the collection. This show was called “Casa Erosionada”- you can figure out what that means! Read more about Anahuacalli hereThis is the most amazing description of a work of art by the artist I have ever seen. Here’s the translation in case Spanish isn’t your thing: “When two stars get in the way, their light is apparently extinguished. But in their brief convergence they acquire a new luminosity, black and ardent. 2023. Sculpture. Snake legs that wanted to walk, cacti blood, dragon silicone, hummingbird shadow, biological material of Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim, obsidian dust, paradise bird nectar, Tochtli cannibalized spear, the freshness of a desert to the Sunset, t-shirt of an immigrant who left his clothes when crossing the Rio Grande, pills to cure Moctezumas revenge, Pep pills, cinchos that hold everything, metal barrels that my dad sold, rabbit skin that my mom, Karla and Daniel sewed. My uncle’s belts, black comb found in the” (sorry I didn’t get it all! And sorry I didn’t grab a shot of the work itself!! 🤦🏻♀️)I was today years old when I discovered it’s called Coyoacán because of the coyotes Aryeh and I were playing hide and seek and he somehow didn’t find me here!Images from day 1 in Coyoacán. Parque Frida Kahlo literally a block from our spot! Incredible coffee shop we found (wish we’d known before we breakfasted at basically Mexican Denny’s), plus the view from my yoga mat. Working out the kinks of yesterday’s rugged travel day. Not sure we packed enough books. Mexico’s breakfast chains > USA’s breakfast chains @Vips (pronounced Veeps)I can’t remember the last time I got to see this absolute gem of a human being in person. Such a treat (both culinarily and figuratively) to get to catch up, just a little, with the one and only Elinor Frey.Montreal cool boys
Flight to Montreal delayed because of a flock of dead birds on the runway. Off to a good start!! 😆😭🪿
In the cab on the way to Logan! Country # 1 of the day ✔️Last day of camp, last day of non-homeschool-learning! Don’t know if you can tell, but that’s Mexico on his shirt. ¡Vamos en menos de dos semanas!
