The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and Florida International University Alumni Association

Art in Mexico: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Mexico City, October 1-7, 2012

Join us for this inaugural travel opportunity with Dr. Carol Damian, Director of the Frost Art Museum. Learn about Mexican Artists in Mexico City!

Cost: $2,500 per person based on double occupancy; airfare not included. Space is limited. Travel eligibility requires a Frost Patron level Friend donation of $250. A portion of the travel cost will be dedicated to FIU scholarships to support student education in the arts.

Program Highlights

Lectures with Mexico's leading Art Historians & Curators

Visits to Mexico's cutting edge Galleries and Museum of Contemporary Art

View Private Collections from Mexico's leading collectors of Mexican Art

Exclusive visits to Museum Exhibits, led by Museum Directors & Curators

Enjoy Art Gallery Crawl in Colonia Roma

Guided visits to Mexico's Historic Center to learn about the Mexican Muralists

Visit to Coyoacan, San Angel & Xochimilco to Frida Kahlo's "Blue The Two Fridas, 1939, 67” x 67”, Museo de Arte Moderno Collection House", Dolores Olmedo Museum, Frida & Diego Studios & charming San Angel Inn The Frost Art Museum joins the FIU Alumni Association to bring you this very special travel opportunity to Mexico City. Travel with Frost Art Museum Director Carol Damian in partnership with Tia Stephanie Tours whose founder, Stephanie Schneiderman grew up in Mexico City, lived and studied in Miami, and has a B.A. in International Relations from FIU. Stephanie was born in Cuba and has the cultural and language fluency to make for a perfect Mexican host.

Our base will be the Hotel Emporio on Paseo de la Reforma; days will include art talks, museum visits, architectural sites, gallery tours, studio visits, and meals with collectors, academics and scholars. Experience the rich traditions of historic Mexican art and architecture, the fame of the 20th Century mural- ists, the work and legacies of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and the excite- ment that is the contemporary art scene in sprawling Mexico City.

We invite you to join us on this intimate tour that will have the feel of a Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo personal journey with friends from Mexico City! Architect: Teodoro González de León

Itinerary

Day 1, Monday, Oct. 1 We visit the sprawling former Hacienda, Day 6, Saturday, Oct. 6 where Dolores Olmedo, patron of the Arrive Mexico City; Transfer to Hotel, In- arts, sponsored Diego Rivera’s work, The Plaza of the Three Cultures: troduction Presentation by Professor Museo Dolores Olmedo. Here, we Tlaltelolco, Blaisten Collection, Karen Cordero: 20th Century Mexican Art see art works by Diego, Frida, and walk Memorial ‘68 History/Overview & Welcome Dinner. You the spectacular sprawling garden Today we visit a unique place in Mexi- will be met at the Mexico City Benito Juarez grounds of this property. Peacocks are co City: The Plaza de las Tres Cul- Airport (MEX) to transfer to our lovely hotel: everywhere, and the xolos are in their turas (Three Cultures) to see this im- El Emporio, located on the majestic Paseo de garden playing. Returning home, we visit portant Plaza representing the Mesoa- la Reforma. We enjoy a fabulous introductory the largest public university in the Amer- merican and Spanish cultures. This presentation on the History of 20th Century icas: UNAM & the Contemporary Art site has added significance, as it was Mexican Art, by Art Professor and Curator, Museum, MUAC. The campus is known here in Tlaltelolco, where a student Karen Cordero. This presentation will help for its architecture and layout. Here, we massacre occurred in 1968 (Mexico’s orient us throughout the week, so we under- see Juan O’Gorman mosaics at Library Kent State). We see a moving memori- stand major milestones and figures in Mexi- Building, Siquieros 3 D Mural and Rivera al erected to honor these students who can Art. After our lecture, we enjoy a lovely murals. Returning to out Hotel, dinner is fell. Also on this site, is an important welcome dinner at a Mexico City favorite: La at Leisure. (B, L) collection of Mexican art, the Blaisten Fonda el Refugio in the “Zona Rosa”. (D) Collection, where we will receive a Day 4, Thursday, Oct. 4 guided tour by the museum director Day 2, Tuesday, Oct. 2 and we will meet the collector, himself: Colonia Roma Art Gallery Crawl. Andres Blaisten! We enjoy our Fare- Presentation by Dr. Carol Damian, His- Today we immerse ourselves in the epi- well Dinner, Azul Condesa, with toric Center & Alameda Park Region. center of Mexico's contemporary art sce- famed Chef Ricardo Munoz We begin our day with a presentation by Dr. ne: The Art Galleries of Colonia Roma. Zurita! (B, L, D) Carol Damian: The Art & Politics of Diego We will visit important Galleries, such as: Rivera. Then we begin our explorations of OMR, Nina Menocal, Pecanins and Day 7, Sunday, Oct. 7 Mexico City! First stop: Colegio Antiguo others. We also visit Casa Lamm, an art San Idelfonso to see where Mexican Mural- school, gallery, library, book store and Depart for Airport ism began. We then visit the Zocalo, the terrace restaurant, to enjoy a refresh- largest city square in the Western Hemi- ment surrounded by the Porfiriato Era sphere, and 3rd largest after the Red Square architecture of this grand building. We and Tiananmen Square. By visiting the Tem- lunch at one of Mexico's newest and fa- plo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, the former vorite restaurants: Maximo Bistro, capital city of the Aztecs, The Main Cathe- where Chef Eddie Garcia prepares dral & Diego Rivera’s Mural Cycle at everything daily from the freshest ingre- the National Palace, we get a better under- dients purchased each day. Return to standing of Mexico’s complex history. We Hotel & Dinner. (B, L, D) lunch at El Cardenal, a Mexico City favorite, followed by a visit to the grand Neo- Day 5, Friday, Oct. 5 Classical Palace of Fine Arts to learn mo- about this building, and to see some of the Museo de Arte Moderno & Museum most important Murals in Mexico, such as of Anthropology. Today is dedicated to Diego Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads”, orig- the Exhibit, In Wonderland: The Sur- inally intended for Rockefeller Center, but realist Adventures of Women Art- torn down due to its politicized content. We ists in Mexico & the United States at can compare artistic content and technique of the Museo de Arte Moderno. Before go- El Emporio, Mexico City. Period Hotel the most important muralists of the 20th ing to the Museum, we will enjoy a break- with Modern Interior located on Reforma. Century. We end our day with a tour and fast presentation by Curator, Teresa wine tasting event at the Franz Mayer Arcq, who will give us insight into the Museum, where we will be met by Director, curatorial and museographical aspects of Hector Rivero. Return to Hotel. (B, L) this extraordinary exhibit that highlights often obscured women artists of the Day 3: Wednesday, Oct. 3 modern era. Teresa Arcq will accompany Travel info contact: us on our visit to the Museum. Following Ximena Gallegos Mexico City’s Southern Region & Lec- our in depth visit, we will break for a rest ture on Frida's Wardrobe by Anthro- and walk across the Reforma Avenue for 305.348.2254 pologist, Marta Turok: After our presen- more explorations, this time at the Na- [email protected] tation on Frida & her identity through dress, tional Museum of Anthropology, we travel to Mexico City’s southern region of where will will learn about Mexico’s an-

Coyoacan, San Angel & Xochimilco to cient art. Tonight we enjoy an exclusive learn more of the world of Frida Kahlo and visit to a Polanco Art Gallery for a talk To sign up contact: Diego Rivera. We visit the home where Frida on Mexico’s contemporary art scene, fol- Stephanie Schneiderman grew up, Casa Azul; & the Frida & Diego lowed by a tequila tasting, hosted by Tia Stephanie Tours Studios, designed by Juan O’ Gorman, the our friends from Tequila Cazdaores! 734.769.7839 art Studios where Frida and Diego worked. Dinner in Polanco. (B, L, D) [email protected] Lunch is at famed San Angel Inn!