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THE MANTON FOUNDATION ANNUAL OROZCO LECTURE

"Gestures of Hospitality: Siqueiros’s March of Humanity for the Hotel de México”

5/11/2016
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Hood Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Exhibitions, Lectures & Seminars

George Flaherty, Assistant Professor of Latin American Art History at the University of Texas, Austin ​
Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros painted his last major work for a hotel project planned for the Mexico City Olympics—an epic reassertion of muralism’s mass appeal. After the state-sponsored Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, the mural also became an archive for the critical gestures available to Mexican citizens after decades of modernization under authoritarian rule.

Image caption: David Alfaro Siqueiros, March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos, east apex, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City, 1964-1971. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City.

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