Though there are other venues for contemporary art in the Mexican capital, the Jumex, with its high-profile location and deep-pocketed patron, is likely to do more than any other to bring a shock of the new to a city largely defined by its vast troves of pre-Columbian, colonial and 20th century masterworks. CHEAT SHEET: Fall arts preview 2013 “We’re looking ahead,” Jumex collection coordinator Humberto Moro said last week as he gave a sneak peek of an inaugural exhibition dedicated to the work of the late American conceptual artist James Lee Byars. “Otherwise, we’d be building another Diego Rivera museum. Which would be great, but” Moro’s half-finished thought speaks volumes about the mission of the Jumex. In quintessential Mexican style, the museum takes pains to honor the past: As part of it opening activities it is releasing a book exploring the work of Fernando Gamboa, 20th century Mexico’s most important art curator and museum director.
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View gallery A demonstrator wears a helmet with a sticker that reads “Pemex is not for sale” during a protest against the privatisation of the state oil monopoly Pemex in Mexico City July 1, 2013. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo MADRID (Reuters) – Mexican state-owned oil major Pemex is seeking to join forces with billionaire Carlos Slim to buy a 10 percent stake in Spanish oil group Repsol (MCE:REP), to add to the 9.3 percent it already holds, ABC newspaper reported on Tuesday citing unnamed sources. Pemex, which has threatened to sell out of the Spanish company in the past because of differences with Chairman Antonio Brufau, will present the plan in its next board meeting, the paper said. Such a transaction would make Pemex the biggest stakeholder in Repsol. As part of the deal, Slim would buy Repsol shares in the market. At Monday’s closing price, a 10 percent stake in Repsol would have a market value of more than 2.4 billion euros ($3.3 billion).
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Minivan shooting video: Why New Mexico police fired on family
And he brings his photographers eye and techniques to his film making. Often he keeps his camera perfectly still and lets it roll for a long time to create what are essentially still lives in moving pictures often of bodies or blood-spattered cars. That stillness allows you time to gaze at the detail of the gore on the inside of the windshield, taking it in and perhaps thinking about the person whose life has just been blasted away. Stills allow for that contemplation. Films about violence often do not. For all the horror, these are remarkably beautiful images, and that makes Narco Cultura stand out from a lot of documentaries filmed in conflict zones. Most conflict films are exhausting and upsetting enough; jittery, hand-held camerawork and quick edits can leave the audience feeling even more drained.
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“At the moment, we more or review less have an agreement with (Mexico),” Ecclestone said at the U.S. Grand Prix. “They have to provide the circuit. It’s causing a bit of a problem. It needs to Chiriqui be rebuilt, their circuit.” Mexico hasn’t hosted a grand prix since 1992. Officials knew the existing track at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez at Mexico City needed major upgrades, but gave the race a tentative time slot for next November.
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Thousands gathered on Mexico City’s main plaza Sunday to hear Cardenas call for a nonbinding referendum on any changes in the oil business. He said they have collected more than 1 million signatures so far of the 1.6 million needed. “We should be consulted before they adopt a measure that is so regressive and damaging to the http://vicohentesf.fotopages.com/?entry=9637760 interests of Mexico and Mexican,” Cardenas told Chiriqui the crowd. But the rallies so far have not been as large as they were in 2006, the last time Congress tried to open up the oil industry. So far the opponents don’t appear to have the votes in congress to block the reform. The problem, oil analyst George Baker said, is that Mexicans still think of oil as physical property, patrimony, while oil companies see it as something to post on a ledger. No one exploring or producing in national reserves ever really owns the oil, he said.
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Kassetas said he has seen the video and has “concerns relating to the conduct of the officer who discharged his firearm.” He said the department “will take swift action” if the investigation determines the officer acted improperly. Gallegos said based on what he’s seen from the video, the district attorney’s office will not pursue criminal charges against the officers. But he said that could change if state police present more evidence. On the video, the initial officer could be heard telling Farrell she had been driving 71 mph in a 55 mph zone. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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