If you missed the travelling Wolfgang Tillmans show at the Hammer in L.A. or any other place it's been recently, its final stop is in Mexico Ciy, at the Rufino Tamayo contemporary art museum (which by the way really gives me in its design and lay-out the beautifully Brutalist Berkeley Art Museum at the UC campus). The retrospective's opening here was last Thursday. A handsome crowd came out to take in the show of large-print photographs of naked people, people making out, dirty floors, branches in windows, crumpled linens, hair, etc., and collages of headlines and news articles. Then it seemed everyone went to the Covadonga, the gentlemanly old Spanish cantina that has long been adopted by the local art and cinema folks.
Tillmans won the Turner prize in 2000. My gut reaction: Gee, these are good MySpace pictures.
* Also, this week the mavens and mavericks of the film industry meet in Mexico City for FICCO. The opening Tuesday night was a red-carpet event at the glittering Antara mall in Polanco. The marquee feature was "Eastern Promises," screened in the super luxe Cinemex theaters. They serve gourmet food, at your reclining leather armchair if you so wish. Afterwards, downstairs, Don Julio tequila for everyone, without limits.