Este viernes pasado, un gran número de personas se reunieron en una sala del CECUT donde se llevó a cabo la inauguración de dos exhibiciones de pintura y fotografía. El primer festival anual de Rosarito en el CECUT contó con la presentación de más de 70 proyectos artísticos y 380 participantes, con pinturas de Rocio […]
On Friday, a standing room only crowd gathered with excitement for the inauguration of two exhibitions of paintings and photography in the CECUT. The first annual Rosarito at the CECUT Festival featured more than 70 artistic projects and 380 participants, with paintings by Rocio Hoffmann, Ronaldo Glaubitz, Polo Valencia, Víctor Amaya, David Moreida and others, […]
El Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) se complace en presentar el primer Festival Multidisciplinario de Rosarito, el cual se llevará a cabo en el CECUT este viernes. El festival ofrece un panorama de arte y producción cultural de la región. El evento contará con fotografía, pintura, música, exhibiciones, historia y danza. El viernes en punto de […]
CECUT is pleased to announce the First Multidisciplinary Rosarito Festival opening at CECUT this Friday. The festival offers a panorama of the arts and cultural production of the region. Photography, painting, music and performance, history and dance will be featured. On Friday at 7:00, two art exhibitions will open: in the entrance of the IMAX […]
Alberto Blanco, crítico de arte y uno de los poetas más importantes de México, dará una plática el día jueves 12 de febrero titulada "Remedios Varo y La Ruptura". En conjunto con la exhibición en curso de El Cubo, Blanco reflexionará acerca del importante papel que Remedios Varo jugó en el movimiento artístico mexicano de […]
Alberto Blanco, art critic and one of Mexico's most important poets, will present a talk on Thursday, February 12 titled "Remedios Varo and The Rupture." In conjunction with the ongoing exhibit in El Cubo, Blanco will reflect on the role of Remedios Varo in the important Mexican post-war art movement "The Rupture." The "Breakaway Generation" […]
Thursday, January 29, CECUT is pleased to present a conference by Irene Herner, author of the book "Siqueiros: from Paradise to Utopia" (2011). [/p] Herner is an art historian and author of several books on Mexican modernism, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In her work on Siqueiros, her goal was to expand upon the […]
Showing Friday, January 30 at 7:00 PM in the Cineteca Carlos Monsiváis at CECUT and featuring a special appearance here by director Tufic Mahklouf Akl, is the premiere of "Misterio y revelación" (Mystery and Revelation), the award-winning 2013 documentary about the life of surrealist painter Remedios Varo. [/p] An artist of singular vision and style, […]
Now showing this week and next at CECUT, "The Dance of Reality" (2013) Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in 23 years. Best known for his psychedelic 1970s cult movies "El Topo" and "The Magic Mountain," Jodorowsky's new film is alternately more carnivalesque and playful and more deeply personal than his earlier films. Described as a "memory […]
Birthdays, first communions, quinceañeras, weddings: photographs of these more personal moments of our lives are most often stored away safely in family photo albums on a high shelf in the closet. Once in a great while, personal history can take on a public life in galleries, and one person's life becomes a window on a […]
Everybody loves animation. From the early cave paintings to the modern graphic novel to Pixar, the beauty and simplicity of this form of storytelling has a universal appeal to young and old alike. A new exhibition of illustration and caricature at CECUT in the foyer of the IMAX dome showcases revered local Tijuana artist Carlos […]
TIJUANA.- For nice way to relax and enjoy an afternoon with friends or family, you should check out CECUT, the Tijuana Cultural Center, located in the heart of Tijuana's Zona Rio. VIDEO: A quick tour of CECUT The round and most prominent structure of the CECUT is affectionately named "La Bola" or "The Ball," an […]
"Today I do not belong to any group. I paint what occurs to me and that is all." These reflections of Remedios Varo from an interview in 1957, just six years before her sudden and untimely death in 1963, speak to the singular vision and inner fortitude of one of Mexico's most important 20th-century artists. […]
I had to laugh this week when a friend posted a status update on Facebook that the shorter border wait times are going to mean booming Black Friday sales for San Diego merchants. I'm an American citizen, I have a full-time job in San Diego, and I've enjoyed a rich, full life in Tijuana for […]
In historical archives, you can really feel the past. There's something very real, something you can touch and feel in the dust, the ornate quill pen script and inkblots on cracked parchment paper. You get this same sensual feeling of the "real" from the new multimedia exhibition Memorias de Fuego by José Hugo Sánchez in […]
This Friday November 28, at 7 PM, the Centro Cultural Tijuana will host the opening of the 8th International Biennial of Standards. The project was started in 1996 by Tijuana-based artist Marta Palau. Using the "standard" or banner as a form of artistic expression, Palau wanted to situate Tijuana as a point of both continental […]
A man sleeps under a worn blanket wedged into a crevice in the dirt up against the border wall in Tijuana. The steep pitch of the wall careens across the frame in a sharp diagonal fall, revealing a giant cliff face just below. With this visual image, photographer David Meneses de la Paz captures the […]
Smiling teenagers gather for a selfie in front of a Siqueiros mural: this is what a living cultural heritage is all about. Proof of the aesthetic and historical value of art is that these works by modernist master David Alfaro Siqueiros continue to delight the viewer. VIDEO: La Tallera: Siqueiros exhibit Inside the El Cubo […]
Tijuana is thriving. And you see this mostly in Tijuana's neighborhoods, its rows of new master-planned communities decorating the landscape, "For Sale" signs on every corner. Two events coming up in October at Art Produce Gallery in San Diego's North Park neighborhood engage with this scramble for land, streets and sidewalks, and roof overhead. They […]
"This is my little grain of salt, my way of promoting a social experience between Tijuana and San Diego." So says Tijuana native and professional photographer Victor Balcazar, who is leading the annual Worldwide Photo Walk in Tijuana's Playas neighborhood in October. This annual event will put Tijuana on the map with 1200 other world […]
