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A ‘Restrained Homage To Over-The-Top Art’: The Museum Of The International Baroque

VISUAL Posted: March 6, 2019 12:03 pm

Justin Davidson: “There’s a certain slyly subversive quality to the displays of manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, foods, scientific instruments, silverware, home furnishings, and scenes of Monteverdi opera and Shakespeare performed in Spanish. Here [in Puebla, Mexico], a formerly colonized people have placed the colonists’ culture on display, as if to acknowledge with a hint of surprise that Europe such an advanced civilization in the 17th and 18th century.” – New York Magazine

VISUAL Published: 03.04.19

Read the story in New York Magazine Published: 03.04.19

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