October continues with activities to prepare for the Day of the Dead, in addition to having unique exhibitions and premieres in cinemas that you cannot miss during this second weekend of the month.
Here we leave you the complete list:
Meeting of Catrinas
Being a characteristic element of Mexican culture for the Day of the Dead, this weekend a meeting will be held where you can enjoy workshops, makeup artists and photographers to pay tribute to the Catrinas.
With a suitable setting for taking photographs, this event also seeks to bring this art to the streets of the city, so Madero and Bellas Artes will also be settings to portray the character so representative of our tradition.
Makeup artists, photographers and models can come to this meeting without prior registration.
- When: October 11 at 12:00 pm.
- Where: National Museum of Art (MUNAL).
Swan Lake
Accompanied by the Fine Arts Theater Orchestra, under the direction of maestro Gavriel Heine and through the National Dance Company (CND), they will present one of the most emblematic works of universal ballet this weekend.
The impossible love between young Odette and Prince Siegfried, threatened by the spell and tricks of Von Rothbart and his daughter Odile, is the central plot of this piece, which is about to celebrate 150 years since its creation in 1877.
Check ticket availability here.
- When: October 11.
- Where: National Auditorium.
UNAM Culture Festival
With its fourth year of existence, this festival has already established itself as one of the most anticipated cultural events in the city, offering a wide variety of activities, with 120 artistic and academic proposals in different venues.
For more than two weeks, UNAM will bring together up to 135 guests from 17 countries in a program full of artistic diversity that ranges from music to theater and even visual arts events and immersive experiences. This festival provides a space to appreciate art in its various forms and you won’t want to miss it.
Check the complete program and the different venues through its official website.
- When: Until October 11.
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Exhibitions that you don’t want to miss in CDMX
Dog Dream: immersive installation
Turning 25 years old, the film “Amores Perros”, in addition to its re-release, will also have this exhibition where director Alejandro González Iñárritu invites attendees to explore a labyrinth illuminated by 35 mm analog projectors, where unpublished content from the film can be seen.
This exhibition, in addition to remembering the director’s film debut, seeks to propose a reflection on cinema as a dream, moving away from digital to return to the nostalgia of physical texture and celluloid.
- Where: Lake/Something, Chapultepec Forest.
Magali Lara: five decades in a spiral (last weeks)
As a feminist artist, Lara’s work offers images and stories about the reciprocity between beings and sensations, states and emotions in an intimate expression transferred to the dialogue between objects, strokes and pigments.
Her own visual language managed to become recognizable by representing spaces and objects, exploring the contemporary female experience with delicacy and humor, achieving this thanks to paintings, drawings and animations.
- When: Until October 19.
- Where: Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC).
Warhol and his fleeting shutter
In this exhibition, Andy Warhol transforms everyday life into memory, inviting us to discover the most intimate facet of the photographer.
More than simple portraits, photographs were fundamental tools in his creative process, which is why the polaroids collected are testimony to an era.
The exhibition also includes a selection of gelatin silver prints, images that reveal other fixations of the artist: myths, domestic icons, urban signs that appeared and disappeared in his daily practice. These records are presented as explorations that nourished his best-known works.
- When: Starting October 3rd.
- Where: Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Room 4.
The Tiger’s Coat
This project by independent curator Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio proposes an exhibition in which fiction and history intertwine, making it based on the multiple facets of the life of Tina Modotti, photographer, activist, spy and enigmatic cultural figure.
The curator seeks to exhibit the artist’s photographic work to rethink the links, real and fantastic, that her work has in relation to the contemporary, which is why the title is inspired by a silent film that Modotti starred in, released in 1920 in Hollywood.
Through pieces by various modern and contemporary artists, as well as documents of historical value and works that reconstruct Modotti’s impact on the art and politics of her time, the exhibition addresses a story about the photographer’s multiple relationships both in the past and today.
- When: Starting September 25.
- Where: Jumex Museum.
World Press Photo 2025 (last weekend)
The most important international photojournalism contest in the world arrives once again in Mexico, and this weekend it will begin so you can appreciate a series of photographs that seek to address a variety of topics such as political, cultural, social and climatic conflicts.
With 42 winning works making up the exhibition, highlighting the Mexican presence by having a photograph by Musuk Nolte, who won in the Stories category with a documentary series about the extreme drought in the Amazon.
You can purchase your passes through the museum’s official website.
- When: Until October 12.
- Where: Franz Mayer Museum.
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Releases coming to theaters this weekend
Witch Hunt
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, it brings together a stellar cast composed of Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield in an intense drama and suspense production that explores the moral dilemma of a university professor who faces an accusation made by a student against one of her colleagues, which forces her to confront her own story: a dark secret from her past that threatens to come to light and put her life at risk. professional and personal.
Re-release of Amores Perros
25 years after its premiere, this classic of Mexican cinema returns to the big screen to remember why it marked a before and after.
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s debut feature, scripted by Guillermo Arriaga, and starring Gael García Bernal, not only broke out in 2000 with an intense narrative, but also inaugurated a new era for national cinema.
Its re-release invites us to revisit that chaotic Mexico City that found its fiercest mirror in cinema.
