We spent the past weekend hiding from the daily calamity that is Mexico City by stealthily hiding away in...Mexico City. We slipped into the new St. Regis Hotel at the Diana fountain on Reforma, and enjoyed the double-glazed, room-serviced serenity within. We decided to become tourists for a long weekend and hit a few museums downtown, including the wondrous Museo del Arte Popular. It's four floors of fun but what really grabbed me was the ground floor exhibition of Mexico's history told in calavera dioramas. Artists had focused on a few of the country's most important milestones on its way to independence and made scenes with the skeletal figures familiar from Day of the Dead celebrations. Some of them were intricate, others just hilarious. I was drawn to this one, recounting the uprising against the French of Cinco de Mayo. It's a shame I don't have a James Cameron camera so you'll just have to believe me that this was a really fetching 3D arrangement made of plastic and cardboard. It gets the point across. Pardon the pun.
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