Without the collaboration between numerous institutions, including the Museo Frida Kahlo and the Mex

Without the collaboration between numerous institutions, including the Museo Frida Kahlo and the Mexican Government, our Frida Kahlo exhibition would not have been able to take place. This achievement continues the Brooklyn Museum’s long history of deep reciprocal relationships with the Mexican Government and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Our first Director, William H. Fox was part of the Committee on Fine Arts of the Mexico Society, corresponded with the Director del Museo Regional del Estada de Puebla, and supported our then curator’s many trips to Mexico. Our 1960 exhibition Ancient Art of the Americas, curated by Jane Powell, provided a great opportunity to strengthen our relationship with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. For that show, we participated in a mutual exchange; they loaned us works that critically strengthened the Mexican representation, and we loaned them many objects which enabled them to have a “permanent” exhibition of Native North American art. To learn more about our historic collaborations with Mexican Cultural Heritage Institutions, I encourage you to come do research in the Archives!Posted by J. E. Molly Seegers -- source link

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