“Murales temporales”
Galería Karen Huber
What? An all-male show about mural painting? Really? I wondered if “Murales temporales” (Temporary Murals) was a deliberate effort to keep with the gentlemen-only tradition of twentieth-century Mexican muralism. But even so, I couldn’t think of a decent reason for a team of three curators (Andrea Bustillos, Karen Huber, and Alejandro Romero) to put together a show about a whole genre of painting that leaves women artists out. In any case, the show was pretty indulgent, taking muralism and its long history in Mexico and relocating it within a gallery space to question ideas of permanence, ownership,