Museo Andrés Blaisten

Considered an important collection of Mexican Art from the first half of the Twentieth Century, it includes works dating from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, as well as colonial paintings from Andrés Blaisten¿s private collection. It can be currently seen as a virtual museum, sponsored by the foundation of the same name. Divided into several periods or themes, like museum galleries, the collection covers from Modernism to the Avant-Garde and includes works by Ángel Zárraga, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Diego Rivera, Carlos Mérida and Rufino Tamayo, among others. Other works by greatly important artists can be seen in From Country to City, Dialogs and Proposals, Contemporary Art I and II, Painting of New Spain, and Temporary Exhibition. A book on the collection, published by UNAM in 2005 with the title Arte Moderno de México, Colección Andrés Blaisten, was presented recently. The book includes essays by James Oles, Fausto Ramírez, Agustín Arteaga, Adriana Zavala, Dawn Ades, Mireida Velázquez, and Renata Blaisten, among others. For more information, visit www.museoblaisten.com