Today on Museum Bites we’re suiting up for battle in Part 2 of our look at headgear. Whether it be for fire or foe, some of the more unusual helmets and hats I’ve come across in my travels were created for combat.
La Malinche
Today on Museum Bites we’re taking a closer look at La Malinche (mah-LEEN-cheh), the mother of modern Mexico. A controversial figure with a complicated past, artists and historians have grappled with her portrayal. Is she the mother of a new nation? A traitor to her people? Or a survivor of the violent world in which she lived? Mexican painter, Jorge González Camarena’s La Pareja (1964) is one interpretation. Join me as we take a tour of this powerful portrait, but first a little background…