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2022-05-022025-03-08 by David Hughes

The Mother and the Whore

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Last Thursday my wife Andrea Carney and I visited the Denver Art Museum to see the homegrown exhibition on the theme of La Malinche, nearly twenty years in the making.¹ This was our first door-darkening since Covid-19 hit. During that time, and for three years before, the museum had undergone a major renovation. A little history…

2021-01-252022-09-08 by David Hughes

The Old Normal

I was annoyed Tuesday when the Biden-Harris tribute to the 400,000 fallen included that old, mm…, warhorse “Amazing Grace.” I muttered to my wife Andrea Carney, “Well, as long as they don’t trot out ‘Hallelujah’…,” which of course they did. “Amazing Grace” showed up time and again during the inaugural spectacle. Continue reading “The Old Normal”

The exhibition curators Victoria Lyall, Terezita Romo, and Matthew Robb write in its catalog, “The origins of this project can be traced to the initial rehabilitations of Malinche by Chicana poets and scholars during the 1970s and 1980s” along with the 1992 Columbus Quincentenary and an exhibition in Austin, Rethinking La Malinche, among other precursors. Co-curator Terezita Romo’s essay “Malinche as Metaphor” in 2005 “provided the blueprint” for the present exhibition. Quoted from Victoria I. Lyall and Terezita Romo (eds.), Traitor, Savior, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, Denver and New Haven: Denver Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2022, 4.