SWITCHING GEARS
“Museo Autoservicio” in Mexico City, 2020AS ELSEWHERE, the impact of social distancing on Mexico City’s artistic activity has been relentless. This year, the closest thing we have to the city’s annual Gallery Weekend, a hectic, weeklong affair canceled due to Covid-19, is the novel initiative “Museo Autoservicio” (Self-Service Museum). Conceived by curator and Mexican modern art scholar Daniel Garza Usabiaga, the project’s first outing, titled “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” and on through December 20, appoints itself (falsely) as “the first-ever drive-thru exhibition.” Installed in the underground parking lot of Antara Fashion Hall, a high-end shopping mall located across the street from Museo Jumex, works from twenty-two artists can be enjoyed from the comfort—and safety—of a car.