Podcast — Episode 28

Globalization and the Baroque: A Conversation with Jorge Alberto Lozoya

Jorge Alberto Lozoya

Our guest on this episode is Ambassador Jorge Alberto Lozoya, the inaugural director of the International Museum of the Baroque in Puebla, Mexico.

In Part 1:

Does the return of the baroque in contemporary culture imply a cyclical, as opposed to linear, concept of history? Asian vs. European ideas of history (2:15) — Trans-Pacific trade from the Manila galleon to the present (5:30) — The peculiar Western fascination with individual artists and writers (8:00) — Regional varieties of the baroque: Puebla vs. Spain and Italy (11:45) — Bishop Palafox and the Biblioteca Palafoxiana (13:00) — Similarities between Mexican and Southeast Asian styles (14:45) — Catholicism in Asia (17:00 — Taking the Greyhound bus from Mexico City to New York, aged fifteen (18:30) and resolving to become a diplomat (20:30)

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In Part 2:

How would you respond to someone who criticizes globalization as merely a kind of “Yankee imperialism”? (0:25) — How Russian visits to Western supermarkets led to the downfall of the Soviet empire (5:05) — The 21st-century return of religion: Hungary, Brazil, Mexico (8:00) — Cervantes, Shakespeare, Mozart: a universal culture (13:15) —  Cosmopolitan dialogues: Gabriel Orozco, Octavio Paz, Sor Juana (17:30) —  What should people in the U.S. read to better understand Mexico? (20:30) — What to do after retiring from a long and distinguished career (24:00)

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Recorded on September 26, 2019 at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, UT Dallas.

Ambassador Lozoya visited UT Dallas to receive the 2019 Brettell Award in the Arts.

The Athenaeum Review podcast is produced by Creative Disturbance.

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