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From ancient Mayan heads to modern video installations, the culture of Mexico is surging into the United States.
Over the next two years, and perhaps for a good deal longer, major Mexican art shows will be at American museums almost without interruption. There will also be many smaller shows, along with presentations of Mexican music, theater and dance in modern as well as traditional forms.
This new wave of cultural generosity supports the politics of President Vicente Fox, who favors closer relations between the United States and Mexico.
"It is not a coincidence," said Ignacio Duran, cultural minister at the Mexican Embassy here. "It’s a concerted effort. It has been under way for some time, but now it’s reaching a peak."
"Mexico considers this a very effective instrument," he said. "People who appreciate the culture of a country begin to identify with that country. I think it has a beneficial influence on policy." Since March the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston has been showing decorative and fine art from the period of Spanish rule over Mexico. It is a broad and revealing exhibition, with objects ranging from intricately carved furniture and silver candelabra to a vivid 18th-century portrait of a self-confident noblewoman. After this show closes in Houston on Aug. 4, it will travel to the Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Del., and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Next spring the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts here will stage a four-week festival of Mexican performers. In keeping with the image that Mexico now wants to promote, mariachi and Tex-Mex bands will share the program with modern dance companies, jazz ensembles, mime troupes and experimental theater.
From October 2003 until July 2004, a large and comprehensive show of Mayan art will be mounted in the United States, first in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and then at the National Gallery of Art here. Scores of other cultural programs sponsored at least partly by Mexican government agencies are under way or planned across the United States. Some are small in scale, like a literary and diplomatic reception that was recently held here to honor the late poet and philosopher Octavio Paz, who died in 1995. Others are highly ambitious, like a film festival that would trace the history of Mexican cinema through 120 movies from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1932 classic "Que Viva Mexico" to the current hit "Y Tu Mama Tambien.\
Which of the following is one of the main reasons why the culture of Mexico is surging into the United States