1. What was Octavio Paz's relationship to the painters known as La Ruptura?

2. Who was the Ruptura's theorists?

3. Who was the painter who inspired the new generation of artists?

4. How can the new painting of the 50s be seen as the opposite of the Mexican School of Art? How does this opposition relate to the Local/Global theme?

5. How were the new murals different?

6. How did the new painters deal with the human figure and the landscape? What was "The Cactus Curtain"?

7. What happened at the 1965 National Award for Art ceremony?

8. How did the Ruptura generation anticipate postmodernity?

9. In what way can it be said that postmodern concepts threaten traditional social and political structures?

10. How does Vicente Rojo play with cultural signs to destabilize them?

11. What is the difference between a sign and a mark?

12. How does Arnaldo Coen dialogue with the I Ching in his "Mutations"?

13. Who is Mario Lavista? How did he collaborate with Arnaldo Coen on Mutations?

14. How does Coen and Lavista's "Cage" combine art forms? Why can it be said that "Cage" is a global dialogue?

15. What does García Ponce mean by a Tradition of Rupture?

16. How does Juan García Ponce's stand on being born a Mexican echo Octavio Paz's position on National Character?

17. How did Mathias Goeritz reshape the landscape of Mexico City?

10. What were some of the projects the Government undertook to prepare for the Mexican Olympics? How did the Cultural Olympics turn the "Local" into a "Global" stage?

11. How did Pani's Nonoalco-Tlatelolco Housing project serve as a national allegory?

12. What projects were carried out to modernize Chapultepec Park? How was the Local/Global dialogue played out in the space of the park?

13. How did Legorreta's Camino Real hotel combine art and architecture?

14. What was the 1968 Student Movement about? What did it have in common with the Ruptura artists? How was the Movement itself a space of local/global dialogue?

15. How did the Mexican government respond to the student movement?

16. How did Tlatelolco become a different National Allegory on Oct. 2, 1968?

17. How the Mexican government try to refashion Mexican society after the crisis of 1968?

18. What is the Sculptural Space? What is the art at the middle of the Space made of?

19. What was "Mexico, Splendor of Thirty Centuries"?

20. How did it compare to the New York exhibit in 1940?

21. How does Roger Bartra define the following terms?

a. Official Culture

b. National Identity

22. What does Bartra see as the danger for artists in the context of Mexico's manipulation of national culture?

23. How does Museum Culture relate to World Fairism and the Olympics?

24. What has happened recently to the "Caballito" monument on Reforma Avenue?

25. What happened on Jan. 1, 1994 that surprised Mexicans?

26. Who is Subcomandante Marcos?

27. How does the Zapatista revolt perform the Local/Global dialogue?