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A view of the Esplanade at Fair Park from Jessica Thompson, Manager of Teen Programs.
Last Tuesday was our sixth annual Education Fair Day, a chance to escape the chill of the Museum for some deep-fried fun in the sun at the State Fair of Texas. For some, like Jessica Thompson, going to the Fair is a time-honored tradition. Jessica’s paid a visit to Big Tex nearly every year of her life. For others, like our McDermott Interns, it was a super-sized introduction to a slice of Texas history and culture.
Emily Wiskera and I tackled the trip together. While we chowed down on Fletcher’s corny dogs (a must!), admired the blue ribbons in the creative arts building, and searched for our favorite haunted house ride, I started wondering about what connections could be made between the fair and the DMA. A set of photographs recently installed in the Center for Creative Connections certainly provides some fair feels, but what about elsewhere in the Museum?
State and World’s Fairs
Official 2016 State Fair of Texas poster, image from http://bigtex.com/2016theme/
Hemisfair, San Antonio, 1968, Robert Indiana, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Tucker Willis, © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The above pair of posters was an easy co
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Caridad Mercader
Spanish communist militant and Soviet agent
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is del Río and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.
Eustacia María Caridad del Río Hernández[a] (29 March 1892 – 1975), better known as Caridad del Río, Caridad Mercader or Caritat Mercader, was a Spanish communist militant and an agent of the Soviet NKVD. She is also known for being the mother of Ramón Mercader, the assassin of Leon Trotsky, and for having personally participated in the operation.
Caridad Mercader belonged to a wealthy family from Barcelona of Indiano origin[b] (term applied to a Spaniard who emigrated to the Americas who later returned to Spain enriched) in the early 20th century. She married Pablo Mercader, a member of Barcelona's industrial upper class, from whom she took the name (Spanish women do not normally take their husbands' surnames), and with whom she had five children. After the end of her marriage to Pablo Mercader, she moved away from her family and permanently turned her back on the social class they represented. This decision was motivated in part by an episode of forced institutionalization during which she was subjected to electroshock therapy and her former husband's at