Ciclovia Mexico City

Today I was super Excited to get out with all my fellow riders. I read they close one of the main streets, Reforma, every Sunday so I wrote down how to get to Reforma, but it didn't matter. As soon as I got out on the streets, bike riders were passing by and I followed them knowing they would take me where I needed to go. As a bike rider it is a special feeling that the city would do this and it is also very freeing not having to dedicate so much thought while riding to cars. We cruised past beautiful monuments. 

Amazing Street Art. The city has a tons of street art and graffiti everywhere.

I like how these were blank canvases

It got warm out there so I thought it was great that these women put there dogs up in crates. I saw so many panting dogs and I felt like I even saw some of them try to trip up there owners just get them to stop for some rest.

I saw a beautiful clown                                                          and a community dance class, that tent is filled with people

We rode past La Lagunilla a Sunday market where you can get anything you're looking for. I stopped and picked up these paintings by Nicolas Lorenzo, he is not famous, but he should be. The streets to get out there are generally too congested for beginning riders. go out on Sunday Ciclavia and you'll be fine. RIP.

On my way back I stopped in the Bella Arte Museum, near downtown, free on Sundays.

There was an architecture exhibit on the third floor with some awesome models, you can even faintly above that little grey staircase in the center and the floor right above it the murals on the walls.

The details of the interior of this building are 
incredible (I'm trying not to use the word beautiful too many times)

And then we have the murals. I pieced them together, they have pillars blocking them. 

Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934
The painting was originally commissioned by Rockefeller Center in New York but because he refused to remove the image of Lenin they made him stop and painted over it. The title at that time was Man At The Crossroads.

I mean Rockefeller Center has this on their ceiling so uhh. No I get it it's a business thing. But Diego's artwork is so good, too bad for them.

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Then we have


Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, Liberacion, 1963
Also pieced together the best I could
Favorite acrylic painting ever (beside the one from my brother)

                            There's me riding home solo after a great day, love those squarish painted bikes.
                                                   Best way to get to learn my way around the city.