This landmark agreement makes public one of the most important

The late Rex May was a successful graphic designer, best known for creating San Francisco’s 49-Mile Drive logo. He was also an avid collector of Mexican art, giving his collection to the Mexican Museum in 2001.

“An Inspired Gift: The Rex May Collection of Popular Art” is on display at the museum until next year. It contains some 400 masks, paintings, ceramic figurines and other pieces, arranged to evoke the feeling of how they looked when they occupied May’s Victorian home.Home energy management  It’s a refreshing approach.

“If you think of the Mexican sensitivities to color, line and form, this is a plethora of visual delight,” says David de la Torre, the museum’s director. “This is an opportunity to experience that in all its glory.”

A dozen red and yellow parrots are perched on top of one cabinet, grouped together as May would have done. Two look as if they might be kissing, the others appear to be observing the scene below. Home power monitor The scene is far more interesting than if May had spaced them evenly apart.

Visitors will enjoy looking at shelves filled with colorful figures, from a 19th-century carved figure of baby Jesus to Day of the Dead sculptures. Above the entrance to the gallery are wonderful animal masks made of bamboo and canvas.

“It begs to ask, why do people collect things?” de la Torre says. “When they collect things, how far can they go?”

May grew up in a poor family in Texas and was discouraged from going to the Mexican neighborhoods in town. As an adult he fell in love with vibrant Mexican folk art, making numerous trips to add to his collection. He also ran a popular Christmas store on Sacramento Street, selling treasures he gathered on his world travels.

The National Constitution Center has signed an agreement to display one of 12 surviving copies of the historic document.

The agreement, with the New York Public Library, calls for display of the Bill of Rights to start in Fall 2014 and last three years.

It will be the first Pennsylvania museum to offer public display of the document.

The document was signed by Vice President John Adams in 1789 and dispatched to President George Washington to consider for ratification.

The New York Public Library acquired the document in 1896. It last displayed the document several years ago. For preservation reasons, it has never displayed the document for an extended period.

“This landmark agreement makes public one of the most important documents in the nation’s history, Power monitor Power monitor an over 200-year-old, original copy of the Bill of Rights,” said New York Public Library President Tony Marx. “The document has been expertly preserved at the Library for over a century, leaving it in prime condition and ready to inspire and educate the public now and in the future.”