Jardín del Arte Sullivan, Outdoor art market in San Rafael, Mexico City, Mexico.
Jardín del Arte Sullivan is an outdoor art market in the San Rafael neighborhood of Mexico City, held every Sunday in Sullivan Park. Works on display include paintings, sculptures, etchings, and photographs made with oils, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, and other techniques.
In the 1950s, art students from a collective called 23 Escalones began showing their work outside conventional gallery spaces in the park. The Asociación Jardín del Arte was then founded in 1959 to give the gathering an official structure and set professional standards for participants.
The market takes place in Sullivan Park, a green square in the San Rafael neighborhood that fills with paintings and sculptures every Sunday. Visitors can talk directly with the artists and hear about how each work was made.
The market runs on Sundays only, so a visit needs to be planned around that day. The park has enough open space to walk comfortably from one stand to the next, and it helps to arrive without rush to spend time with each artist.
The association has its own rules that ban reproductions and exclude certain subjects entirely from the market. This means every work sold there has been made by hand by the person standing next to it, which is rare for an open-air market of this size.
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