Plaza San Jacinto
Colonial square turned Saturday art market, filled with painters, sculptors and artisans.
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This guide to Plaza San Jacinto in Mexico City traces the Saturday art market back to 1960, when twenty artisans set up shop nearby at the invitation of an American couple, Wendell Riggs and Cynthia Sargent, who wanted craftspeople selling straight to buyers instead of through a factory. It follows the market's move to this colonial square in 1965, and three young ceramicists who once sold from these same stalls entering an international competition in Paris, judged, unexpectedly, by Pablo Picasso.
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