The Mexican visual artist, cartoonist and director of the Adult and Education programs of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Pablo Helguera, tested positive for coronavirus in New York, his place of residence and city that has been an epicenter of infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the United States.
Although the also curator of international projection has not made the announcement official, he confirmed it himself through his social networks through a conversation with friends and colleagues. However, Helguera has remained active on his social networks, sharing information and series of critical and humorous cartoons about the art world that, among other works, have made him a benchmark of the guild in the world.
Pablo Helguera has not been the only Mexican artist who has contracted the virus in the Big Apple. The Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer also tested positive for Covid-19, as he himself confirmed last week through his public accounts, adding that he was most likely infected while working on the installation of a series of pieces. for the art fair The Armory Show, in the first days of March.
The same happened with the celebrated recorder and conductor Horacio Franco, who, to the credulity of the public about the pandemic, made public knowledge that he had tested positive for the coronavirus that he contracted, he said, during a work tour in New York.
“More than 17 days ago, in New York, where I was playing, playing concerts, nobody knew what was going to happen to them. Everyone thought that it was not going to get them there and they were with the smallest measures. Today in Mexico, we already know how they are there. It is important that you stay at home, that you understand that the only ones who can stop the virus are us. It is important that we protect ourselves. The virus exists, let’s protect ourselves from it, ”Franco argued in a video shared on March 28.
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