SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego presents the exhibit Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana. The exhibit celebrates the recent revolution in music, visual arts, architecture, and cinema that has transformed cultural production in this city. At a seminal moment in Tijuana�s history, this exhibition offers an in-depth look at the work of some of the city�s most important artists by placing it within the context of work made in and about Tijuana over the course of the past thirty-five years. The exhibition, with its accompanying catalogue, situates Tijuana within broader intellectual debates about the status of the metropolis, while it provokes questions about the connections between art and urbanism, and examines how Tijuana�s art and artists use the specifities of place to transcend the local.

Tijuana is a cultural hot spot. Journalists and cultural critics now recognize the city as a site of exciting innovation in music and the visual arts. As early as 1989, scholars began to describe Tijuana as a laboratory of post modernity, citing the city�s pervasive spirit of experimentation as on par with that of New York City. Since that time, the city�s exciting diversity of artistic production has flourished and now encompasses work as varied as art made with traditional media-such as painting and printmaking; installation and conceptual art; photography and digitally-derived images; street-level video and ambitious feature films; utopian architectural proposals and streamlines economic housing design. The city�s artists have begun to be included in international exhibitions as the city�s native sound, Nortec, regularly tops the charts in Central and South America as well as Europe and Asia. As the city�s newest art weekly recently announced, �Tijuana moves and it�s everywhere.�