Wickedly satirical art exhibition on death

If you didn't get enough of the macabre recently on Halloween or the Day of the Dead, a vibrant folk art show at the Prince Gong Mansion is keeping the spirit alive for a couple more weeks.

The Mexican embassy hosts Death Is Allowed (La Muerte Tiene Permiso), a show marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Jose Guadalupe Posada, an illustrator known for his wickedly satirical calaveras, or illustrations featuring skeletons. The artist used his graphic black-and-white art to aim sharp barbs at the excesses of the bourgeois life and the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

Trained as a teen in lithography and engraving, he began his career as a cartoonist with a newspaper called the Bumblebee - which reputedly closed after 11 issues because a Posada cartoon had offended a powerful local politician.