Each February, the international art world descends on Mexico City for what has become one of the most dynamic weeks on the global cultural calendar. The wonderfully art-obsessed all converge on a city that somehow manages to take itself very seriously and not seriously at all.

I have been part of this story since the early days. Now entering our tenth year of creating Mexico City Art Week programs, my team and I have had front row seats to the joyful chaos that inevitably unfolds when thousands of creative minds descend into one city.