SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Donkey Show, an audio-visual exploration of the intersection of myth and reality in Tijuana, Mexico, opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and will be on view through April 16. The exhibition is guest curated by cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann and author and music critic Josh Kun. The exhibition runs in Project Room 1 concurrently with Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist, and in Project Room 2, Daniel Cummings: Recent Paintings. The Donkey Show is a blend of 200 rare tourist photographs, vintage nightlife ephemera, and pop songs. It explores American expectations, misconceptions, and fantasies of Mexico featuring two different donkeys—one actual, the other imaginary. Featured are tourist donkey cart photos from the early 1900s to the 1980s, alongside rare Tijuana nightlife, burles