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For Día De Los Muertos, Remembering Those Lost To The Coronavirus

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago does an annual exhibit for the Day of the Dead. This year, it's centered on those who have died — and will die — in the pandemic.
<em>Catrina Reyna</em> (Fancy Lady Queen) by José Alfonso Soteno Fernández and Juan José Soteno Elias of Metepec, Mexico, 2016, polychrome ceramic and wire.

On Sunday and Monday, families across Mexico, the U.S. and elsewhere are observing Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday that celebrates the lives and honors the memory of those who've passed on.

And each year, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has a special exhibition for the holiday.

But the coronavirus pandemic has made the usual

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