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Xōchipilli overlooks Harrison Park in a towering painting by the artist SENKOE. He says rediscovering ancient stories helps people ‘reform what it is to be Mexican.’ ...
The faded red paint formed a well-preserved red circle, about 4 inches thick, experts said. Inside, the 3-foot-wide mural, found on three chapel walls, contained a plume of feathers, an ax, a wand ...
A museum exhibit displaying Aztec ritual offerings dug up from underneath downtown Mexico City opened on Friday in a first-ever showcase that offers new insight into pre-Hispanic art and religious ...
Earthquakes shook and damaged a former Catholic convent in central Mexico, but restoration efforts have led to an unexpected discovery. Underneath layers of paint on the walls of three open-air ...
On the front of the Pilsen building, which is used as a guest house by the National Museum of Mexican Art that oversees Yollocalli, there’s also an image of Quetzalcoatl, a Toltec and Aztec god ...
Many things that most U. S. gallery-goers don’t know about Mexican art are told this week in a book, MacKinley Helm’s Modern Mexican Painters (Harper; $5). The Western Hemisphere has produced ...
A pre-Columbian wall painting discovered in a convent in Tepotzlán could shed light on the relationship between Mexico’s Indigenous inhabitants and the Catholic church, which sought to control ...
Ranking of the top 16 things to do in Mexico City. Travelers favorites include #1 Museo Nacional de Antropología, #2 Bosque de Chapultepec and more.