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Mexican Artist Decries “Censorship” of Queer Nun and Priest Portraits
Fabián Cháirez’s exhibition in Mexico City was suspended on a judge’s orders after the Association of Christian Lawyers filed a legal complaint.
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Philip Guston Mural Warning Against Fascism Restored in Mexico
“The Struggle Against Terrorism” (1934–35) was originally met with mixed reactions and censored for decades.
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Ancient Maya City Discovered in Southeastern Mexico
Archaeologists derived the findings from data collected in 2013 as part of a forest-monitoring survey.
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Plans to Turn Leonora Carrington’s Home Into a Museum Scrapped
The house and studio in Mexico City will now serve as a “documentation center,” according to the building’s owner, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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Well-Preserved Maya Warrior Bust Unearthed in Mexico
The statue head was found during construction for the Maya Train, which has sparked controversy amongst scientists and Indigenous communities in the region.
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Gabriel García Márquez’s Mexico Home Is Now an Art Space
La Casa de la Literatura García Márquez is a strange and wonderful new gallery for Mexico City’s ever-changing contemporary arts scene.
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Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
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Row Over “Anti-Monument” in Mexico Ends in Victory for Feminist Activists
Local government has agreed to let a guerrilla artwork honoring Mexico's femicide victims stand in the place of a dismantled Christopher Columbus statue.
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Ancient Maya City Discovered in Mexican Jungle
The ruins are dispersed throughout 125 acres of dense vegetation inside the Balamkú ecological reserve.
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On Being Black in Mexico
How might the average Mexican visitor might perceive Frida Orupabo’s Fear of Fear, in a country where Afro-Mexicans make up roughly 2% of the population?
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Mexico’s “Most Sought-After” Olmec Artifact Heads Home
The ancient statue, a “key piece for investigations of Olmec iconography,” is being repatriated by the United States.
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Did Diego Rivera Help Frida Kahlo Take Her Own Life?
So claims a grandson of Rivera in a new documentary, but scholars remain skeptical.