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Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery
Archaeologists found 16 drawings and petroglyphs along the route of a forthcoming high-speed passenger train.
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Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project
Elina Chauvet says her "Red Shoes" installation was staged in Bucharest without her knowledge or name.
Art Review
Ingrid Hernández Reveals Tijuana’s Hidden Beauty
Often seen as too American to be Mexican, too Mexican to be American, the city is presented by the artist as it is, not as anyone assumes it might be.
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Bad Bunny Scolded for Touching Ancient Art at Mexican Museum
The singer and rapper posted a photo of himself with his hand on a carved stone stele at the National Museum of Anthropology.
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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.