Art
A Virtual Quilt of Remembrance for Mexico's Murdered Students
Last November, news from Mexico about the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Guerrero captured international attention.
Mexico
Art
In Mexico City, Graffiti Remembers the Disappeared
MEXICO CITY — Following the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College last September, enormous and sometimes violent protests broke out in the capital and continue today. The city’s art and public spaces have been caught in the conflict.
Art
The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and '70s Mexico
The lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and '70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back in shock as a skeleton delivers her a letter.
Art
Painting as Protest on Mexico's Walls
In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painted murals that powerfully illustrated the issues of their day. Today, street artists rule the nation’s walls.
Art
A Historic Manuscript on Aztec Life Is "Virtually Repatriated"
One of the major textual resources on pre-Columbian Mexico is now online in a digital platform launched this month.
Art
Kicking Back With a Mexican Gang Member
Cracking into challenging subcultures is one of Bronia Stewart’s main objectives as a documentary photographer.
Art
A Memorial to Mexico's Murdered 43
Like many, Nevada-based artist Javier Sanchez was shaken by the disappearance and state-sanctioned murder of the 43 Mexican students this fall.
News
Mexicans Burn Presidential Effigy in Protest
Rather than the usual parties and celebratory parades, many Mexicans marked Revolution Day last Thursday by protesting the massacre of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in a vividly symbolic way: burning effigies of their leaders.
Art
Artists Put Faces to the Missing Students of Mexico
When 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were “disappeared” by police on September 26, it didn't take long for residents of the town, and then the state of Guerrero, and then the nation at large to head to the streets to express their rage and sorrow
Opinion
Do Mexican Drug Lords Buy Art?
Art gallerists in Mexico are blaming slow business on an anti–money laundering law targeting drug lords, reports the Washington Post.
News
Two Imposing Maya Cities Uncovered in Southern Mexico
Last week, the research center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts announced that an archaeological expedition led by Ivan Sprajc has uncovered the remains of two Maya cities, Lagunita and Tamchen.
Opinion
Butterflies Make Art
Every winter, Monarch butterflies retreat to Central Mexico to spend the chilly months hibernating in the trees. But in the past decade, deforestation, pesticides, and climate change have threatened their journey.