Discover a free Chicago museum in Illinois showcasing 3,600 years of Mexican and Mexican-American art in one unforgettable ...

While some see alebrijes as Mexican spirit animals, similar to a Native American totem, others say these famous Oaxacan wood ...

Both spectacular and controversial, major Mexican art owned by Natasha and Jacques Gelman will be exhibited in Mexico City ...

The manifesto that appeared in Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just ...

Want to know more about the Alebrijes of Mexico? While some see alebrijes as Mexican spirit animals, similar to a Native American totem, others say these famous wood carvings are little more than ...

With tensions high in the Pilsen neighborhood amid immigration crackdowns, art is offering a way for community members to unite and celebrate Mexican culture. The National Museum of Mexican Art opened ...

Every so often, the Metropolitan Museum of Art not only reasserts but redefines what it truly means to operate as an encyclopedic museum on the world stage. Such is the case with its striking ...

Only in Mexico did the colonizers of the New World find an art as deeply rooted as Europe’s. It was an art that had had 3,000 years to grow, nourished in settled, rich and leisurely societies ...

Long before the rank-and-file rabble elevated Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to Mexican Idol status, Friends of Mexican Art (fondly referred to as FOMA) knew that Mexican fine and folk art were ...

Studio Saturday weaving at the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) in Chicago (photo by Beto de Frietas, courtesy NMMA) America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by ...

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- América : Mexican muralism and art in the United States, 1925-1945 / Barbara Haskell -- Plates: Romantic nationalism and the myth of revolution -- Orozco on the coasts - ...