If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. When we think of the annual L.A. County Fair, which kicks off this Friday, it’s often things ...

The featured artist this year is the famed Mexican 20th century modernist Rufino Tamayo, who is best known for his paintings and murals but also produced printed works, some of which will be on ...

“I have an obsession with Mexicanity,” said artist Paloma Contreras Lomas on a phone call from her CDMX studio earlier this spring. “It’s an obsession with the way history and contemporary violence ...

Women on the Wire : Izquierdo's images of circus performers -- Saints and Goddesses : Kahlo's appropriations of religious iconography in her self-portraits -- Revitalizing the past : precolumbian ...

Contemporary Mexico City is a bit like early-aughts Berlin: a chaotic yet profoundly mystical metropolis where syncretism and modernity coexist in perfect harmony. Its arts scene, far from being ...

A cubist still life was held at the border for special examination, on the chance that it might be a plan of the Panama Canal. Rumors flew that five other pictures had been lost. Opening dates were ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Frida Kahlo’s “El sueño (La cama)” — in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — is causing a stir among art historians as its estimated $40 million to $60 million price tag would make it ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — It often seems like the world is made up of pairs: Christo and Jean Claude, Hall and Oates, peanut butter and jelly. Yet some things that seem like they'd fit well together have ...