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4 days ago

Picasso's Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | Maria Ramirez

Guernica, Picasso's most famous painting, depicted the horrors inflicted on civilians during the bombing of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish civil war.
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fromwww.archdaily.com
5 days ago

House of Light Oaxaca / T804 Arquitectura e Interiorismo Estrategico

Casa Luz is an architectural intervention in Oaxaca that emphasizes local context through materiality, light, and craftsmanship.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
5 days ago

House of Light Oaxaca / T804 Arquitectura e Interiorismo Estrategico

Casa Luz is an architectural intervention in Oaxaca that emphasizes local context through materiality, light, and craftsmanship.
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fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery

Archaeologists discovered 16 pre-Hispanic artworks along a high-speed train route in Mexico, prompting a reroute to preserve the site.
#cesar-chavez
fromKqed
1 week ago
Mission District

What's the Future of the Many Cesar Chavez Murals in San Francisco? | KQED

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1 week ago

What's the Future of the Many Cesar Chavez Murals in San Francisco? | KQED

Public sentiment is shifting against murals of Cesar Chavez due to recent abuse allegations, leading to calls for their removal.
Photography
fromBOOOOOOOM!
2 weeks ago

"You can't enter the same river twice" by Photographer Francisco Gonzalez Camacho

Francisco Gonzalez Camacho's work explores impermanence and transformation through photography and graphic printing methods.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project

Chauvet developed 'Zapatos Rojos,' which takes the form of dozens or hundreds of pairs of red shoes publicly displayed in site-specific formations. Each pair of shoes connotes the absence of a femicide victim, or a disappeared woman or girl.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

Criselda Vasquez's father was detained by ICE, prompting a GoFundMe campaign to support his legal fees and lost wages.
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fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Video: The Aching Power of Abraham Vazquez

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Mexican art world protests over plan to send Frida Kahlo masterpieces to Spain

The export of a significant Mexican art collection to Spain has caused outrage among cultural professionals in Mexico.
Madrid food
fromcooking.nytimes.com
1 month ago

In Mexico, Bread Is the Heart of Daily Life

Mexico maintains a centuries-old baking culture with 60,000 panaderias providing fresh bread as a daily standard, not a luxury, deeply embedded in economic, social, and cultural life.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

with a pavilion crafted through collective embroidery, izaskun chinchilla tests urban utopia

Utopian thinking emerges through small-scale collective craft practices like embroidery rather than ambitious masterplans, creating tangible contributions to better communities.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Frida, Diego, and Raphael

The largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the U.S. opened at The Met, showcasing 170 works over eight years.
Renovation
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

two intersecting volumes of black concrete carve mavra house into the mexican landscape

Casa Mavra in Valle de Bravo features two angular black concrete volumes designed by TAC Taller Alberto Calleja, organized as intersecting forms that connect interior spaces with the surrounding landscape through continuous walls and controlled openings.
#gelman-collection
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Juan Usle's Childhood Shipwrecks

Juan Uslé's retrospective at Museo Reina Sofía showcases his evolution from a traumatic childhood memory to a vibrant artistic career.
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fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

20 Best Things to Do in Oaxaca, Mexico-From Savoring Mole and Mezcal to Exploring Indigenous Art

Oaxaca offers Indigenous heritage, world-class cuisine featuring mole and mezcal, colonial architecture, traditional crafts, and legendary street food experiences.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The underground odyssey that led archaeologists to a Zapotec burial site

Looting revealed a hidden Zapotec Tomb of the Owl near La Cantera, which took six years to locate and links to the ancient Zapotec civilization.
fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago

You Can Soon Visit Clase Azul's First-ever Cultural House in Mexico City-Here's What to Expect

Spirits brand Clase Azul México will soon open a brand-new home in the city's Polanco area on Feb. 17, offering guided tastings, rotating art installations, private events, and more. The new address, dubbed "Casa de Los Leones," or House of the Lions, was built in a historic mansion where original elements like stained glassed windows were preserved, juxtaposed with contemporary design.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The new life of hand-painted signs in Mexico

Sign painting in Mexico City has surged in popularity following the removal of street signs, leading to increased interest and new opportunities for artists.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

rootstudio's oaxaca bus stops feature cut metal panels inspired by local histories

RootStudio proposes an alternative, where the waiting period becomes a spatial condition worthy of design attention. Each intervention is organized around a continuous roof supported by a rhythmic structural frame. The canopy provides shade and shelter from rain while defining a perimeter for waiting without enclosing it. The architecture reads as a measured gesture within an intense urban setting.
Miscellaneous
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Ornate 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico

"At Monte Albán alone, more than 200 tombs of varying size and decoration reflect social, political and economic differences among the ancient Zapotecs," Javier Urcid, an anthropology professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, tells The Art Newspaper. "Built beneath residences, tombs were reused over generations-with additional burials and occasional changes to offerings or decoration. The inscribed genealogies verified membership in family lineages."
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Shakira shatters Zocalo attendance record: The love and friendship I have with Mexico is incomparable'

Shakira performed a free concert at Mexico City's Zocalo plaza, attracting over 400,000 fans in a record-breaking event that celebrated her two-decade relationship with Mexican audiences.
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fromTasting Table
2 months ago

Step Aside Taco Bell, This Dish Is The Real Mexican Pizza - Tasting Table

The Mexican Pizza has been a Taco Bell fan favorite since it was first introduced to the menu back in 1985 - though it went by a different name back then, the Pizzazz Pizza. In its current form at the fast food chain, this dish consists of two layers of crisp flour tortillas with refried beans and seasoned ground beef sandwiched in the middle, and "Mexican Pizza Sauce," melted cheese, and diced tomatoes on top.
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fromArtforum
1 month ago

A Hard Sell: on Mexican art in the age of austerity

Mexico's Fourth Transformation government has drastically cut arts funding and framed contemporary art as elitist, forcing private initiatives to sustain public cultural institutions.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

cast in red-pigmented concrete, la cacaotera museum celebrates cacao heritage in mexico

The project was undertaken by the collaborative team of Laboratorio Regional de Arquitectura, Taller | Mauricio Rocha, and Samuele Xompero after the demolition of the building that once housed the National Union of Cacao Producers, and which had suffered severe structural damage. The building's architecture incorporates the formal memory of its predecessor, but with a new program dedicated to showcasing the transformation of cacao into chocolate.
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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 months ago

1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb found in southern Mexico

A 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb with exceptionally preserved murals, reliefs, and ritual iconography was unearthed in Oaxaca, offering new insights into Zapotec ancestor worship and hierarchy.
#mexico-city
fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago
Travel

Mexico City was ranked the world's most culturally rich destination, thanks to its museums, galleries, and iconic institutions like Casa Azul.

fromTravel + Leisure
2 months ago
Travel

Mexico City was ranked the world's most culturally rich destination, thanks to its museums, galleries, and iconic institutions like Casa Azul.

Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

luis barragan's la cuadra san cristobal reopens to the public with two exhibitions in mexico

La Cuadra, Luis Barragán's 1968 equestrian complex, reopens as a public cultural campus under Fernando Romero's direction, launching with exhibitions dedicated to Barragán and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Music
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

In the Mexican state of Oaxaca, a music school keeps children away from violence

The Santa Cecilia School of Musical Initiation transformed a garbage-filled community in Oaxaca into a cultural hub offering music education and university opportunities through sustained community effort.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

'Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way' Convenes 58 Artists to Survey Contemporary Latinx Painting

Let Us Gather In a Flourishing Way showcases contemporary Latinx painting through diverse artists and themes, emphasizing community and cultural convergence.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Goya's last mystery is called Rosario Weiss

Goya's Black Paintings inspired Sergio del Molino's book exploring the artist's legacy through the story of Rosario Weiss, the daughter of Leocadia Zorrilla who became Goya's student and artistic heir.
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fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortes

The art world lost several influential figures this week, including the inventor of the iconic Hand Chair, a Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of Colombia's national museum.
fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Oscar Murillo: "el pozo de agua" @ kurimanzutto, Mexico City

OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society. A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo's practice.
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fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Beatriz Gonzalez - Barbican Art Gallery Review

Beatriz González was a groundbreaking Colombian artist whose work explored power, grief, and memory through painting, sculpture, assemblages, and installations spanning six decades.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Ingrid Hernandez Reveals Tijuana's Hidden Beauty

Ingrid Hernández photographs Tijuana's squatter settlements, revealing material links to the United States and the city's complex socio-economic realities.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Judith F. Baca: Great Wall of Los Angeles: The 1970s- A Decade of Defiance and Dreams @ Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

The Great Wall of Los Angeles expands to depict 1970s Indigenous reclamation, prison and campus uprisings, Chicano antiwar protests, and art's role in testimony.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Domingo Zapata Is Painting the World's Largest Mural in Saudi Arabia

As an artist, having the freedom to create without boundaries is incredibly rare. That's why I reference the Sistine Chapel-not to compare myself to Michelangelo, but to evoke that moment in history when an artist was entrusted with complete creative freedom to interpret humanity as it was understood at the time,
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fromArtforum
1 month ago

Zero Hour

Margarita Paksa's 1970s video and media work positioned the viewer's body as central to experiencing art as communicative situations, using synthesizers, mirrors, and environmental installations to explore perception and containment.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week

Taking over the colourful Casa Gilardi, Luis Barragán's last commissioned residence, built for the advertising executive Francisco Gilardi in the mid-1970s, the German artist Gregor Hildebrandt transforms the house's stylish rooms with an ever-expanding exhibition of his enigmatic works across various media. Known for transforming outmoded analogue recording media-including audio cassettes, VHS tapes and vinyl records-into paintings, sculptures and large-scale installations, the Berlin-based artist's conceptual works explore themes of memory, nostalgia and the physical representation of intangible sound and sight.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Zigzags and Curves: Sarah Crowner @ Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City

Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City is pleased to present Zigzags and Curves, an exhibition by Sarah Crowner that brings together her sustained research into geometry, abstraction, and the expanded language of painting. Presented across two sites - the gallery's Mexico City space and Casa Roja in Lomas de Chapultepec-the exhibition takes its title from the fundamental graphic elements that structure Crowner's visual vocabulary: the zigzag and the curve.
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fromColossal
2 months ago

Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Madrid named world's best city for street art for its 425 masterpieces'

Murfin's 'Ninos Perdidos I' in Fuenlabrada won third place in the Best of 2025 Street Art Awards; Madrid named world's top street art city.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Marigold Santos Takes Root

The only thing most people know about epiphytes, if they know about them at all, is that they're rootless. That's not quite true - they develop highly specialized root systems adapted to wherever they land. In Epiphytic Elucidations at Patel Brown Gallery, Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos takes this fact as more than a metaphor. The exhibition uses epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants without harming them - as a framework for the expansive ways diasporas form through material labor.
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fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Public art powerhouse: Inside Monterey County's scrappy arts movement

Sand City sits just two miles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, yet until this month, visitors couldn't spend the night in town. For decades, this half-square-mile town wedged between Costco and Highway 1 has been hiding in plain sight - a warehouse district turned open-air art gallery, where murals climb concrete walls and sculptors work in spaces that once stored industrial equipment.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent

On January 22, artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo filed a founding affidavit in the High Court of South Africa in Pretoria, stating their intention to challenge South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie's unilateral decision to terminate the video and performance series, Elegy, at its national pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. McKenzie had attempted to characterize Goliath's piece, which would have centered Palestinians enduring genocide in Gaza, as "highly divisive" and not aligned with South Africa's interests - even though the country famously brought a legal case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over allegations of genocide in Gaza.
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