In the 1920s, the Mexican government, newly formed after the recent revolution, started to employ painters for public art ...

Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.

Michelle Gialanze, 56, Artist ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of ...

With the death of Diego Rivera in Mexico City last week at 70 ... one of architecture’s more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly ...

T he MS -13 gang member who cuts my hair knows all the best used-book shops in Mexico City. His most recent recommendation was a cavernous, two-floor store just down the street from the Coyoacán ...

Many of the best tamales in the South Bay are found at food trucks — like the wonderful Tamales Juanita and Tamales Cassandra ...

Mexico City boasts four UNESCO World Heritage sites and more than 650 museums that appeal to all interests and tastes; from the renowned Museum of Anthropology to buildings proudly displaying ...

MEXICO CITY (JTA ... Another highlight of the space is a massive mural created by Fanny Rabel, a student of the famed painter Diego Rivera. Painted in 1957, it reads from right to left ...

Best known as a minimalist who introduced pigments into designs, Barragán built the house in Mexico, in 1948 to feature a ...