Constanza Ontiveros Valdés

Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions

Over six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond

Gelman Collection controversy reaches Mexican courts

Legal proceedings seek to halt a long-term loan agreement authorised by Mexican authorities concerning works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and other national treasures

Undisturbed ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle

Minanbé, an intact site in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, sheds new light on the Maya Lowlands

Pre-Hispanic archaeological discovery in western Mexico features ‘unprecedented’ characteristics

Unique decorative and architectural elements may point to a previously unknown group in present-day Veracruz

At Mexico City’s Laboratorio Arte Alameda, restoration shapes artistic practice

A site-specific project emerges from the conservation of the museum’s 16th-century building

Green tuff, the stone that shaped Oaxaca’s historic centre, receives international heritage designation

Recognition by the International Union of Geological Sciences highlights how stone can reveal and preserve a city's material history

New textile museum in Mexico City celebrates Indigenous artistry

The new Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos frames textiles as living heritage and explores ethical collaboration

Shipwrecks linked to the ‘golden age of piracy’ discovered in the Bahamas

Three sunken pirate ships, one of which may have belonged to Henry Every, were recently found in Nassau Harbour

Mexico City museum with world's richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy

The Museo Dolores Olmedo is welcoming visitors again after a six-year-long closure during which plans were floated to relocate its prized collection

Chichén Itzá reopens after dispute with vendors that led to 13-day closure

A battle over new visitor facilities highlights tensions between tourism development and local livelihoods

Controversy resurfaces in Colombia over treasure-filled San José shipwreck

Allegations of looting and lack of transparency plague the contested galleon that sank in 1708 laden with gold, silver and emeralds

19th-century European weapons found in cenote in Mexico

More than 150 guns and an iron cannon were recently documented at the Síis Já cenote in Yucatán

Pedro Reyes’s new Lacma commission sparks criticism in Mexico

Mexican cultural figures say the Olmec-inspired sculpture reprises a work that was previously rejected in Mexico City

Mass shooting at Mexico's Teotihuacan archaeological site leaves one dead, 13 injured

A Canadian woman was killed in an attack from atop the Pyramid of the Moon allegedly linked to the “Columbine effect”

New Bienal de Yucatán to spotlight Mexican region’s growing art scene

The biennial will launch in November, anchored by Mérida’s rich community of artists, galleries and alternative spaces

1,000-year-old Toltec altar with four human skulls found in Mexico

Archaeologists discovered the site during salvage operations for the new Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail line

Mexico’s art community calls for greater transparency in management of treasured collection

More than 300 Mexican cultural professionals are calling for clarity surrounding the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo and others

500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered in Mexico City

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90

Beyond his famous chair design, Friedeberg created a singular world of ornament, architecture, and irony

19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan after 60-year search

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

Booksreview

The many faces and identities of Frida Kahlo are explored in exhibition catalogue

The book traces the Mexican artist’s extraordinary life and the commercial afterlife of her persona

Land ho! Remains of 19th-century schooner resurface on New Jersey coast

The area, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered

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

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade”

World Cup art initiatives go for goal in Mexico City

Ambitious cultural programme will accompany the 2026 Fifa World Cup tournament

Renowned Mexican art collection to be managed by Spanish bank

Banco Santander will take charge of 160 iconic works, including 18 by Frida Kahlo, from the Gelman Collection of 20th-century Mexican art

Celebrations at Mexico's Museo Experimental El Eco

The museum marks the 20th anniversary of its reopening with new commissions and Art Week performance

Guatemala’s Museo de Arte Colonial shut down by authorities

The court-ordered raid has resulted in the relocation of nearly 300 works of art, part of the nation’s premier colonial collection

Pioneering sculptor Geles Cabrera’s Mexico City retrospective marks centennial

The exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes traces the 99-year-old Mexican artist’s unique and dynamic approach to the human figure and highlights her work as a cultural organiser

Florida coin hoard worth $1m resurfaces debate over treasure hunting

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet

Beatriz González, indefatigable force in Colombian art, has died, aged 93

One of the most important Latin American artists of the 20th century, she influenced the direction of post-war painting and helped shape Colombia’s museums as a curator, educator and mentor