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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 that authorities have 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

The road to ‘Fridamania’: how Frida Kahlo became a global phenomenon

A new show will explore the Mexican artist's complex personality and her rise to fame over the past 50 years

France and Mexico trade loans of colonial codices, putting spotlight on calls for restitution

The historic exchange between libraries in Paris and Mexico City is tied to the 200th anniversary of bilateral relations between the countries

Mexico City's giant Modernist mosaics face uncertain future

Public murals, sculptures and reliefs from the 1950s that adorned an earthquake-damaged building are now in storage

Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz nurtures connections across geography and history

In its largest edition yet, the biennial frames art as an “arboreal metaphor” for exchange, resistance and resilience

Art Toronto reflects Canadian art scene’s emphasis on Indigenous representation

Canada’s largest art fair spotlights a growing market for work by Indigenous artists while challenging stereotypes and expectations

Art Toronto gives Latin American artists pride of place with new curated section

Amid trade war between US and Canada, Toronto’s largest art fair strengthens ties with Latin America’s art scene

New Frida Kahlo museum, focused on the artist's youth and family life, opens in Mexico City

Museo Casa Kahlo is located a short walk from the popular Casa Azul museum in the Coyoacán neighbourhood, in a home long owned by members of the Kahlo family

Outrage over heritage listing of temple in Mexico tied to sex-abuse scandal

La Luz del Mundo’s flagship church in Guadalajara is a unique structure, but should architectural value (and politics) override ethical concerns?

Mexico City’s major art museums closed amid union dispute

The two-day closure earlier this month stemmed from a structural crisis in Mexico’s cultural sector

Mexico City’s Muac damaged during anti-gentrification protest

A rising movement calls for housing reform in Mexico’s largest and most expensive city, but vandalism by disruptive groups has weakened its cause

500km-long Indigenous pilgrimage route in Mexico joins Unesco World Heritage list

Mexico’s first inscription of a living Indigenous tradition highlights Wixárika cultural traditions following decades of advocacy

700 Years of Tenochtitlan (again): Mexico honours its pre-Hispanic capital

The Mexica city’s founding is celebrated with new commemorations, reinforcing a nationalist focus on Indigenous identity