Mexico

Unearthing the Secrets of Color

How artist Sandy Rodriguez uses a 16th-century manuscript as contemporary inspiration

Kim N. Richter | January 13, 2021

A seminal manuscript tells the Indigenous side of a historic battle

A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World.

Archival detective work will shed light on the pre-Hispanic past.

Annelisa Stephan | November 14, 2019

Creative thinking to inspire the future development of Latin American cities.

Ilaria Mazzoleni | December 18, 2017

Explore the idea of luxury in pre-Columbian America.

A conversation with artist and illustrator Zeke Peña about the making of a graphic biography of Graciela Iturbide's life.

Sarah Waldorf | November 21, 2017

A Mesoamerican insect once created a precious commodity.

Technicolor visions of the universe by Wixárika artists at the Fowler Museum.

Callie Enlow | September 13, 2016

Julius Shulman photographs the Yucatan, mecca for the midcentury consumer.

Robert J. Kett | January 12, 2015

Maps document the cultural encounters of the Spanish Conquest.

Kim N. Richter | December 5, 2013

"A feeling of surprise, even disbelief, that someone so unique could have remained unknown to us for so long."

Annette Leddy | February 11, 2013