A Mexican Painter Changed by the City, Changes Art “In New York, I went berserk over painting,” said Rufino Tamayo, whose works are now on view in a new retrospective ...

Anthropologist Peter T. Furst was working on his PhD in western Mexico in the mid-1960s when he discovered the vibrant yarn paintings of the Wixáritari people, commonly referred to as the Huichol ...

It was an agonizingly tough decision, given the competition, but we finally decided we're partial to a true Mexican folk art mural gracing the west side of MJ Mini Mart, a combo carnicería ...

La Sirena Mexican Folk Art has been bringing Mexican culture to Manhattan residents for over 20 years. The store closed in March 2020 and has experienced a series of financial burdens as a result ...

One of Kahlo's most enigmatic paintings, "Girl with a Death Mask (She Plays Alone)," from 1938, reveals her mature ability to fuse folk and surreal art in the haunting oil painting of a child in a ...

Displaying a collection of Mexican folk art built over the decades since HemisFair requires a special house. Margaret and Fred Schellenberg knew immediately when they found the right one ...

Houston's Casa Ramirez doesn't just peddle Mexican folk art; they also offer lectures on Mexican culture and traditions by visiting artists and authors, many of whom live in town.

Judith Hurst has constant reminders of working in and visiting foreign countries, the paintings she bought as souvenirs from Egypt, Slovenia, Mexico, Germany and elsewhere brighten the white walls ...

Prominent in her art are images of Mexican sugar skulls and the Virgin Mary, as well as animals such as cats, peacocks and roosters. Briya’s pursuit of her art is relatively recent, dating back ...

Few 89-year-olds have their retirement-home birthday covered by the local newspaper, but Peter Rodriguez isn’t your average 89-year-old. The artist founded San Francisco’s Mexican Museum and ...