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 ...

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 ...

The collection, which has pieces going back to the 18th century, includes many small, handmade figures, masks, paintings, ceramics and textiles from throughout Mexico, drawing from varied folk art ...

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 ...

A good art museum is the repository of a large collection, some of which never see the light of day. The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is no different, and summer is traditionally a time when the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term "arte popular" was used publicly for the first time in 1921, one year after the end of the Mexican Revolution.Kahlo was not a folk artist, but that didn’t diminish her passion for it ...

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 ...

MILWAUKEE - Frida Fest is back at Farmhouse Paint Bar and Chucho’s Red Tacos and there’s plenty to see, buy, and taste! Brian ...