Latin American Art
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A Triptych as Compass
María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s triptych Red Composition illuminates paths forward through reflection and spiritual guidance
The Art of Action
PST ART exhibitions go all in for climate and environmental justice
River of Life
Carolina Caycedo collaborates with communities across the Americas to envision a fossil fuel–free future
Pottery Then and Now
Little has changed since antiquity, it turns out, when it comes to the best ways of shaping a bowl or firing a pot
New Book Explores How Pre-Hispanic Objects Went From Cultural Artifacts to Art
Getty volume reveals the untold stories of the looting and collecting of Mesoamerican antiquities
Alfredo Boulton: Listening to Venezuela
What does an exhibition sound like? From joropo and salsa to boleros and rock, this is the music of Alfredo Boulton
Dream of Darkness
A new video game looks to a 16th-century manuscript as source material
Competing Narratives on the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
What Is a Codex?
Basically, a big book
The “Scandalous Life” of Cesar Moro
Surrealist artist and poet Cesar Moro, a central figure in the early 20th-century avant-garde