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Arleene Correa Valencia, Alejandro Cartegena and Nanci Amaka present unforgettable work at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Combining classic cartoon style with the Aztec codex, Menchaca has created a visual allegory equating self-sacrifice with border issues in the large front windows of Artpace. “It's based on the ...
AZTEC LIFE ILLUSTRATED; Significance of the Exhibit of Ancient Mexican Art. MYSTERY OF THE CODICES As Represented in American Museum, Scholars May Decipher Them -- Forbidding Sacrificial Stones.
‘The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire,’ Getty Villa, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, (310) 440-7300, through July 5. Admission: Free, tickets required. Parking: $15.
Page from the Aztec codex Matrícula de Tributos (History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo). Before the Spanish arrived in 1519, the highest officials of the Aztec Empire could count on the ...
The Florentine Codex is a manifestation of what Latin America is today: a blend of indigenous, European, African, and global voices that creates new forms of expression.
San Antonio artist Estevan Arredondo creates his organic shapes for paintings such as "flim flam o" "intuitively," he says, sometimes looking to the Aztec codex or Native American art for inspiration.
The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology is presenting a large exhibition of 44 codices for its show, “Codices of Mexico: Memories and Wisdom”, presenting artifacts from a fascinating time ...
When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the ...
The 1542 Codex Mendoza, dating to just 20 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, is a thorough report on Aztec society, from daily life to culture and rituals.