Arleene Correa Valencia, Alejandro Cartegena and Nanci Amaka present unforgettable work at Catharine Clark Gallery.

The LA-based artist is the subject of a solo show at the Ringling Museum after winning the $30,000 Hermitage Greenfield Prize.

The Codex Mendoza contains a section that details the tributes received by Moctezuma II, who ruled Tenochtitlan between 1502 and 1520. From the 400 cities under his control, he received a plethora ...

Carlos Chavez, 40, has been Mexico’s No. 1 musician ever since he wrote a ballet in 1921 for radical, art-loving Secretary of Education Jose Vasconcelos. In 1928 he began building the Orquesta ...

Particularly targeted were the Aztec codices, stories recorded onto long sheets of fig-bark paper — known in Mexico as amatl — and primarily pictorial in nature.

John Higareda, a past participant in veterans court, created a copy of the Codex Borgia in acrylic paint, an ancient Aztec calendar. The Aztec calendar had 20-day months for a 260-day calendar.

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.

In the vast expanse of literary history, certain tomes stand out not just for their content, but for the air of mystery that surrounds them. From ancient scripts unreadable by modern scholars to ...

San Andrés Tetepilco, one of the original 15 settlements of present-day Iztapalapa, was situated on the southeast side of Mexico City—formerly Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital. The first codex ...

The Florentine Codex, written nearly 500 years ago, continues to reveal hidden secrets and share knowledge about the Indigenous peoples who experienced the fall of Tenochtitlan in the 16th century. It ...