We’ve seen lots of renditions of Selena over the years, from the mural on the Alamo Candy building off Hildebrand Avenue to her image appearing on the Google home screen. But a new Aztec-inspired ...
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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is no document of civilisation that is not at the same time a document of barbarism," said Walter Benjamin, German critic, ...
CHICAGO (AP) _ An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever on Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador ...
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A 1,200-pound stone head of an Aztec moon goddess has moved into the Getty Villa. So have life-size statues of a warrior adorned with eagle feathers, a duck-billed wind god and a demon known as the ...
The exhibitions of ancient art that pass through New York, especially those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, often have a High Church atmosphere. Scholar-monks add to the storehouse of knowledge as ...
The essay, whose insight derives from a unique combination of sympathy and horror, was published in English translation in 1986 as Extinct America in the art-theoretical journal October, and ...
SECRETS OF THE DEAD: THE AZTEC MASSACRE. Wednesday night at 8, Ch. 13. Mexico‘s Aztecs have always been portrayed as one of the doormats when Europeans took over the New World. According to what ...