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 ...

The Aztec rulers often expressed their power with body modification, such as labrets pierced through the lower lip. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a spectacular example of this ...

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 ...

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 ...