Mexico
Savoring Puebla
Mexico's "City of Angels" is home to gilded churches, artistic treasures and a delectable culinary culture
December 2009 |
By Francine Prose
Day of the Iguanas
On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
September 2008 |
By Lynell George
Mexico
Mexico is among the richest Latin American countries in traditions, formed by the fusion of the Spanish culture—present in everything from architecture to language, from Talavera tile-making to the Catholic religion—layered on to the already complex, sophisticated and luxurious map of indigenous Mesoamerica.
November 06, 2007 |
By Smithsonian.com
The Real Frida Kahlo
A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter's private life
September 01, 2007 |
By Julia Kaganskiy
Students of the Game
When the Aztec and Maya played it 500 to 1,000 years ago, the losers sometimes lost their heads—literally. Today scholars are visiting remote Mexican villages to study the oldest sport in the Americas, ulama, now on the verge of extinction
April 2006 |
By John Fox
Dream Weavers
In the Mexican village of Teotitlán, gifted artisans create a future from bright hand-loomed rugs
November 01, 2003 |
By Bruce Selcraig
Frida Kahlo
The Mexican artist's myriad faces, stranger-than-fiction biography and powerful paintings come to vivid life in a new film
November 2002 |
By Phyllis Tuchman
