Mexico City
Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico
The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery
The limits of transnational women’s solidarity in Mexico City’s art scene
Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics
Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will no longer become a public museum
The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it
Frida Kahlo museum clarifies that Madonna did not visit and try on the artist's clothes
Madonna may have tried on Kahlo's clothes during a previous visit to her family home
Collector Eugenio López Alonso on his museum’s tenth anniversary and Mexico City’s rising profile in the art world
Visitors to the city during Zona Maco can also take in Museo Jumex’s anniversary group show, curated by New Museum director Lisa Philips
How Mexico City’s art scene and its biggest fair, Zona Maco, have grown over 20 years
The biggest art fair in Latin America is marking a significant milestone while showcasing the booming local scene
Outcry over Mexico City’s plan to replace guerrilla ‘anti-monument’ to victims of gender violence with replica of pre-hispanic statue
After an earlier plan for a new sculpture by artist Pedro Reyes was roundly rejected, the municipal government said it had received activists’ blessing to replace the protest monument that stood in its place
Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija on honouring Mexican pottery traditions—and the intoxicating inspiration of psychoactive drinks
An exhibition in Mexico City explores the artist’s years-long investigation of Oaxacan vessels made for the consumption of mezcal and pulque
The smoocher’s guide to repatriation: a Mexican artist is using his tongue to draw attention to looting of his country’s heritage
Following a string of auction sales of ancient artefacts from Mexico, artist Pepx Romero is taking measures into his own lips
Ceremonial starfish offerings unearthed at Aztec temple in Mexico City
The ‘precious relics’ discovered at Templo Mayor link Aztec cosmology to the sea
Music festivals, mezcal bars and moderate price points: Zona Maco spearheads lively marquee art week in Mexico City
The week’s calendar of events is chock-full of parties and openings, and features a new local mini-fair
Future of one of Mexico’s most important collections uncertain as parent company put up for sale
La Colección Banamex, which numbers more than 6,000 works including pieces by Frida Kahlo and Clemente Orozco, belongs to a bank that Citigroup is offloading
Sofía Táboas takes the temperature of the Jumex collection
The artist guest curated a collection exhibition at Museo Jumex dealing with nature and man-made environments, and explores related themes in a concurrent show of her own works
Campeche, a new gallery in Mexico City, champions underrepresented artists in a country dominated by 'machismo'
"We are trying to build a programme that will be very female and queer oriented... that might be difficult for a Mexican audience, but it has to happen,” founder says
Mexico City galleries come together for homegrown Zonamaco Art Week
Despite postponing the traditional art fair, organisers found a way to hold shows and create a sense of occasion
At home with the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington's Mexico City house and studio to open to the public
University-led project prepares artist's home of 65 years and its 8,000 objects for guided tours starting later this year
Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul vies for Guinness World Record with concert by 97-year-old drummer this weekend
Legendary musician Tino Contreras says he looks forward to setting up his drum kit among pre-Colombian sculptures in the patio garden for live-streamed event
Mexico City’s planned cultural complex in Chapultepec Park loses architect
While local activists have long resisted the $440m project, especially at a time when the country’s existing museums are in crisis, the city’s governor recently rejected a design for ambitious pedestrian bridge that did not meet technical criteria
Mexico City's galleries overcome growing pains as the city's art scene booms
As top-tier dealers and collectors continue to flock to Zona Maco, Material Art Fair nurtures a needed mid-level market
New cultural centre opens at Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City
And third Mexican collector loans his art to university
Sunday in Chapultepec Park with Carsten Höller
The artist’s interactive exhibition at Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo encourages visitors to explore, take drugs and dream, but is it more than just another “art experience”?
Smaller sales platforms spotlight artists without gallery representation during Mexico City’s fair week
Spaces like Salón ACME and Cinco Pisos en el Quinto offer a more ‘empathetic model’ as the region’s art market grows
Fair report: Local galleries fare well at Zona Maco, Mexico City
International collectors and curators were out in force for the eighth edition of the Latin American art fair
Interview with Francis Alÿs: “Each situation calls for a new answer”
The artist on running inside tornadoes, failing to sabotage the art market and the appeal of Mexico City
Leading collector plans contemporary art space in Mexico City
The museum will be drawn from the Jumex Foundation's 2,000 works
Mexico’s two biggest collectors join forces to form new cultural compound in Mexico city
Eugenio Lopez Alonso’s Jumex Collection is to open a building near Carlos Slim Helú’s new Soumaya Museum
Damien Hirst conquers Mexico: the biggest collectors in the country are lining up to buy new work by the British artist
Other pieces, including a new version of the shark in a tank, have sold to Korea and the US