Although Day of the Dead is a long-standing tradition in Mexico, the holiday wasn’t celebrated widely or publicly among Latinos in the U.S. That changed in the 1970s and 1980s when artists and ...

This year, the 35-year-old is one of four Austin artists working on what could become the area’s newest Day of the Dead tradition: the placing of large, painted skulls in downtown Austin’s ...

Celebrations of the dead then synced up with All Saints Day, on Nov. 1, ending on Nov 2. While celebrations begin ramping up at the end of October, Mexican tradition says that on that night their ...

In late October, or so the tradition says, the souls of loved ones return from the afterlife to celebrate and spend time with living relatives on Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead ...

Over the years, the tradition has been the focus of the Disney film Coco. A Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City was also featured in a James Bond film, despite such a parade not actually ...