Gang members are turning to Santa Muerte to shield them from law enforcement and ensure the success of their operations.
Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...
Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte — a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their ...
"They stole children from other towns and sacrificed them in front of her (Santa Muerte) when they wanted to land a big hit," ...
On a recent morning, as jacarandas blossomed all around, a closed-for-installation notice hung on virtually every gallery ...
Mexico City’s contemporary art scene is growing rapidly. The number of museums is increasing—under Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration, several new public spaces opened in the ...
Photo © Miguel Eduardo Vargas 2023. On view at Material Art Fair. This week, collectors, curators, and artists from around the world have descended on Mexico City ...
MILAN — The sort of attention that Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo drew from the global art scene is back again. Mexico Art Week, which is anchored by main fair Zonamaco and closes Sunday ...
Inevitably, though, the talk of a trade war set nerves jangling at Zona Maco, the art fair in Mexico City, which opened on Wednesday. Ben Luke speaks to Ben Sutton, The Art Newspaper’s editor ...