There are a number of historical and cultural questions that linger after viewing the Dallas Museum of Art’s new exhibition, The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico, which includes art and ...
Robert Graham’s sculpture of Quetzalcoatl in downtown San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez has always perplexed people who care about public art. It is a monument to the plumed serpent of native North ...
Here in Los Angeles the influence of Mexican culture is part of our everyday experience. The new exhibit at LACMA gives us a chance to see the origins of a culture that is part of our own. Children of ...
Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students, a two-week intensive course in journalism. Students in the program report and photograph ...
NMAICON copy gift of Emily Kaplan. 'Children of the Plumed Serpent' accompanies an unprecedented exhibition, the first systematic investigation of the social and cultural complexities of the late ...
Over at the Getty Villa, a fantastic hybrid sculpture is holding court in a powerful exhibition that explores the ancient Mediterranean goddess Aphrodite. Based on a lost Greek original, a 1st century ...
After time that could not be counted, the waters that covered the entire Earth began to recede. The sky became blue again, and the sun shone down once more upon the land. The gods watched from above ...