The story behind the ambitious exhibition "We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art" at LACMA.

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Archaeologists have hypothesized that these sculptures were created by an ancient Mesoamerican culture called the Olmecs. Often referred to as the “mother” culture of later Mesoamerican civilizations ...

The following are known genres and functions of indigenous Mesoamerican literatures. Three major subjects of Mesoamerican literatures can be identified: The epigrapher David Stuart writes about the ...

With the start of another semester comes a new exhibit at James Reynolds Student Art Gallery in the MSC. Kathy Sosa, a mixed media artist from San Antonio, presents her Mesoamerican-inspired art in a ...

Faculty in Mesoamerican Studies come from a variety of departments at California State Unversity, Los Angeles including Archaeology, Art History, Chicano Studies, and English. The following is a list ...

Woman with a Bird Cage combines Rufino Tamayo’s deep appreciation of ancient Mesoamerican art with his interest in Cubism, the 20th-century abstract art movement created by artists Pablo Picasso and ...

In Mesoamerican myth a variety of reasons are given for the occurrence of the flood: either the world was simply very old and needed to be renewed; the humans had neglected their duty to adore the ...

The Mesoamerican Languages Project at the Linguistics Research Center began in 1978. Researchers have included Frances Karttunen (Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya), Robert Amsler and Robert Bley-Vroman ...

Trained as an art historian, anthropologist, and archaeologist, she specializes in ancient Mesoamerican art, architecture, and ritual performance with a particular focus on the cosmology of the ...

Yet most research focuses on later manifestations of urbanism in Mesoamerica, thereby perpetuating the fallacy that Mesoamerican cities developed relatively late in comparison to urban centers in the ...

The Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretches 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. The latest ...