ALMAS (Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs) is hosting “The Olmec Legacy: Art, Culture, and Influence” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Nichols Library, 200 Jefferson Ave. in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Kimbell Art Museum announced Wednesday that it has acquired a statuette carved in jade from ancient Mesoamerica. “Standing ...

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model 3. (all photos by and courtesy the artist) The car was donated by Colima 71, a ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has announced today the acquisition of one of the most renowned sculptures from ancient Mesoamerica, an unqualified icon of Olmec civilization. Standing Figure Holding a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olmec culture deeply shaped later Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs. Danny Lehman/The Image Bank via Getty Images An ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the ...

"Proceedings of the symposium 'Olmec art and archaeology in Mesoamerica: social complexity in the formative period,' ... The symposium was held 19-21 September 1996 in Washington"--T.p. verso.

Fernando Ramirez allows himself to think big. He dreamed up an exhibition of alebrijes monumentales, larger-than-life, surreal creatures painted by Mexican artists at Cantigny Park in Wheaton. Ramirez ...

One of the most evocative pieces in the powerful Olmec exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington — and one most expressive of Olmec culture — is the statue of a priest holding a baby, “Las ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth announced Wednesday it has acquired a jade Olmec sculpture, one of the most renowned of ancient Mesoamerica. Standing Figure Holding a ...