CHICAGO -- An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador Hernan ...

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When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

The Napa Valley’s newest outdoor artwork will showcase a thread of its community far older than its grapevines — or even its state or nation. Nearing completion on the wall of a Napa building is a ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is no document of civilisation that is not at the same time a document of barbarism," said Walter Benjamin, German critic, ...

When a historic tunnel was discovered on the outskirts of Mexico City two years ago, the government decided to turn the archaeological site into a tourist attraction. But that plan has become a ...