This summer and fall, Naperville is shining a spotlight on Latin American culture. And at the crux of celebration is a pair of hand-painted colossal heads. Over the next few months, Naperville ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired “Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby,” an Olmec statue from 900–300 B.C. Olmec statues profoundly influenced the art and culture of later ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.

"[David] Rockefeller himself established this place, and he's the one who moved the [Olmec artifacts]." For both artists, the extraction of art to the United States is where this show begins ...

The distinctive toothless, down-turned mouth and infant-like face are typical of Olmec art. The ears are perforated and the mask may have originally been decorated with piercings. On either side ...

(City of Naperville) ALMAS, the Alliance of Latinos Motivating Action in the Suburbs, will join with other community organizations in presenting “The Olmec Legacy: Art, Culture and Influence ...

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 ...

Last Monday, March 11, artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone ... Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires.

The Olmec heads, statues, masks, reliefs, and other artwork at the de Young are jarring artifacts that date back around 3,000 years when a pre-Mayan/pre-Aztec people populated what is now southeast ...

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 ...

He tells of a forgotten people, the Olmec and the extraordinary masks. Show more Neil MacGregor, in his history of mankind as told through objects at the British Museum, selects a miniature mask ...