via The Metropolitan Museum of Art PATRICIA ESCÁRCEGA In that broadsheet, the big Mexican newspapers of the day are represented by Posada as skeletons, or calaveras, racing on bicycles around a ...
A giant skeleton has "emerged" from a street in the Tlahuac neighbourhood of Mexico City. Much to the delight of local children, the sculpture has been placed in the city street ahead of the Day ...
Hundreds of people dressed up as skeletons to take part in a parade ... the name given to an elegant skeletal figure popular in Mexican culture. The event, held in the run-up to the Day of the ...
On display through January, the exhibit features works by printmaking masters José Guadalupe Posada, Diego Rivera and José ...
The Catrina, or elegant skeleton, was created by Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913), a Mexican cartoonist illustrator and artist whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and ...
The Grand Procession of the Catrinas, part of upcoming Day of the Dead celebrations, was held in Mexico City. The Calavera Catrina, or 'Dapper Skeleton', is the most representative image of the ...
His ubiquitous, jocular skeletons and calaveras (human skulls ... bring an underknown and underappreciated chapter of Mexican ...
Scientists spent three years studying the remains where they lay before deciding it was safe to bring the skeleton to the surface for further study, according to the Mexican National Institute for ...