Video: Exploring the Maya world in Teobert Maler’s footsteps

In the quiet municipality of Hopelchén, a recent wedding defied the usual patterns of social life in the region.  Katarina, a young woman from the local Mennonite community, married Camilo, a man identified as a chenero, from Hopelchén.  The event captured the community’s attention not for its extravagance but for its rarity.  To understand why…

As the world turns its eyes to Mexico as a co-host of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Rosas, through his brand Mexclart, is proposing a different kind of trophy: the recovery of a spiritual connection to the past.

She’s 93, still making art, and now on the guest list for a major new event in Mexico’s southeast. Yoko Ono is among 75 artists announced for the Bienal de Yucatán, the first large-scale international contemporary art biennial in Mexico — set to open in Mérida this November. No specific date for her appearance in…

Built in the 1990s, the Mérida–Cancún toll highway remains the fastest way to drive to and from the two most important cities in the Yucatán Peninsula. But taking the toll highway bypasses several towns that once thrived but now have few hotels, restaurants, or interesting stops. The good news is that as the toll-free road…

New operating rules that took effect Wednesday open the door for privately run museums in the city of Mérida to apply for annual subsidies of up to MX$600,000 (about US$30,000) from the Yucatán state government — though there’s a catch: this year’s entire budget was already spent before the rules were even published. Yucatán’s Secretaría…