Five years after starting to make and sell her colorful and creative party favorites from their ... back to her childhood in Mazatlan in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Piñatas, the extension ...

The art form has evolved from traditional ... It is all the more proof the Mexican and American zeitgeists refuse to imagine a birthday party or a Christmas posada without a jovial piñata ...

NPR's Alejandra Marquez Janse reports that in Mexico and in Mexican American ... of Popular Art in Mexico City. He says while there's no documentation about the origin of pinatas, oral history ...

In Mexico, it’s hard to go to a party ... art: You spray paint the wall but don’t expect it to be there in five years,” says Leigh Ann Thelmadatter, the Mexico City-based author of Mexican ...

LOS ANGELES — If you grew up in and around a Mexican or Mexican-American community ... piñatas are both a craft and an art form that reflect pop culture and politics. The shape-shifting ...

Piñatas are, of course, a staple of traditional Mexican culture that exist somewhere between artisanal craft and party decoration ... in the U.S., and about the art world in general.

What else could a Christmas party possibly need ... he felt like quitting but his fascination with the intricacy of the art form kept him going. "It made me think, 'Well anything could be a ...

"This was the meeting of two worlds," said Walther Boelsterly, director of Mexico City's Museum of Popular Art. "The pinata and the celebration were used as a mechanism to convert the native ...

For the record: 1:58 p.m. May 28, 2025This story describes a group show at the Denver Art Museum as being titled ... iconic landscapes of 19th century Mexican painter José María Velasco ...

But “Original Sin” isn’t just about an alleged cover-up that left the Democratic Party scrambling for a new candidate late in the election year. It’s also about a press corps that some ...