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Dazed Mix: Lao

For his exclusive Dazed mix, the NAAFI founder shares an hour of mostly unreleased dance edits influenced by jungle and rave

Feb 14, 2024

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Day Zero, a dance festival set deep in the heart of the Mexican jungle

‘There’s something very magical here’: Set against a backdrop of ancient Mayan ruins, the festival showcases some of the best electronic music that the country has to offer

Feb 02, 2024

James Greig

Mayan Toledano’s dreamy portraits of Mexico City’s queer community

No Mames is the new photo book portraying the everyday life and fantasy world of Mexico City’s LGBTQ+ community

Oct 11, 2023

Millen Brown-Ewens

Mexico has just decriminalised abortion across the country

‘No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker, will be able to be punished for abortion’

Sep 07, 2023

Alyshea Wharton

‘They call me Lanita’: Unpacking Mexico’s undying love for Lana Del Rey

From the visuals in her short film Tropico to her nickname ‘Lanita’, Lana has always had a unique affinity with Latino and Mexican culture

Aug 23, 2023

Stephanie Castaneda

Marcel Alcalá, The Performance of Being (2023)

Marcel Alcalá’s paintings fuse reality TV, queer nightlife and El Greco

Marcel Alcalá‘s latest exhibition The Performance of Being explores the fantasy of a queer utopia

Mar 17, 2023

Millen Brown-Ewens

‘Everything is mystical’: a very important investigation of Maya elves

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has proof that the cheeky woodland sprites exist, but is it too good to be true?

Mar 01, 2023

Thom Waite

La Tianguis Sexo Disidente: the radical, queer, Mexican flea market

This grassroots community of creatives and activists are defiant in the face of Mexico’s hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community

Dec 23, 2022

Lily Bonesso

Vuse

The artist capturing the heritage of Vuse and the McLaren Formula 1 Team

From a modest home studio to a larger-than-life sculpture at the prestigious McLaren HQ, Vuse and The McLaren F1 Team’s Driven by Change programme celebrates an emerging artist celebrating a traditional form of Mexican folk art

Oct 28, 2022

Meth Math’s apocalyptic reggaeton is the stuff of club nightmares

We catch up with the Mexican trio ahead of their New York Boiler Room show, alongside the likes of Bladee and Eartheater

Jul 18, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

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Inside Mexico City’s community-centred House of Vans hub

This month, four unsigned artists were given the opportunity to perform with Jessie Reyez and Yungblud at the new venue

Apr 07, 2022

Natty Kasambala

The experimental artist fusing ancient Mayan flutes and machine learning

Mexican-American musician Debit talks her ambitious second album The Long Count, reimagining ancient Mayan wind instruments, and DJing for Azealia Banks

Mar 15, 2022

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Frida in the Library of the Blue House (c. 1949)

An intimate glimpse at Frida Kahlo’s Blue House and all its treasures

Frida Kahlo: Her Universe is a fascinating archive of personal objects and photographs from La Casa Azul, where the artist was born, lived, and died

Dec 26, 2021

Emily Dinsdale

Frida Kahlo, “Diego y yo” (“Diego and Me”, 1949)

Frida Kahlo gets the ‘ultimate revenge’ over cheating husband

Frida Kahlo’s painting depicting the emotional distress inflicted by her adulterous husband, Diego Rivera, has now beaten the record previously set by his artwork at auction