Mayan NYC is a community within New York City’s Mexican, Guatemalan and Belizean communities.
Mayan Civilization is one of the great civilizations of the Americas. It began around 2,600 BC. Though academics claim it ended with Spanish contact, the people and culture live on in Chiapas and the Guatemala highlands.
On the Day of the Dead, May You Always be Remembered
Saturday-Monday, October 31 – November 2, 2020
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The Brooklyn Museum is Reopening
Saturday, September 12
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
New York City’s leading Mexican folkloric dance organization has a touring company, a dance school and does arts in education programs. This company is so good, they should be on Broadway.
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National Museum of the American Indian
Daily
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC
This branch of the Smithsonian presents amazing bilingual exhibitions
FREE
Tribeca Film Festival 2019
TRIBECA, NYC | Daily Apr 24 – May 5, 2019 | Film festival | Argentine, Bolivian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Honduran, Indigenous, Mayan, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Spanish and more stories
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture
July 13 – September 30, 2018
Closed Tuesdays
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Whitney Museum
Meatpacking District, Manhattan
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See how Indigenous cosmology suggests architecture which defines home and life itself
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Tierra, the pre-Columbian Latin American Landscape
June 28 – September 15, 2018
THROCKMORTON FINE ART
Midtown East, NYC
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: The House at Kawinal at the New Museum
Literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories in this Guatemalan performance art installation and sculpture exhibition.
New Museum
Lower East Side, Manhattan
June 6 – September 9, 2018
Closed Mondays
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Enrique Chagoya ‘Then and Now: Aliens Sans Frontières’
George Adams Gallery
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
April 26 – June 23, 2018
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The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García
Acquavella Galleries
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Monday – Saturday
April 12 – May 25, 2018
EXTENDED
June 29, 2018
64th Winter Antiques Show (2018) is America’s premiere antiques show
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
between 66th & 67th St
Upper East Side, Manhattan
PREVIEW
Thursday, January 18, 2018
SHOW
January 19 – 28, 2018
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Josef Albers in Mexico shows his inspirations from Aztec, Maya, & Inca art
Nov 3, 2017 – Feb 18, 2018
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The curator shows how Albers’ travel in Mexico profoundly influenced one of the great teachers of American contemporary artists, bringing Mayan motifs into contemporary art
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Sotheby’s Brings Pre-Columbian Antiquities to Market
Mexican, Peruvian, and Chilean antiquities are on sale in the Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas auction, Mon, May 15, 2017
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CocoaDíos
A high-energy immersive experience of the ancient Mesoamerican legend of how chocolate came to earth
at the House of Yes, Brooklyn May 5-21, 2016
Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy III Wacah Chan’ at El Museo
Saturday, February 6, 2016
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
New York’s Mexican Mayan circus theater tells the story of “Wacah Chan,” the Mayan snake with two faces
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Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy II Kuxan Sum’ at El Museo
EAST HARLEM, Jan 9, 2016 ~ “Kuxan Sum” is the living umbilical cord that connects the spiritual realms. Meet conquistador Cortés and the native woman La Malinche who changed the direction of American history.
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Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy I Soul of the Maya’ at El Museo
December 12, 2015
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
La Virgen de Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, makes a surprise appearance on her feast day
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Cerámica de los Ancestros: Central America’s Past Revealed
April 18, 2015 – May 20, 2018
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National Museum of the American Indian
Financial District, Manhattan
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Central American heritage
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Sergio Hernandez ~ Popol Vuh
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Mexican artist Sergio Hernández inspired by the “Popol Vuh” at the Mexican Cultural Institute’s Galeria Octavio Paz.
La Peregrina, Love and Death in Mexico
Thursday, October 18, 2012
MURRAY HILL, NYC ~ A new book about an American journalist who loved Mexico at the Mexican Cultural Institute
