In the United States, the art made in Spain’s Latin American colonies used to be considered artistically minor and politically incorrect. Now, as intellectual trends coincide with demographic realities, it’s on the cutting edge of art history—and the wish lists of top museums.

Three millennia, 350 objects, and one national identity are featured in an ambitious show at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Spending Shabbat with the Jewish community in Iquitos, Peru.

Machu Picchu, Yale, and the world stage.

Unpacking a luxury trip to Machu Picchu.

There are reasons that the Chachapoyas region of northern Peru—where orchids seem to pop from every crevice, and spectacular cliffside tombs reign over verdant valley—is one of its least visited.