{"id":39293,"date":"2026-01-01T00:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bad-bunny-gets-backlash-from-mexican-cultural-authorities-for-touching-museum-artifact\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:40:54","slug":"bad-bunny-gets-backlash-from-mexican-cultural-authorities-for-touching-museum-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bad-bunny-gets-backlash-from-mexican-cultural-authorities-for-touching-museum-artifact\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Bunny Gets Backlash from Mexican Cultural Authorities for Touching Museum\u00a0Artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBad Bunny struck a nerve, rather than a chord, after touching an artifact on display at a Mexico City archaeology museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Saturday, Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a public scolding of the musician for allegedly placing his hands on a stela, a type of carved stone sculpture central to Mayan culture. According to INAH and fan accounts, the Puerto Rican singer, whose full name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, posted an image on Instagram showing a hooded figure\u2014presumably himself\u2014touching the artifact at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. As first reported by\u00a0<em>Hyperallergic<\/em>, the post appears to have since been deleted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAs it is public knowledge, physical contact with archaeological property is prohibited,\u201d INAH said in a statement, adding that the musician had been warned repeatedly by security staff to maintain a distance from the display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhen the artist placed his hand on the stela, museum security reiterated that the pieces could not be touched,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBad Bunny is currently preparing to do the halftime show at next year\u2019s Super Bowl. His most recent album, <em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em>, was among the most acclaimed albums of 2025; an accompanying concert tour also received praise.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Bunny struck a nerve, rather than a chord, after touching an artifact on display at a Mexico City archaeology museum. On Saturday, Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) issued a public scolding of the musician for allegedly placing his hands on a stela, a type of carved stone sculpture central to Mayan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 12:12:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}