Colombia’s Museo Nacional opened an exhibition that highlights the early work of highly acclaimed painter Fernando Botero.

Vergüenza, a new Movistar series, is perhaps “the most revolutionary series ever premiered.” 

At the end of the 18th century, the isolation of Santafé de Bogotá from the imperial commercial circuits made it a small, relatively poor city.

A manuscript by composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, previously considered lost, was found after decades in Brasilia.

The Colombian art institute, Fundación BAT, has debuted the first in a series of eleven exhibits showcasing various forms of pop art.

Big changes are coming to Buenos Aires’ modern dance scene.

Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa presents a series of chilling tales in his new book, Prisons of Invention (Cárceles de invención).  The eight narrations are built around the image of the prisoner and from that angle can be read as a composition of variations on the same subject.

There is a new exhibition at the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico that showcases the transformation Latin American cities have gone through since the colonial period until the 19th century.

–Researched and written by Jessica Sulima—  The Gramado Film Festival, taking place from August 17th to the 25th, is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, a small tourist town in the south of Brazil.

Octavio Paz’s wife, Marie-Jo, who was the inspiration of his Nobel Prize for Literature, died on July 26th in her house in Polanco, Mexico City. Authorities and lawyers of Marie-Jo are reviewing the documentation on the rights to the poet’s work.