Chilean documentary filmmaker Daniel Osorio’s latest offering, El soltero de la familia (The Unmarried One in the Family), centers on the director himself, offering a defense of the unmarried life and a rebuttal to the claim that we need a spouse to be happy.
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Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arte is hosting a retrospective homage dedicated to the work of renowned artist Víctor Zapana Serna. Serna, who died in 1997, is known as one of the world’s most eminent practitioners of traditional Bolivian sculpture, and the new exhibit is meant not only to honor his work but also to underscore
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The Smithsonian Museum has awarded one of four prizes granted through its Artist Leadership Program to the Mexican textile artist Porfirio Gutiérrez.
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La Morera, a down-and-out neighborhood in Guatemala City bearing the scars of decades of neglect, has become the scene of a revitalization project spearheaded by residents, community organizers, and a group of socially-committed artists.
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Wendy Sulca, the singing sensation whose music videos went viral in her native Peru while she was still in her teens, has made her big-screen acting debut in a new Chilean movie entitled Coach.
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Mexico City’s Museo Universitario del Chopo is showcasing six new pieces by the artist Daniel Guzmán in an exhibit entitled Soup, cosmos & tears (named after a poem by Charles Bukowski). The pieces are aimed at inspiring “the spectator to think about the notion of mortality, to motivate him to reflect on the current instant,
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Farewell messages poured in after the death of the popular Argentine cartoonist, painter and sculptor.
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Bala Loca, the Chilevisión television series is addictive, compulsive, and impossible to stop watching, according to writer and filmmaker Alberto Fuguet. It is a series, he says, “full of bad faith, distilled rage and sarcasm; it’s vengeful, lying, vindictive and considers itself wrathful; it seems very good to me.”
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With over six thousand unique buttons in exhibition, the Destro Button Museum was opened to the public in July with a collection of buttons from five continents. With the help of her parents, Mauro and Tisla, Amanda Destro spent 3 years collecting buttons from Napoleonic France, both World Wars, and other historical periods.
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The Columbia University School of Journalism awarded journalist Óscar Martínez with the Maria Moors Cabot prize, making him the fifth Salvadoran to earn the award for excellence in Journalism. Martínez was also recently recognized with the International Press Freedom Award.
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