A new exhibit entitled “Duelo,” featuring the work of the Mexican artist and activist Francisco Toledo, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. A meditative exploration of the violence that has been plaguing his country in recent years, the exhibit includes over a hundred artworks made in cast ceramic and
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“I was in a shopping center last Monday when a stranger threw himself to his death from an upper floor. It all happened in an instant: I heard a woman screaming, I saw people running desperately toward me. I approached the tumult where several curious people were impatiently observing the intense labor of medical personnel
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Arturo Menéndez’s new feature film La malacrianza (Rudeness) began life in October of 2008 when the director was approached by a stranger looking to tell him his story.
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A new Argentine discographic project is injecting new life into songs proscribed during the South American nation’s era of dictatorship.
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A plan to impose commercial development in and around the ancient Mexican city of Cholula is raising hackles among the nation’s archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and architects.
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A new play by the Uruguayan-Panamanian writer Alondra Badano hit the stage at the Teatro Anita Villalaz in Panama City during the last week of October. The play, entitled “Sospecha de sospecha” (Suspicion of Suspicion), explores the injustices of war and the hidden sufferings endured by women throughout the world.
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Just one month after its release, the movie Colombia Magia Salvaje (Colombia Wild Magic) has already garnered the distinction of being the biggest box office hit in the history of the South American nation’s film industry.
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Ecuadorian artist Joaquín Serrano’s new exhibit “Guayaquil Signos Urbanos” (Guayaquil, Urban Signs) is on display in the Galería Mirador at the Universidad Católica de Guayaquil.
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A newly published collection of essays and correspondence by deceased Mexican author Luis Villoro (1922-2014) entitled La alternativa: perspectivas y posibilidades de cambio (The Alternative: Perspectives and Possibilities of Change) offers a revealing look into the legendary iconoclast’s political philosophy.
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One of the most resounding successes at this year’s edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival (FIBA) was a new play written by Cuban author Rogelio Orizondo. The play, entitled Antigonón, fuses the Greek myth of Antigone together with two poems written by José Martí.
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