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.

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.

Julio Barragán Saucedo arranged 14 cuecas, a traditional Bolivian dance, to be performed by five lyrical singers, three musicians, 16 dancers and a narrator.

Doctor Sarah Parcak will lead a project to investigate and protect the archaeological heritage of the Peruvian coast using satellite images processed with sophisticated computer programs.

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of painter Julio Galán (1959-2006), the Center for the Arts of Parque Fundadora will hold a retrospective of the artist’s work until August 28th.

Valentín Javier Diment’s latest effort in Argentina’s film industry continues his trend of exploration into darker subject matter.

Nearly two-dozen artifacts from a landlocked country in South America that have been kept in a basement in Germany for two generations will finally be returned to the country in which they were initially discovered.

A statue honoring Nicaragua’s most beloved national figure has been standing for nearly a decade in another country, even though the face of the statue looks nothing like the poet it attempts to portray.  Confidencial Magazine of Nicaragua’s Verónica Díaz reported of a mysterious sculpture honoring the poet Ruben Darío that looks more like a

A once immensely successful exporter of television to the rest of the world, Colombia now looks to regain its previous prestige in world media. 

Chile’s most important institution for contemporary art was dealt a major defeat last month, upon the announcement of a new art center that would receive more funding and be established in the same city.