Due to deteriorating conditions, the Reina Torres de Arauz Anthropological Museum in Panama took down its permanent collection in 2010, and closed for restoration in 2013.

In its 49th anniversary, the Movie Festival exposed the stories of the different forgotten minorities such as small rural workers, indigenous communities, and women.

An exhibition in Mexico City entitled “Correspondencias… Archivos y fondos del Cenidiap” is displaying never-before-seen documents depicting the relationship between artists Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera. 

The Compañía Nacional de Danza of Costa Rica has put a fresh new spin on Igor Stravinsky’s iconic 1910 ballet “The Firebird,” a work originally inspired by a traditional folkloric Russian story by Aleksandr Afanásiev.

Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Prize for Literature by the government of the Dominican Republic, despite protests by groups calling him an enemy of the island nation.

A new book by author Carlos Reyes Mendel entitled “Journey to Taste. Gastronomic Chronicles of a Chile You Do Not Know” addresses the evolution of Chilean cuisine, and makes the surprising claim that the pig should be at the center of that nation’s eating habits.

Mexican artist Gustavo Aceves has installed 40 sculptures in symbolic areas of Rome as a dynamic response to the emergency migratory crisis affecting European countries. Aceves has called the exhibition, titled Lapidarium, “a work in progress” and, beginning in 2017, it will be traveling through a number of other cities as well, including Venice, Paris,

Pia Castro, an Argentine newscaster with the German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle, is often said to be a stylistically sloppy journalist.

Jewish-Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s fiction just keeps getting better.

The 89th anniversary of the Oscars will be held in Los Angeles in February where José Luis Rugeles of Colombia will debut his film, “Alias María,” in the category of best foreign film.