A group of French geophysicists armed with equipment capable of detecting underground structures without the need for excavation recently journeyed to Panama in order to run tests on four key archaeological/cultural sites in the Central American nation.

The Finca Vigía Foundation, a small U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Ernest Hemingway’s former home and remaining artifacts in Cuba, will soon be receiving a $500,000 donation from Caterpillar Inc.

Members of the Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros are showing their work at Mexico City’s Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) after a successful run at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey.

A new book by Jorge G. Castañeda outlines his political platform.

The small size of Chimalistac, a neighborhood located on Mexico City’s southern fringe, belies its enormous importance in the history of Mexican cinema.  The setting of Federico Gamboa’s 1902 wildly successful novel Santa, Chimalistac was soon to become the location for the first “talkie,” or sound film, ever shot in that nation.

Known as one of the premiere Peruvian sculptors of her generation, Johanna Hamann recently set aside her customary work momentarily to finish a doctoral thesis, which has now been published as a book entitled Leguía, el Centenario y sus monumentos. Lima: 1919-1930.

Over the course of one hundred days, the period in which Kassel’s Documenta 12—one of the most influential art exhibitions in the world—completed its 2007 run, there was a dramatic change in the way critics conceived of what art is and what it could be: two judges were invited by curator Roger Buergel to travel

Five Mexican writers representing four distinct generations gathered together for International Women’s Day to discuss the challenges they have confronted getting their work published over the years.

Santiago’s Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM) will be premiering a little-known musical authored by the iconic German playwright Bertolt Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill on March the 17th.

La Sagrada Familia, a new book of poems by Guatemalan author Gloria Hernández, was presented at the Fondo de Cultura Económica in the Central American nation’s capital on the 1st of March.