The earliest curated collections in the world, prototypes for what would in the 17th century become the modern museum, were widely referred to as “cabinets.”

Cuban literature’s newest voices were among the protagonists at this year’s Étonnants Voyageurs Literature Festival, held in the French city of Saint-Malo last week.

A new book of essays by Argentine philosopher Tomás Abraham revisits his intellectual “heroes,” those artists, musicians, thinkers, and novelists for whom he experiences a powerful and unapologetic “admiration.”

Colombia’s Alma en Movimiento (Soul in Motion) Project, an initiative aimed at both educating the public about dance and training new ballerinas, has enjoyed tremendous success at achieving both goals.

In 1965, at 29 years of age, the Uruguayan singer Alfredo Zitarrosa released the album that was soon to make him a national legend: El canto de Zitarrosa. That album, which included such songs as “Milonga para una niña,” “El camba,” “Mire amigo,” and “Recordándote,” was an instant success on the charts, its singles competing

For a generation of Colombian writers living abroad, Bogotá’s Book Fair offers a chance to return home.

Un minuto feliz, a new play by Argentine dramatist Santiago Lozano, debuted on May 6th at Chile’s Centro Gabriela Mistral (GAM). The play, written last year while Lozano enjoyed a writer’s residency at the GAM, is based on the Chilean capital’s infamous “cafés con piernas” (cafes with legs), coffee shops where attractive, miniskirt-clad barristas, who

Brazilian dancer Marcus Abranches premiered a dance piece inspired by Norwegian painter Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream on April 29th and 30th at São Paulo’s Dance Reference Center.

Mexican writer Fernando del Paso has been awarded the Premio Cervantes, the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world.

Colombian author Laura Restrepo’s new book, Pecado (Sin), takes on the daunting subject of human evil.