Mexico City’s Museo Universitario del Chopo is showcasing six new pieces by the artist Daniel Guzmán in an exhibit entitled Soup, cosmos & tears (named after a poem by Charles Bukowski). The pieces are aimed at inspiring “the spectator to think about the notion of mortality, to motivate him to reflect on the current instant,

Farewell messages poured in after the death of the popular Argentine cartoonist, painter and sculptor.

Bala Loca, the Chilevisión television series is addictive, compulsive, and impossible to stop watching, according to writer and filmmaker Alberto Fuguet. It is a series, he says, “full of bad faith, distilled rage and sarcasm; it’s vengeful, lying, vindictive and considers itself wrathful; it seems very good to me.”

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.