A new movie directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín reconstructs the life of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, in particular his experiences during the late 1940s, a period when the author of such acclaimed collections as Residence on Earth and Canto General lived in hiding from Chilean authorities.

Years ago, Colombian artists Adrián Ibáñez and Gloria Herazo decided to open a space devoted to art and culture in the town of Tabio, 40 kilometers from the country’s capital of Bogotá.

A new exhibit at Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) features little-known etchings, drawings, and easel paintings by legendary muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, including preliminary sketches of some of their most iconic murals.

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