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. 

Diego Velázquez, who won the Best Actor Award at the Bafici International Competition, stars in La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis, which was also honored as Best Film. 

The new management team at Buenos Aires’s iconic Centro Cultural Recoleta (CCR) last week presented its proposals for courses and workshops for the upcoming season.

In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the Instituto de México has put on display 28 artworks by the recently deceased Spanish painter Sofía Gandarias.

Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s new novel, La forma de las ruinas (The Shape of the Ruins), centers around one of his country’s most infamous crimes: the assassination of politician and Liberal Party presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948.

A document entitled “The Revolution’s Program of Political and Social Reform” is newly on display at the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México (INEHRM) in Mexico City. 

Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author of the infamous Dirty Havana Trilogy among other works, is of the opinion that his country is undergoing a gradual process of modernization in which “little by little, things are getting easier,” although he insists that Cubans urgently need to forget the “resentments and hatreds” of the past in

Chilean environmental artist Aymara Zegers, in collaboration with biologists from the Río Seco Natural History Museum in Punta Arenas and the Mar Adentro Foundation under the leadership of fellow environmental artist Madeline Hurtado, has launched an initiative entitled Campamento Naturalista (Naturalist Camp).