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.

Havana’s Almendares Park was the venue for a weekend of vibrant music and dancing during Cuba’s first ever Salsa Festival.

Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s feature film El abrazo del serpiente (The Serpent’s Embrace) “deserves all the accolades it has won and, if it gets an Oscar, it will be due to its merits.

Peruvian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is fighting back against the media frenzy that has assailed him for months with his new novel Cinco Esquinas (Five Corners). 

Famed historian and philosopher Miguel León-Portilla was given the royal treatment at UNAM in honor of his 90th birthday at an event attended by family, friends, and colleagues, all of whom had gathered to celebrate the life and career of the “great humanist, Renaissance man, and…most renowned Mexican in the world.”

Thirty-two year old Chilean singer-songwriter Álex Anwandter premiered his new feature film, Nunca vas a estar solo (You Will Never Be Alone) on February 13th at this year’s edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Selected for the Panaroma section of the event, the film has generated buzz not only because of the director’s renown