Art y Culture + History Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 2, 2009
Tales of weeping woman passed down in Hispanic culture – La Llorona
October 12, 2009
2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist
October 5, 2009
Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.
September 29, 2009
Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.
September 24, 2009
The world-famous British Museum is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.
Efrain’s Corner: El Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico
September 22, 2009
Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god
September 15, 2009
Hispanic-America: Historic roots in U.S. history and culture
September 9, 2009
Photos: National Museum of American History Explores Bracero Story in New Exhibition – website http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero
Bracero Story Explored in New Smithsonian Exhibition
September 1, 2009
Catching Up on Catherine Ramirez’s THE WOMAN IN THE ZOOT SUIT
May 7, 2009
Bacardi headquarters in Miami headed for historic status
March 19, 2009
Guanajuato’s mummies are a window on the past
January 26, 2009
The ancient, intricate geometric patterns stamped on the surface of a desert in Peru have long been thought of as messages to the gods, or as markers that tracked celestial objects. Now new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for “prayer walking”. The Nasca lines
December 18, 2008
Dos exposiciones de fotografías simultáneas reflejan en forma emotiva y vibrante la inquietud social y política que conmovió a Latinoamérica en las últimas décadas. En “Cornell Capa: fotógrafo sensible” los trabajos expuestos datan a partir de 1953 en Guatemala, y hasta 1973 en Honduras. La segunda muestra es “Susan Meiselas: en la Historia”, y entre los países fotografiados figura Nicaragua, a quien dedicó mucho tiempo a partir de 1978 – NYC
December 12, 2008
Killer Chic – Hollywood’s Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara – (very good 8 minute video)
December 10, 2008
Exotic Stone Relics Shed Light on Pre-Hispanic Cuba
December 8, 2008
Maria Elena Salinas: The unusual path of hemisphere’s saint – Virgin of Guadalupe
Debate Rages in Peru: Was a Lost City Ever Lost? – Machu Picchu
December 2, 2008
Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico – The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” a traveling exhibition currently at the Museo Alameda – San Antonio
November 19, 2008
The director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul dredged the artifacts from the sacred lake at the ruins of Chichen Itza.
September 30, 2008
“The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots,” co-authors Gary D. Keller and Francis M. Nevins explore how the Cisco Kid, through American film and television, emerges with a new persona, what Keller refers to as a “noble bandit.” Keller is the director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University
September 29, 2008
New volume collects works of Chicano writer, artist and Renaissance man :: José Antonio Burciaga – “The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes,” edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón (University of Texas at El Paso)
September 25, 2008
25 ANIVERSARIO DE SU MUERTE – El México de Luis Buñuel
August 17, 2008
In Yucatan, a maze of Maya stone temples found in underground caves
August 7, 2008
A pigment unknown to art historians has been identified on ancient Maya artefacts from Mexico. The blue-green colour of veszelyite seems to have been chosen to blend in with and even imitate jade, the most precious substance used by the Maya.
August 6, 2008
Rock Art Marks Transformations In Traditional Peruvian Societies
July 21, 2008
Book reveals extent of Mafia’s Cuban empire – “Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution”
