Art y Culture + non-US news Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 20, 2009

Guatemala: The Illustrations of Roberto Galvez

November 18, 2009

Peru: Documentary about the “Diablada” dance will be done in Puno

November 10, 2009

Mexico City’s literary circle – The Centro Histórico area is the nation’s repository of rare and antique bookstores.

November 2, 2009

Mexico’s death museum lives up to morbid name in Aguascalientes, Mexico

October 14, 2009

Thousands of Venezuelans congregated for candlelit rituals on a remote mountainside where adherents make an annual pilgrimage to pay homage to an indigenous goddess known as Maria Lionza.

October 9, 2009

Several acclaimed Argentine writers presented a new work that uses the Bible as its starting point but takes creative liberties with some of the most widely read passages of that holy text.

September 24, 2009

Mexican federal prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a claim that more than 1,000 items attributed to artist Frida Kahlo were forged.

September 22, 2009

Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god

September 9, 2009

Fighting over Frida Kahlo – In Mexico, the emergence of work said to be made by the artist has led to a very public debate about its authenticity.

Colombia: Medellín Celebrates its Festival of Flowers

September 2, 2009

Mummies Of Guanajanto: Amazingly Preserved Mummies Go On Display – (fotos y video)

August 27, 2009

Mexico players fight for pre-Hispanic game site

Ecuador: XXII National Festival of Ecuadorian Music

August 24, 2009

El Clandestino is a punk alternative space in Ecatepec in suburban Mexico City.

August 21, 2009

The international financial crisis and the outbreak of swine flu have had a profound effect on Argentina, including what many see as part of its very essence – the tango.

August 10, 2009

Mexico said Friday it accepts the recommendations of a U.N. committee that criticized a now-suspended plan to install lights on the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids to make it accessible for nighttime visits.

August 5, 2009

Mexico’s Diego Rivera murals get restoration treatment

July 13, 2009

Ecuador: The Passing of Writer Jorge Enrique Adoum

July 9, 2009

Reggaeton fever shakes up Cuba’s culture

June 16, 2009

Art in Los Cabos: ruining the secret for everyone

June 6, 2009

Museum dedicated to AfroPeruvian culture was inaugurated today

June 5, 2009

Colombian writer William Ospina won the prestigious Romulo Gallegos International Novel Prize on Thursday in a competition marked by the withdrawal of two Venezuelan authors due to differences with President Hugo Chavez.

June 4, 2009

Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua. Hecho

June 1, 2009

Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza

May 7, 2009

Every now and then a dance show comes along that has such runaway enthusiasm that you bin the criticism and merrily rave to anyone who will listen. Havana Rakatan is such a show. There are reservations, such as over-long numbers and unclear narrative, and there will always be those who pour scorn by claiming Cuba peaked with the Buena Vista Social Club.

April 22, 2009

Peru’s Potato Park – This eco-preserve is a living monument to the descendents of the Incan empire—and their most prized food. – 200 varieties on display in the visitors’ center at Peru’s Parque de la Papa – a relatively new and little-known attraction near Cusco

March 21, 2009

Cafe de la Opera – A storefront in the Libertad area of Tijuana has become a haven for opera lovers.

March 19, 2009

Guanajuato’s mummies are a window on the past

March 11, 2009

Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.

Eco Olive Oil Factory by Guillermo Hevia Architects

February 5, 2009

La revolución cultural de María Verónica – La artista guayaquileña compartió sus experiencias en el medio cultural europeo, durante una conferencia.

February 4, 2009

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, created a 2.5 acre sand painting of Obama in Barcelona, Spain

Mexico: Protesting the Proposal to Illuminate Teotihuacán Pyramids

January 29, 2009

Chilean High Rise Wrapped in a Living Green Wall

January 28, 2009

The late Roberto Bolaño of Chile is among the finalists announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.

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

January 21, 2009

Heavy rains have damaged part of one of Peru’s top tourist destination, depositing clay and sand on mysterious figures etched in the desert sand by indigenous groups centuries ago, an archaeologist said Monday.

For Peruvians, Baskets for the U.S. Market Bring a New Way of Life

December 23, 2008

La ciudad invitada de la FIL de Guadalajara 2009 es Los Ángeles – Estados Unidos es ya un país hispanoparlante

A Diaper Change You Can Believe In – Why, exactly, are thousands of God-loving Spaniards paying almost twenty bucks for Barack Obama to relieve himself in their nativity scenes? Somewhere between tradition and transition lies perhaps the funniest Christmas story you’ll learn this season.

December 21, 2008

In Madrid, Banking on the Art Scene

December 18, 2008

“Las bicicletas” (”the bicycles”) outside Mexico City’s Museo de Palacio de Bellas Artes is one of two works created by artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro especially for the museum’s retrospective exhibition of his art.

December 10, 2008

Gabriel García Márquez comienza un taller en la Escuela de Cine de La Habana

December 9, 2008

Mexico’s INBA Celebrates Dolores Olmedo’s 100th Anniversary with Important Exhibition

Mexico Book Fair Has 600,000 Visitors, Record Sales Reading isn’t dead in Mexico as Guadalajara pulls Carlos Fuentes and other literary superstars.

An art explosion in one of Mexico’s most marginalized places – Ecatepec, the largest municipality in the Mexican union

December 8, 2008

La rica cultura de los pueblos coloniales de Michoacán

Mummies from Guanajuato museum are on display in Monterrey, Mexico

Debate Rages in Peru: Was a Lost City Ever Lost? – Machu Picchu

Guatemalans on Sunday celebrated a beloved tradition: “Burning of the Devil.” Across the country, people lit bonfires and burned images of Satan as a way to symbolically cleanse their houses. For the first time, the minister of the environment had asked Guatemalans not to burn the devil.

A Lifestyle Distinct: The Muxe of Mexico – Mexico can be intolerant of homosexuality; it can also be quite liberal. Gay-bashing incidents are not uncommon in the countryside, where many Mexicans consider homosexuality a sin. In Mexico City, meanwhile, same-sex domestic partnerships are legally recognized — and often celebrated lavishly in government offices as if they were marriages. But nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca. There, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes”

December 3, 2008

In the face of an unfolding legal battle over its ownership, the Gelman collection of 20th-century Mexican art has been hidden by its current owner, American curator Robert Littman

November 18, 2008

El jefe de Estado de México, Felipe Calderón, los premios Nobel Gabriel García Márquez y Nadine Gordimer, el ex presidente del Gobierno español Felipe González y el ex mandatario chileno Ricardo Lagos encabezaron hoy el comienzo de los homenajes al escritor Carlos Fuentes.

November 17, 2008

Mexico’s Mineral de Pozos: A ghost town comes alive as an artist colony The ruins of the former mining town are being reclaimed as new residents and visitors bring the area back to life.

October 2, 2008

In Photos: A different kind of torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution

September 26, 2008

Site of Tijuana drug tunnel becomes art center

September 25, 2008

25 ANIVERSARIO DE SU MUERTE – El México de Luis Buñuel

September 17, 2008

A prison-cell painting by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been auctioned for US$255,000 to raise money for his socialist party.

August 17, 2008

In Yucatan, a maze of Maya stone temples found in underground caves

August 14, 2008

Pérez Celis, 69; Argentine Artist Had Popular Appeal

August 11, 2008

‘Laberinto de Miradas,’ a photo and video exhibition in Mexico City, explores factors driving global immigration.

David Lida’s ‘First Stop in the New World’: probing, comprehensive Is Mexico City the New York of the 21st century?

August 6, 2008

Perez Celis, 69, an Argentine painter, sculptor and muralist whose highly visible works adorned museums, banks, airports and universities as well as soccer stadiums and wine bottles, died of leukemia Aug. 2 at a clinic in Buenos Aires.

Rock Art Marks Transformations In Traditional Peruvian Societies

July 30, 2008

U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.

July 29, 2008

El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía abrirá al público sus terrazas a partir del viernes para que puedan disfrutar de las vistas de Madrid.

July 28, 2008

Virgin of El Cobre draws Cubans of all descriptions

July 23, 2008

The Zocolo… an important place in the Hispanic Culture

In Oaxaca: tastes that transcend time

July 16, 2008

Bloggings by boz: Anthony Bourdain in Colombia

June 26, 2008

Lucha libre – wrestling, Mexican style – is coming to London’s Roundhouse

June 19, 2008

Why the Guggenheim won’t open a branch in Guadalajara, Mexico

May 27, 2008

Tijuana’s ‘CowParade’ takes art to the people

May 13, 2008

Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barren Lands – the traditional milpa

May 12, 2008

The spectral presences of Leonora Carrington

April 16, 2008

Mexico marks Octavio Paz anniversary

April 8, 2008

Experts apply high-tech tools to a Spanish altarpiece, peering back 500 years to solve a mystery

February 28, 2008

Mysterious Pyramid Complex Discovered in Peru

February 5, 2008

Cuban art makes a grand showing in Montreal

February 4, 2008

Madrid museum hosts unique Picasso exhibition

January 29, 2008

Long-Lost Set of Robert Capa Negatives Taken During Spanish Civil War Found in Mexico

Over 40 Pre-Hispanic Textiles Return to Peru from Germany

January 22, 2008

One of the greats from Cuban painting, maestro Manuel Mendive, first exhibits his work in diverse genres in Yucatan. | Cuba News Headlines. Cuban Daily News

January 16, 2008

Time Capsule from 1791 Found in Mexican Cathedral

January 14, 2008

Spanish Poet Angel Gonzalez Dead at 82

December 28, 2007

Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City

December 12, 2007

Mexican company launches beer in honor of unofficial drug saint – Jesus Malverde

December 11, 2007

The Death of a Mexican Musician – Heber Rasgado

December 5, 2007

Missing Peruvian pre-Incan gold artifacts found in treasure-filled hideout in Spain

November 30, 2007

Argentinian poet Juan Gelman wins top Spanish literary prize

COLOMBIA: The Chibcha Culture – Forgotten, But Still Alive

November 19, 2007

A Bit of the Divine Found in Tepoztlan, Mexico

November 15, 2007

Mexican school for Down syndrome art gains international acclaim

November 13, 2007

Chocolate invented 3,100 years ago by the Aztecs – but they were trying to make beer

‘Oldest American mural’ is found in Peruvian temple

November 11, 2007

Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru

October 31, 2007

Mexican School for Down Syndrome Art Gains International Acclaim

Spanish king unveils new wing at Prado museum

October 30, 2007

Dual Tradition: Halloween mixed with Peruvian Criolla music and dance

October 15, 2007

The rebirth of Buenos Aires

September 27, 2007

Mexican Muralist Honored – Diego Rivera – Mexico City

Carlos Fuentes dona parte de su acervo a la UNAM

September 26, 2007

‘Frida’ Makes Brief, Rare Mexican Visit – 16 years of waiting, Monterrey Museum of Contemporary Art, known here as “Marco,” finally hosts the city’s first exhibit – devoted entirely to Frida Kahlo.

Pampering A Mysterious Deity With Presents and Rum – Guatemala

September 25, 2007

Snake-bird gods fascinated both Aztecs and pharaohs – Exhibit in Monterrey, Mexico – (sounds really cool)

September 18, 2007

Many historic Peruvian buildings hit hard in earthquake – BADLY DAMAGED | Many churches, haciendas destroyed, government look into pre-Columbian, pre-Incan sites

September 7, 2007

New home for Mexico City’s eclectic popular art

August 27, 2007

Rebel with a cause – Two biographies take objective looks at Venezuela’s unobjective — and outspoken — leader – Hugo Chávez

July 25, 2007

Peru demands return of Machu Picchu treasures from Yale

July 2, 2007

Great books and the Mexican cop’s soul

June 24, 2007

Mexico City: Converted fire station houses art of the people

May 26, 2007

McGuinty Government Supporting The Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival

May 15, 2007

Ten Years of PHotoEspaña

April 29, 2007

Mexico City stages mass quinceanera party

A home for art away from chaos of Mexico City – Diego Rivera’s last lover collected works from pre-Hispanic items to modern icons

April 17, 2007

Mexico finds bones suggesting Toltec child sacrifice

March 22, 2007

Access to Mexican tourist site restricted to stop deterioration – Teotihuacan, Mexico

February 15, 2007

Mexican man finds forty dinosaur prints in desert

February 7, 2007

Prof debates unknown fate of ancient Peruvian city

January 25, 2007

Archeologists discover ancient Olmec-influenced city near Mexico City

January 22, 2007

Wealth of talent has foreigners eager to pounce on unknown artists – Cuba

January 21, 2007

Mexican designers work local tradition into their pieces

January 19, 2007

Spanish designer uses illegal immigrants as models at fashion show in Barcelona

January 18, 2007

Peru: Pre-Columbian ruin discovered

January 17, 2007

Backstory: Venezuelas cultural revolution – President Chávez boosts local filmmakers, musicians, and artists to forge a national identity and counteract ‘imperial’ Hollywood.

January 11, 2007

Former Cuban officials resurface, enrage artists

November 17, 2006

Mexican archeologists say tomb of Aztec emperor may lie beneath recently excavated monolith

November 8, 2006

Largest pre-Hispanic lunar calendar shown to the public in Mexico

October 26, 2006

Picasso-designed bullring may be built in artist’s Spanish hometown

October 25, 2006

Mexican fashion: “global design with a local touch”

October 24, 2006

Morelia film fest wild for ‘Bunch’ doc – Mexico

September 25, 2006

12 native Peruvian languages in danger of disappearing

August 10, 2006

Fundacion Cisneros Launches Flagship Visual-Arts Education Initiative in Mexico City

July 23, 2006

Former torture center now houses Chilean art museum in Santiago, Chile

May 14, 2006

Mexican artisans compete with dazzling craftsmanship in Uruapan, Mexico

May 9, 2006

Mexico monolith may cast new light on Mesoamerica

April 9, 2006

Be amazed by the mazes in Paquimé, Mexico

April 6, 2006

Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico City

March 16, 2006

Unreleased films take top honors at Mexican 48th Ariel Awards

February 16, 2006

Mexican curanderos practice a unique kind of medicine

February 6, 2006

Three people have died in Brazil when mostly teenage fans of a Mexican pop group, RBD, were crushed trying to get autographs, officials have said.

November 8, 2005

Bolivians Honor Skull-Toting Tradition

November 2, 2005

Mexico struggles to save tradition

October 12, 2005

‘Maria,’ for Marias everywhere. The Daily Yomiuri