
Argentina is a land of many talents and one of the Latin American countries where culture and the arts are the most revered. When it comes to the visual...
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In October 2008 the Colección de Arte Amalia LaCroze de Fortabat opened in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, contributing to the rapid transformation ...
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The idea that vision is superior to the other senses would explain the commonly held assumption that humans learn better through images, and that &lsquo...
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Why do so many of us remain indifferent when a bloodied face pops up bearing witness to our society’s vicious inequalities? This is the first ques...
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Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras and raised in El Salvador. Throughout his career as a journalist and author, he has lived in Canada, Mexic...
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MARCELO FIGUERAS, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is a writer and screenwriter. He currently lives in Barcelona. His novel Kamchatka (Atlantic Books, 2010...
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Near the colonial city of Puebla, and just 2 hours outside Mexico City, this sleepy town claims the largest pyramid in the...
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One of my most surreal moments in Mexico DF was witnessing a parade of giant papier-mache monsters, looking like a spin-of...
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Candomblé is the term that is probably most widely used in Brazil to refer to the religious practices whose origins...
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Sergio León spreads conviction and enthusiasm in every thought that he shares with me. He arrived to the UK 35 years ago; he was 27 years old, he was marri...
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Pablo Larrain is a Chilean film director and a leading light in cinema d’auteur, a movement characterized by the director’s personal vision ...
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Globalisation, national identity and the demise of political filmmakingThis article stems from concerns I have about the label “Latin American film,” or “L...
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