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Visual arts

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Bodies on borders: activism and Latin American performance art

Bodies on borders:…

In 1992, two native Guatinaui Amerindians toured across museums in the United States. The male and female specimens from this little-known island off th...

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Kiki Machado on recycling, beauty and Brazil

Kiki Machado on re…

Today, Kiki Machado, was opening an exhibition of new work with fellow artists Julia and Nina Miranda, in this nice and spacious refurbished gallery space,...

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The Colección Fortabat and the idea of the 21st-century Latin American Art Collection

The Colección Fort…

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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Literature

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Literary Caribbeanness: Fact or Fiction?

Literary Caribbean…

Recently, I was reading Jeremy Taylor’s review of Conversations with Caryl Phillips (ed. by Renée Shatteman), a compendium of nineteen inte...

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Carlos Gamerro

Carlos Gamerro

Interview by Lucy Popescu Carlos Gamerro was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He studied Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and was visiting...

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International Poetry Festival: Medellin, a window in an opium den?

International Poet…

The annual International Poetry Festival in Medellin, Colombia, is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world.  It has an interesting origin, in...

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Culture

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Alebrijes – Paper monsters

Alebrijes – Paper …

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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Chilean miners and the idea of global periphery

Chilean miners and…

As the dust settles on ‘Camp Hope’, I am drawn back to those hours when the rescue was reaching its final stag...

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Laughing in the face of death

Laughing in the fa…

The Mexican love of fiesta is well known. There is always a Saint’s Day to commemorate or a national holiday to obse...

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Cinema

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Latin American filmmakers in the UK

Latin American fil…

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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Spanish imperialism and contemporary Latin American governments brought together by Even the Rain

Spanish imperialis…

The main thread throughout Icíar Bollaín’s film Even the Rain can be summed up by Czech writer Milan Kundera’s renowned quote ...

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From “Third Cinema” to “Latin American film”

From “Third Cinema…

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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