“You can feel yourself inside the river.” Irene Aritsitizábal tells me, as I look up into an enormous piece of patterned silk curling like a serpent from the high ceiling. The light catches the material, highlighting its earthy... Read Article
Enthusiasm and vivid memories seep across with joy from Chicana Artist Margaret Garcia as I sat in her colourful studio in Highland Park, California surrounded by textured paintings and portraits of friends hung on the walls. Her visit... Read Article
A new exhibition entitled City Limits: Inside, Above, Within at El Barrio’s Art-space PS109 in New York will attempt to show how life within the city has transformed in the modern world, with themes of climate change, localism,... Read Article
The Spanish Theatre Company has begun building the first venue in the history of London dedicated to the best artists, actors, musicians, dancers and authors of the Spanish language. The Cervantes Theatre London will be located in the vibrant... Read Article
Following the launch of Carolina Badas new online art gallery, Sounds and Colours got in touch with the art historian and curator, to find out more about this amazing project, and get to the bottom of the reasons... Read Article
This past July the Museum of Modern Art in New York City wrapped up its four month long exhibition, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955 – 1980; an exhibition that delved deep into the modern coming-of-age era of... Read Article
Piers Calvert, driven by a sense of adventure and duty to the world’s culture, headed to Colombia to record the indigenous populations of the Colombian Amazon. With clients such as the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times Magazine and The... Read Article
The exhibition “Realidades Increíbles”, a collection of watercolor paintings by the Colombian artist Andrés Arango, was on display at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cultural Center in Bogotá between May 21st and July 5th. The title alone gave a... Read Article
After a visit to the Mayan sites of Yucatan in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in 1977, Jeanne Masoero became inspired by the landscape surrounding her. The journey became a process of discovery, a process in which the destination... Read Article
Brightly coloured bikinis, boxers and socks hang from hurricane-proof window shutters and sit right alongside tropical plants growing from football plant-pots in Radames “Juni” Figueroa’s newest exhibition at London’s Edel Assanti gallery. The tropical, yet sparse and minimalist... Read Article
Raul Eberhard is a Chilean artist whose primary focus is the world and how it makes him feel. Raul connects the world around him with those too stuck in the worldwide system of blinking lights and dial tones.... Read Article
La Violencia, a 1962 painting by the Colombian artist Alejandro Obregón, is a painful work to view. The image is of a naked, pregnant woman lying horizontally in the dark, pushed up close to the viewer; her face... Read Article
