The controversial Costa Rican collector Leonardo Patterson, accused of selling counterfeit and stolen pieces from various Latin American archaeological sites, intends to transfer his collection of pre-Columbian art from Paris to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, according to El País.
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A "wall of backpacks" abandoned by dozens of migrants who crossed the Sonoran Desert trying to reach the United States is on display - and is still being added to - as an exhibit in New York in answer to the immigration policy of President Donald Trump.
Thirteen young Mexican-American artists explore the ideas of "home" and "place" in the American West in an exhibit called "Mi Tierra" at the Denver Art Museum. Artists tackled topics of immigration, identity struggle and colliding worlds.
Alfredo Alcalde, one of the best-known artists in Peru, considers it an honor to paint murals in Mexico, the nation that made them a signature art form of its culture.
Most of the works were chosen before last year’s Presidential election and makes us feel nostalgic, as reported in The New Yorker. Among the selected artists are two prominent Latinos: Rafa Esparza and Raúl de Nieves.
Former President George W. Bush’s first book of oil paintings, “Portraits of Courage,” appears in bookstores today. Bush has weighd in on Trump's presidency, calling the media 'Indispensable To Democracy'
Take your pictures today while you still can. The iconic Love statue will disappear until Summer 2017.
The City of Philadelphia’s Public Art Program will remove Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture (1976) for restoration, before it’s returned to the LOVE Park also known as John F. Kennedy Plaza.
La dedicación del Taller Puertorriqueño en servicio a una comunidad que a menudo ha sido relegada nunca ha disminuido, a pesar de sus limitados recursos. Hoy en día taller tiene por fin una moderna sede que tomó 10 años financiar.
La dedicación del Taller Puertorriqueño en servicio a una comunidad que a menudo ha sido relegada nunca ha disminuido, a pesar de sus limitados recursos. Hoy en día taller tiene por fin una moderna sede que tomó 10 años financiar.
After Malaga and Brussels, Pompidou Center mulls branch in Colombia. "Artists have contributed to pacifying social life in Colombia,” says institution’s head Serge Lasvignes in El País.
During the many travels of ALDIA's photographer throughout the city, there are many places and faces that might not be recognized to many but there are hidden stories in Philadelphia.
We take a look at today's Photos of the Day while traveling into the Italian Market in South Philadelphia as well as along Penn Treaty Park by the Delaware River.
Danilo Maldonado, better known as El Sexto, has been freed after spending two months in prison without trial. El Sexto was arrested and jailed for his attempt to draw counter-revolutionary graffiti after Fidel Castro's death.
Habiendo recaudado 20.000 dólares en tres horas durante el pasado fin de semana, #CollectiveActionPHL celebró una subasta de arte en silencio con casi mil asistentes. El evento se diseñó para recaudar fondos para 10 organizaciones de justicia social a nivel nacional y local.
Raising over $20,000 in three hours this past weekend, #CollectiveActionPHL hosted a silent art auction with over a thousand attendees. The event was designed to raise money for 10 social justice organizations at both the national and local levels.
Un colectivo de activistas locales se ha organizado bajo el eslogan “DISRUPTJ20” (“Detengamos el 20 de Enero”, en inglés), en colaboración con el DC Welcoming Committee, para convocar a manifestantes, trabajadores y cualquier persona que desee sumarse, a boicotear la toma de posesión del Presidente Electo de los Estados Unidos, Donald J. Trump.
A group of local activist has organized under the slogan “DISRUPTJ20”, under the DC Welcoming Committee, to call upon protesters, workers and any citizen that may want to join, to boycott Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.
DISRUPTJ20 has put forward a network of activists to organize protests and a general strike that pretend to disturb the investiture of the President-Elect Donald Trump, spreading direct actions in the streets and through any media in hand.
La compañía de entretenimiento canadiense, Cirque du Soleil, ha anunciado el estreno de su obra tributo a una de las bandas de rock más importantes en la historia de la música latinoamericana: Soda Stereo.
El “montaje dramático de artes circenses y esparcimiento callejero” – como se describe a sí misma la compañía – tiene una trayectoria de más de 30 años, llevando al mundo entero espectáculos que conjugan la música en vivo, la danza y el arte callejero en el que se desempeñaban sus fundadores Guy Laliberté y Daniel Gauthier antes de fundar la agrupación.
Estos últimos doce meses se han llevado consigo a figuras importantes de la escena artística internacional, dejando desolados a miles de fans y dejando un vacío importante en la plantilla de artistas, que pareciera no tener generación de relevo.
Desde David Bowie hasta Carrie Fischer, estos son las personalidades que nos han dejado este año:
El País reports about about a tiny town of Sinaloa, in Mexico, where a young teacher is trying to fight violence and crime through teaching art to children.
On January 7 2015, two Islamic terrorists attacked the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 reporters. Terrorists claimed that the magazine cartoons mocked at Islam.
“I do not accept comfortable chairs, nor warm drinks”, wrote Marta Minjín when she was 25 year old, “the same age I am now”, the famous Argentinan visual artist said in an interview for Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación in 2014. Marta Mujia, 73, was awarded yesterday with the Premio Velazquez, the highest award for a Hispanic artist. Her works have been exhibited in the Guggenheim and the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, among others.
El mundo de la filantropía evoca imágenes de hombres y mujeres adinerados luciendo tuxedos y pieles en fiestas y galas de lujo. El estereotipo es merecido - generaciones de ricos patrones donando generosamente su dinero y prestigio a un selecto grupo de fundaciones, año tras año, creando un sólido sistema, aunque también elitista, rehogado en una buena dosis de tradición y ego.
The world of philanthropy conjures images of well-heeled men and women donning tuxedos and furs at fancy galas. The stereotype is well-deserved - generations of wealthy patrons lavishly contributed money and prestige to a select group of foundations over the generations, creating a robust yet exclusionary system steeped in tradition and ego.
La libertad implica la supremacía de los derechos humanos en todas partes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The first artist-run super PAC (Political Action Committee), For Freedoms, has raised a billboard in Pearl, Mississippi, displaying the President-elected slogan Make America Great Again over an iconic photograph of the Civil Rights Movement, taken in 1965 by Spider Martin and titled Two Minute Warning.
“Un adolescente sin hogar no se parece a lo que probablemente te imagines como un adolescente sin hogar”, explica John Ducoff, director ejecutivo de Covenant House Pennsylvania. “Los adolescentes y los niños se preocupan mucho por las apariencias y por cómo son percibidos. Por esta razón, se vuelven una comunidad invisible, y nuestra misión es sacarlos de la sombra”.
