Culture

Scupltures by Nadin Ospina for artBO.

Bogota: All’s fair at ArtBo

Growing, growing…sold! Art lovers and buyers descend this month on the largest exhibition space for Colombian art.

The movie poster of FRench film Renoir.

Oui! French films

The 2013 edition of the French Film Festival takes on Marie Antoinette, Renoir and a host of classic gangster movies.

The colonial city of Mompox welcomes Jazz ensembles for its second edition festival.

Jazzed up Mompox

For two days in October, the sultry town of Mompox on the Magdalena River, hosts its 2nd version of the International Jazz Festival.

The imaginary museum of Colombian artist Elsa Zambrano.

Zambrano: A museum imagined

The exhibition by Elsa Zambrano at the Museum of Modern Art examines the relationship between cultural icons and the spectator.

Brazilian artost Vik Muniz creates work with unlikely materials.

Muniz: material images

The multiplicity of unlikely materials are characteristic of the provocative works by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz exhibited at the BanRep gallery.


Brick factories and coal mines are a visual statement by photographer Cruz.

Cruz: photography and flames

Fernando Cruz documents rudimentary brick ovens as a creative undertaking to understand "sacred" spaces in Colombia.

Artist Eduardo Moreno works with coal.

Moreno: coal and modernity

Taking on coal in all its visual expressions is the latest venture of the Colombian multi-media artist Eduardo Moreno.

Colombian cumbia rockers Bomba Estéreo.

It’s ‘Bomba Estéreo’

Bomba Estéreo is not your grandparents’ cumbia! The voice of “Li” Saumet and the beats of Simón Mejia are earning this band a fan base…

The exhibition Grandes Maestros looks at the art of artisans throughout the hemisphere.

Artisan ‘Maestros’

The exhibition 'Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular' exhibited at Bogotá's Modern Art Museum looks at the art of craftmanship across the region.

The Petronio Alvarez Festival celebrates Afro-Colombian music.

Petronio: Festival with a future

The Petronio Alvarez Festival celebrates Colombia’s rich Afro culture and has grown into a world class event since it launched 17 years ago in Cali.

The tra(m)ps of photographer Javier Vanegas at the Museo Gallery.

Exposed as a tra(m)p!

With his engaging exhibition titled 'Human tra(m)p' photographer Javier Vanegas challenges notions of what is considered “obscene.”

The colonial town of Villa de Leyva can inspire the aspiring writer.

Villa de Leyva: Writer’s escape

Villa de Leyva is more than fossils and walking cobble streets. It's a refuge for artists looking for inspiration far from it all.


An exhibition of ceramics from ancient Greece comes to the Museo Nacional.

Days of amphorae

Get a closer look at the pots and pieces of ancient Greece at an exhibited which opens its doors mis month at the Museo Nacional…

Medellín has historical connections to the modernist art movement. From Deborah Arango to contemporary artists.

Medellín: A modernist legacy

Colombia's modernist movement took hold in the 1950s when Medellín artists began exposing a double standard in paisa culture. The modernist legacy remains.