San Agustín and the Gods who didn’t return
A landmark exhibition of San Agustín’s stone deities opens to the public, but without the protagonists.
Culture
Water and music: Living thought
Parisian singer turned Bogotá resident, Sarah Merchal of MARIAZÚ creates sound in the natural setting of the Sierra Nevada.
Bolin: Now you see him…
Chinese artist Liu Bolin's human canvas has come to Bogotá. The creator of "The Invisible Man" is drawing in the crowds.
Artist Rossina Bossio and her Stranger Women
The artist of ‘Holy Beauty Project,’ Rossina Bossio, abandons the sacred and for a new series depicting contemporary women in all their “strangeness.”
Interview: The wilder side of artist Nadín Ospina
Nadín Ospina explores the relationships between ancestral elements and the images which shape a Colombian identity.
Bogota: All’s fair at ArtBo
Growing, growing…sold! Art lovers and buyers descend this month on the largest exhibition space for Colombian art.
Oui! French films
The 2013 edition of the French Film Festival takes on Marie Antoinette, Renoir and a host of classic gangster movies.
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.
Zambrano: A museum imagined
The exhibition by Elsa Zambrano at the Museum of Modern Art examines the relationship between cultural icons and the spectator.
Muniz: material images
The multiplicity of unlikely materials are characteristic of the provocative works by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz exhibited at the BanRep gallery.
Jacanamijoy: In search of ‘self’
A retrospective of painter Carlos Jacanamijoy's work embraces indigenous identity with abstract references to memory.
Cruz: photography and flames
Fernando Cruz documents rudimentary brick ovens as a creative undertaking to understand "sacred" spaces in Colombia.
Moreno: coal and modernity
Taking on coal in all its visual expressions is the latest venture of the Colombian multi-media artist Eduardo Moreno.
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…
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.
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.