Culture

Kindi Llajtu uses colour to create an "absence" of light. The artist employs the abstract with ancestral techniques.

Barranquilla’s Museo del Caribe is a stylish museum dedicated to 'costa' culture and all its marvels.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez's works delve into Colombian consciousness, where minor events take on historical importance.

An art auction by the Corporación Matamoros hopes to raise more than $600 million pesos to help wounded veterans.

The Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata celebrates one of Colombia's most important musical expressions.

New York DJ duo Que Bajo?! mix Colombian cumbia and other Latin music with a world of influences.

Bogotá-based artist Nick Nichols plans to paint 100 portraits on recycled wood as part of his Hunert Faces Project.

This April, Bogotá hosts the 26th International Book Fair, bringing together authors from around the world.

This month, the Museo Nacional hosts an exhibition by Leo Matiz, Colombia's most important photojournalist.

Highlighting road movies and Dutch film, the 2013 Eurocine Festival brings the best of European film to Colombia.

Latin American art expert, José Roca, is helping boost artists in his home country and share their work around the world.

Beethoven takes over Bogotá in the first International Music Festival, with more than 420 artists and 56 concerts.

Rafael Gomezbarros's oversized ants represent both Colombian industriousness and displacement caused by conflict.

Bogotá's Museum of Modern Art, MAMBO, celebrates 50 years with a collection covering more than a century of art.

Festival Estéreo Picnic brings the world's hottest bands to the Colombian capital, but check out these top local groups as well.

The Taller Manual de Cuero is a landmark of leather in La Macarena neighborhood of Bogotá for years.