Visual Art

Rituals: Art, memory and the rituals that hold communities together

A new exhibition at the Banco de la República in Bogotá brings together 19 recently acquired works exploring spirituality, ancestral knowledge, memory and the rituals of everyday life. In a world defined by acceleration, information…

RICHARD EMBLIN September 21, 2026

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ARTBO 2026: Four days of art, commerce and Bogotá’s cultural crowd

For four days every September, Bogotá’s art world moves into Ágora Bogotá, where collectors, curators, gallerists, artists, designers, students and the city’s cultural crowd converge…

RICHARD EMBLIN September 18, 2026

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From Cartagena to Chelsea: Ruby Rumié Brings ¿How Are the Children? to New York

At Nohra Haime Gallery, in Manhattan’s white-walled Chelsea district, Cartagena-based artist Ruby Rumié is asking a deceptively simple question: How are the children? It is…

RICHARD EMBLIN May 6, 2026

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Francis Alÿs at MAMU: A Global Portrait of Childhood Through Play

At a time when children are increasingly indoors – absorbed by screens, separated from the street and distanced from the spontaneous rituals of neighborhood play…

RICHARD EMBLIN April 29, 2026

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ARTBO Weekend turns 10: Bogotá’s Art Circuits Come of Age

ARTBO Weekend returns to Bogotá this week with a milestone worth noting – and a programme that suggests the event is no longer content with…

RICHARD EMBLIN April 16, 2026

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Bogotá’s Museo Santa Clara opens provocative exhibition exploring queer spirituality and colonial memory

In the gilded stillness of one of Bogotá’s most striking colonial spaces, a new exhibition is quietly unsettling centuries-old certainties. Entonces llamó a un arcángel,…

RICHARD EMBLIN April 9, 2026

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Marina Sánchez paints Bogotá’s Cerros in luminous colour at Museo del Chicó

In Bogotá, the mountains are never out of sight. They rise abruptly along the city’s eastern edge, forming a green wall that shapes the capital’s…

RICHARD EMBLIN March 2, 2026

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Fernando Botero Takes on Singapore with Landmark Exhibition

Singapore has never been shy about scale. But this season, the city’s appetite for monumentality takes on a distinctly Latin American accent. For the first…

RICHARD EMBLIN February 16, 2026

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Colombia in a Breath: Wind Instruments That Tell the Story of a Nation

Musical instruments are far more than tools for producing sound: they embody the cultural identity of a territory, carrying spiritual meanings, collective memory, and the…

RICHARD EMBLIN January 29, 2026

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Beatriz González: The Artist of Colombia’s Political Memory (1932-2026)

Beatriz González, one of Latin America’s most influential contemporary artists, whose boldly colored, deliberately unrefined paintings and installations confronted Colombia’s long history of political violence,…

RICHARD EMBLIN January 15, 2026

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Colombia’s National Museum Marks 200 Years with “Inspire, Move, Convoke”

Two centuries after its founding in the turbulent aftermath of the Wars of Independence, the National Museum of Colombia is marking its bicentenary with one…

THE CITY PAPER STAFF December 12, 2025

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Lines on Stone: The Millennial Rock Art of the La Lindosa Range

At the eastern fringes of the Andes, where the Orinoco River Basin unfurls in an ondulating canvas of green, punctuated by majestic rivers and sandstone…

RICHARD EMBLIN November 20, 2025