Arts

Cheap weekend options in Chile for national Theater Day

Friday, 10 May 2013 15:03

Written by Weiru Fang

More than 7,000 seats will be offered on discounts in participating theaters, with some plays offered for free and others at just one ‘luca.’

Theater aficionados will have the opportunity this weekend to see Chilean actors performing in action at special discounted prices.

NY Times Magazine photography exhibition comes to Chilean capital

Tuesday, 07 May 2013 11:28

Written by Angus McNeice

Santiago's Universidad Católica hosts 126 works printed by The New York Times Magazine under the quarter-century-long tenure of photo editor Kathy Ryan.

Published in the summer of 1991, Sebastião Salgado's photo essay "The Kuwaiti Inferno" is a virtuosic piece of work, as much a stand alone piece of art as a jarring social document.

US electronic musicians teach and perform in Chile

Tuesday, 23 April 2013 11:27

Written by Charlie Actor

Brooklyn-based artists Dan Freeman and Jibrail Nor come to Santiago to hold workshops and perform electronic music.

Electronic Musicians Dan Freeman and Jibrail Nor are in Santiago to celebrate International Jazz Month, which culminates on International Jazz Day this April 30. Both hail from the New York borough of Brooklyn.

Children’s e-book launched in indigenous Chilean language

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 17:32

Written by Elizabeth Trovall

Mapuche youth workshop aims to revitalize native culture.

A new e-book and accompanying documentary will be released Thursday in Chile’s indigenous Mapuche language. The e-book, called “Epew Pichikeche ñi Rakizuam” (The Thoughts of Children), is written in both Mapudungun and Spanish.

Chilean artist Paula Lynch brings her realism to Bellas Artes

Saturday, 02 March 2013 20:00

Written by Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis

New exhibition at Santiago’s Bellas Artes Museum to feature realistic pencil portraits by artist Paula Lynch.

At first glance Paula Lynch’s pieces look like stoic photographs. But on closer inspection one discovers they are actually giant, life-like drawings composed with nothing more than a pencil. Created over days of diligent work, Lynch applied such attention to detail, her finished products can fool the eye.

Interview: Pati Aguilera, illustrator and Chilean food-lover

Monday, 25 February 2013 18:31

Written by Manon Paulic

In her blog, Chilean illustrator Pati Aguilera combines her passions of illustration and food.

For Chilean illustrator Patricia Aguilera, cooking used to be quite a story. It always implied rummaging unsuccessfully among dozens of recipes, written in a hurry on loose sheets and affixed randomly on the fridge. And usually it would end with a call to her mother to remind her of the ingredients and guide her through the recipes.

Interview: Inti Castro’s graffiti legacy in Chile’s port city

Friday, 25 January 2013 18:55

Written by Laina Roberts

A conversation on life and art with Chile’s most popular street artist, Inti Castro.

Inti Castro appears as a typical Chilean: casually dressed, dreadlocks, smoking a cigarette on an outlook over his hometown of Valparaíso. If you saw him on the street, you wouldn’t know he is one of the most well-known street artists in the world.

Fine art on the streets of Santiago

Friday, 18 January 2013 22:16

Written by Lucy Hughes Jones

Persa Bio Bio’s flea market is the setting for almost 40 Chilean artists to exhibit their work.

In the heart of Barrio Franklin, where a thriving flea market hawks anything from vinyls, to pet accessories, old motorcycles and counterfeit handbags, something of greater value is about to go up for sale. Three dozen of Chile’s established and emerging artists will showcase their works at the Factoría Santa Rosa from Jan. 24 - 27, in a bid to bring high art to the masses.

Sebastián Silva, Pablo Larraín represent Chile at Sundance

Friday, 18 January 2013 22:11

Written by Amelia Duggan

Chilean drug odyssey “Crystal Fairy and the Magic Cactus and 2012,” starring Michael Cera, premieres in Utah.

Chilean director Sebastián Silva’s semi autobiographical desert drug-romp “Crystal Fairy and the Magic Cactus and 2012” saw its world premiere Thursday at the launch of the Sundance Festival 2013, in Park City, Utah. The curiously-titled film, starring Hollywood’s go-to boy for teenage ennui, Michael Cera, was shot in twelve days in Santiago and the Atacama Desert and is the only English-language entry in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Eccentric Chilean artist found dead in Rio de Janeiro

Friday, 11 January 2013 18:33

Written by Alicja Siekierska

The body of Jorge Selarón was recovered on the staircase he spent 20 years creating.

In the bohemian Lapa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, home to a large community of artists, lies one of the most spectacular staircases in the world, the Escadaria Selarón.

Chilean movie ‘No’ nominated in Oscars

Thursday, 10 January 2013 21:56

Written by Manon Paulic

Pablo Larraín’s latest movie will compete for the 2013 Oscars in the Foreign Movie category.

The story of a young Chilean exile returning to his country to fight the dictatorship apparently pleased the judges of the Oscars Academy, as it was selected to run in the Foreign Movie category for this 2013 ceremony that will be held on February 24.

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