El tesoro de la isla de Ízaro

Set in Tibet, Lin Chu is an 11-year-old boy who has been training his horse to compete in the race presided over by the Dalai Lama, who, in this story, is also eleven. Lin Chu wins and the two boys begin a friendship that will profoundly affect their entire lives. This book comes with a separate workbook with fun activities to test reading comprehension.

From the late 1950s until the 1980s, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) made drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging-net pieces (reticulareas), and wire constructions (drawings without paper) of extraordinary quality. Taken as a whole, these works illustrate the issue at the core of her production: the liberation of line from volume and form into space. Though little known outside of Latin America, Gego's work enjoyed a dialogue with twentieth-century artists and movements active not only in Venezuela, but also worldwide. In a series of essays examining...

Hace cuatro años publicamos el último número de esta revista especializada en el análisis de los medios de comunicación. En aquel entonces asistíamos a una de las mayores expectativas que se hayan expresado en el país en los últimos cincuenta años. Imposible sintetizarlas aquí pero anotamos dos ejes clave: la ineficacia y la corrupción de gobiernos anteriores en zonas esenciales de la administración pública, y el discurso que, al capitalizar el desprestigio, simultáneamente prometió mejoras en ámbitos tan sensibles como la pobreza extrema y enfrentar la corrupción como uno de ...

The first section, "The critical discourse in Latin America," deals with varied perspectives with the existence of a uniquely American vision. The next section, "Mapping new territories," addresses the question, as inhabitants of this hemisphere, how do we see ourselves. Section three includes topics on issues of self-definition and cultural hybridity as well as the importance of challenging historical and political constructs traditionally used to define the American experience.

La Costa Rica è stata, nel campo dell’arte contemporanea, un importante polo d’attrazione e di diffusione nel corso dei 15 anni di transizione fra il secolo XX e il XXI. Questa proiezione regionale ed internazionale, di artisti e curatori, sembra aver subito un rallentamento contestualmente con lo spostamento del centro di attenzione verso il Panama o il Guatemala. Il presente elaborato raccoglie una serie di dialoghi con artisti e curatori e altri protagonisti del sistema delle arti nei quali si riflette sulla situazione dell’arte sviluppato durante il periodo fra gli anni 2008-2016....