Gabriel Diez Lacunza reports for Pagina Siete: EXPERT FINISH RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION WORK Qillqantiji featuring over 220 cave paintings Archaeology The site, located in the town of Peñas, has paintings from the formative, pre-Tiwanaku period, to colonial. Over 220 cave paintings of flames, masks, two-headed birds and human figures, created between the formative period before…
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Bolivia Music 101: Chiquitos and the music by Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa writes in El Pais, Madrid after his recent visit to Santa Cruz: Chiquitos and the music The first Jesuits who came to this remote corner of eastern Bolivia saw the houses of the Indians with very small houses, that baptized the entire region with the name of Chiquitos [tiny]. Father Jose de…
Songs in Guaraní are the jewel of the Baroque Music Festival, Bolivia waits for you!!
Rolando Aparicio reports for El Deber: Songs in Guaraní are the jewel of the Baroque Music Festival The event has established itself as unique on the planet. In its tenth edition, will present new works, blockbuster movies and guests. It will open the route of ancient clavichords and a child tent. New spectacles in which…
Alasitas in Bolivia started yesterday, today January 25, 2014, in Corona, Queens!!
Miranda Shafer reports: Bolivian Immigrants Celebrate ‘Alasitas’ Festival By Making Big Dreams Small Blanca Morales pulls out bins of miniature statues of cars and houses and bags of money at her home in Corona, Queens for the upcoming Bolivian festival known as Alasitas. During Alasitas participants buy miniature representations of the things they want in the New Year with…
The history of Bolivian art
Anahi Cazas writes for Pagina Siete: THE COLLECTION IS MANAGED BY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART Six paperback books cover the history of Bolivian art The books, put together the history of the national paintings since the 18th century to the present day. A collection of paperback books on the history of Bolivian art will…
More valuable archaeological findings, this time in Cochabamba!
Karen Carrillo reports for Los Tiempos: COCHABAMBA, A RICH AND INEXHAUSTIBLE SPACE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE FOR BOLIVIA More valuable archaeological findings The Department of Cochabamba is surprising more and more by the rich archaeological heritage that was discovered. This time it’s several gold-plated blades that account for cultures that inhabited from 1500 B.C. in the…
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