Michaela Vargas reports for Remezcla: In October 2019, Bolivia took center stage in the news as mass protests and social division exploded over the contested presidential election. Bolivia’s first high profile Indigenous president, Evo Morales, was nearing the end of his near 14-year presidency and sought re-election. Mass protests and violence ensued and Morales obtained asylum…
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Bolivia’s Most Colorful Neighborhood
Bloomberg’s colorful video:
The historical and critical narration of Querejazu about national pictorial art
Caio Ruvenal reports for Opinion: Interview with the author of the book Painting in Bolivia in the XXth Century (BBB) that is presented, in a second revised and expanded edition, next Thursday 23 at the Melchor Pinto Cultural Center in Santa Cruz. In 1989, the Banco Hipotecario Nacional, celebrating its centenary, launched the book Bolivian…
Mamani Mamani paints seven buildings in El Alto
Milen Saavedra reports for Pagina Siete: With this project, the artist plans to enter the Guinness Mamani Mamani paints seven buildings in El Alto They are 14 murals painted on buildings of 12 floors of a condominium at the Mercedario neighborhood of Villa Adela. The grandmother, the sage, the kid [lloqalla], the condor and the…
Bolivian watercolorist creates drawing paper: Jesus Florido
El Diario reports: Watercolorist creates drawing paper The Cochabamba artist Jesus Florido makes a show of watercolors in the Hall Cecilio Guzman de Rojas [05/15/2015]. Unlike other artists he creates his own drawing paper which he called OdirolF which means his name read backwards. The idea that came to a need for lack of a…
Bolivian artist: Bernardo Siles’s recent paintings
From the Washington Post, an except that mentions a gifted Bolivian, follows: Theater & Dance Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’ BY MARK JENKINS May 30 Cleanly rendered lengths of mostly pastel color overlap, sometimes densely and occasionally not at all, in Bernardo Siles’s recent paintings. The Bolivian-born D.C. artist draws on the…
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