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Women by Women: Changing Photography For The Better
Showing at the OXO Gallery to mark International Women’s Day, ActionAid’s new exhibition Women by Women “aims to shatter stereotypes and celebrate inspiring women refugees from around the world” (ActionAid). One of five…
Hecho a Mano: A Celebration of Textiles
Spanning across three quarters of a century and eight countries, Hecho a Mano at Cecilia Brunson Projects celebrates, commemorates and interrogates the past and present of textiles as a creative medium.
A Readers Guide to Argentina
Like its music, dance, theatre and art, Latin America is producer of some of the greatest literature that exists on the planet. But in this rich forest of words, it’s not easy to know where to start. Which is why we asked our…
Luis Caballero - A Rare Insight into Queer Colombian Artistry
In ‘A Deliberate Defiance’, an exhibition of five canvases by Luis Caballero (1943-1995), London’s Cecilia Brunson Projects highlights the stories of duality and dichotomy depicted in the pioneering queer Colombian artist’s work…
Listening to Nature
“Our father, listen attentively to the voice of our rivers, listen to the fearsome trees of the great forest.” So wrote José María Arguedas in 1966. The poet, writer and anthropologist (1911-1969) is one of the most celebrated…
10 Stand Out UK Afro-Latinos y Latinas
In the last of our series celebrating Black HIstory Month...it’s time to bring it home. While the US has long been celebrating the contribution of Black Latin Americans to its culture, and life, we here in the UK also have our…
Latin Londoner #49 - Gabriela Vallim, journalist, cultural producer
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Gabriela Vallim is a journalist, cultural producer and founder of Baile Funk Culture, expanding the Brazilian street culture in the UK through events and workshops. She’s curated events at the…
'THE BREATHING ISLAND', Ismael Rodríguez’s first solo show in London
In this multi-media debut show ‘The Breathing Island, Ismael Rodríguez has focussed on life in this world. Expressing a keen awareness of the complexity and diversity of this planet, Ismael Rodríguez’s thought-provoking mixed-…
UK Colombian Creatives to be Proud of
Creativity is in any Colombians' DNA, it’s part of our necessity and hence our everyday lives. We’re celebrating Colombian Independence by shining a light on the amazing Colombian talent here in the UK. From dancers,…
Latin Londoner #48 - Gustavo Nenao, street artist
Gustavo Bordin (akak Gustavo Nenao) is a Brazilian street artist who has developed works in three continents and 42 countries and was the only Brazilian to join the selected group of artists chosen by the former U.S. first lady…
10 Latin@ LGBTQ+ Creatives in London
Over the years, London has attracted some of the finest creatives from Latin America and Spain, who have gone on to represent world class talent from the LGBTQ+ community. From the likes of a young precocious Mario Testino from…
Latin Londoner #46 - Patricia Bidi, Visual Artist
Peruvian artist Patricia Bidi has been living in London for over 20 years and exhibiting her work all over the world. After working on Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern, Patricia explores these themes in…
Untangling to Reveal
Chilean-born Cecilia Vicuña is one of Latin America’s most celebrated artists. Her most ambitious work yet is currently being shown at the Tate Modern - a multi-part installation made up of sculpture, sound, music and video. At…
'Utama' Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Utama is a journey through the eyes of a Quechua couple that are battling between life and death with the climate change crisis affecting their home, forcing them to struggle for water and food. Director Alejandro Loayza Grisi…
Mexico in Kew: A Floral Celebration of Life
“Our Day of the Dead is an affirmation of life”, says Betsabeé Romero, the internationally renowned Mexican artist who has created a riotously-colourful Día de Los Muertos installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. As…
Mexican artist Perla Krauze at the Cadogan Gallery
‘The crevices talk of what has gone before, which is life’ (Las grietas hablan de lo que ha pasado… que es vida’) Mexican sculptor and painter, Perla Krauze, is exhibiting a fascinating selection of her sculptures and…
EL TRAPECISTA (The Trapeze Artist) survives again.
Mario Flecha with his new book EL TRAPECISTA (The Trapeze artist), published in Spanish, enchants the reader with a selection of quixotic short stories.
Art as Evidence: Into the Belly of Latin American Political Posters
“Thinking Inside the Box” is an exhibition based on the archives of Latin American political art from Senate House Library, organized and led by students. The project dives into the largely unknown yet expansive collection of…
HOLOGRAM (2022) Book of poems by Miguel Cullen
‘Books should be more than just lines of poetry.’ HOLOGRAM (2022) the new collection of poems by Anglo-Argentine poet and journalist Miguel Cullen, includes visuals and videos and certainly fits the bill of being different.
'The Latin American Cookbook' by Virgilio Martinez
Danica Katich delves into a masterpiece of research, commitment to food and ode to cooking and sharing by one of Peru’s most magnificent chefs
BALLAD OF A HAPPY IMMIGRANT (2021) book of poems by Leo Boix
“Come back a man or never come!” says the refrain in the titular poem 'Ballad of a Happy Immigrant', that is, in a sense, “the story of my life”, says Leo Boix. If you are searching for a Christmas gift for a book…
Maison Cachua by Fernando Montaño
Former Royal Ballet dancer and Colombian dance megastar Fernando Montaño launches new bespoke luxury fashion brand
AMAZONAS: The Beauty of Britain's Afro-Indigenous Latinas
Carina Costa Londono brings together some of Britain’s proud Afro-Indigenous to show their natural beauty in a pioneering photo shoot
Spring Hot List 2021
Even in Lockdown you can still Think Latin, Eat Latin, Feel Latin...here's our choice of Latin must-haves and must-eats
Women in Words: Books for International Women's Day
After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman…
Pioneering Black Latina Artists
Recently we published a list of Black Heroines of Latin American History, Afro-Latinas who put their lives at risk, and in some cases gave their lives, in order to shape our history. This week we bring you the brave women who…
“Happiness is a Myth"
In his book 'You are not Meant to be Happy, so stop Trying' Basque psychiatrist Dr Rafa Euba argues that happiness is merely an ethereal ghost that inhabits our brain, not something to strive for. Released in these…
10 Queer Books from Latin America and Spain
LGBTQI+ History Month has been taking place every February in the UK since 2005 to celebrate the abolition of Section 28 in 2003 (which had previously led to the closure a number of lesbian, gay and bisexual student support…
Latin Londoner #36: Blanca Huertas, Senior Curator, Natural History Museum
Born in Bogotá, Blanca Huertas is Senior Curator of the Lepidoptera collections at the Natural History Museum. She is responsible for the direct care, development and access of the world’s largest and oldest collection of…
Latin Londoner #34: Gisella Stapleton, Artist
The unique artworks of vibrant colours, inspired by folklore and culture, with social undertones, are quickly earning a name for Peruvian artist Gisella Stapleton. Gisella’s work combines realism and abstract art, mixing figure…
Things You Should Know About...Inspiring US Afro-Latinxs
Changing the world in everything from Poetry to Baseball, from Politics to Hollywood, here, in no particular order, are just some of the US Afro-Latinos who have helped shape the American landscape and who you should definitely…
Top 10 Music Docs on Netflix
At LatinoLife we love our music and there are some great documentaries we've discovered on Netflix that we want to share...from a panoramic view into the electrifying world of Latin Rock to the fascinating lives of music…
Loathe the Word Latino? Blame it on the French!
The word ‘Latino’ may conjure up style and swagger (LatinoLife, of course, equalling all things cool). But having been created as a tool in Europe’s colonial tussle for territory, is the word really cool or has Latin America come…
10 Novels To Gift This Christmas
This list of books takes you from one corner of Latin America to the other with a special trip over the Atlantic to a lost town in the middle of Spain. We chose 9 books written by women authors in this selection where you'll…
Imagining Orwell
Award-winning Uruguayan photo-journalist Julio Etchart is one of the UK’s best known documentary photographers covering news, social and environmental issues for the international press and NGOs. His latest project is a…
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