At the supermarket, you wrestle your individually wrapped, double-bagged groceries into your backpack and take in the sight of Santiago’s halo...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 27.08.2010
Paloma Villalobos es un nombre de moda en estos días. La razón, su exhibición de fotografía en la muy vanguardista Galería AFA de Santiago...
Written by Leonardo Moena - 06.07.2010
Three different women with three different perspectives of Chile’s military rule used their lenses to either provoke historical memories, shar...
Written by Elaine Madrigal - 28.06.2010
How do we document a natural disaster that was over within just three minutes? How do we remember a geography that changed or was destroyed so r...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 17.06.2010
La Ciudad Líquida, the poetic photographic exhibition held at the Estación Mapocho will take you places you never thought to look. Look at lit...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 20.05.2010
Thought provoking, self reflective, barrier breaking, challenging and confusing were the journey of words that your mind took when entering Már...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 15.05.2010
Avant-garde is not usually a word that one might associate with Chile; however the controversial and innovative work of Juan Downey successfully...
Written by Freddi Miller - 13.05.2010
“Not impressed, so what is the message?” was a comment I found scribbled in the guestbook before heading into the Identidades Forzadas photo...
Written by Marie Drucker-Allister - 03.05.2010
How 123 delicate artifacts including some 13 life-sized terracotta figures have managed to survive over 2000 years in almost pristine conditions...
Written by Gida Homad-Hamam - 04.01.2010
Berlin is a city whose character has been defined by change. When the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago, two entirely different worlds came cras...
Written by Nidhi Prakash - 23.11.2009
With a mop of unkempt, curly hair and thin-framed eyeglasses, Chilean sculptor Tótila Albert (1892-1967) looks more like feverish mathematician...
Written by Meera Pandit - 09.11.2009
“Collective memory,” a term coined by French philosopher Maurice Halbwachs, separates itself from individual memory in the most basic of way...
Written by Gida Homad-Hamam - 09.11.2009
Peacefully shrouded from the clamor and chaos of Santiago’s hectic streets, the Silvia Piñeiro exhibition room in the Montecarmelo art center...
Written by Nadine Custis - 02.11.2009
A unique religious festival takes place in Chile's rural areas the Sunday following Easter Sunday. Known as Quasimodo Sunday, on this day the p...
Written by Abigail Wilkinson - 19.10.2009
The everyday challenge of building a new life in a foreign city is something all newcomers to Santiago can relate to. The Peruvian community con...
Written by Nidhi Prakash - 04.10.2009
Plasticine, a word your Word Processor spell-checker won’t recognize, is a fancier version of Play-Doh (also called modeling compound) used by...
Written by Silvia Viñas - 07.09.2009
Large black and white prints of Aurora “Lola” Falcon’s (1907-2000) work fill the space at the MAC gallery in Santiago: New York City in th...
Written by Charlotte Mountford - 31.08.2009
Long before Condorito, Chile´s favourite comic-book condor, plopped onto the scene, there was another beloved Chilean comic that began in 1908 ...
Written by Sofia Carvajal - 27.07.2009
Upon entering the Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), the [re][des]arm[o] exhibition stands out immediately as a burst of color, light and sound. Th...
Written by Celina Carroll - 15.06.2009
Usually when visiting a museum, one does not expect to hear much noise other than the steps of other attendees taking in the exhibit. However, t...
Written by Michelle Lezana - 15.06.2009
In the Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) and in Espacio Arteabierto Itaú there is a Brazilian exhibit that displays a radical change in modern phot...
Written by Michelle Lezana - 08.06.2009
"Would you like a cup of tea?" asks Gabriela Alvarez as I enter her art studio in the bohemian Barrio Brasil. I accepted the offer in...
Written by Emmanuelle Lebhar - 01.06.2009
Chilean photographer Cristián Soto Lopez’s exhibition "Músicos, luces e instrumentos" (musicians, lights and instruments) captures...
Written by Celina Carroll - 01.06.2009
Viewing the "Un Tiatro" photo exhibit is like secretively watching a troop of actors getting ready for a performance. They are childre...
Written by Meredith Hama-Brown - 18.05.2009
Puerto Montt, the gateway to Patagonia and Chiloé, Mapuches in the south, the port town of Valparaíso; all sights that capture the attention o...
Written by Colin Bennett - 11.05.2009
Chile's industry on a personal scale. The work of photographer Luis Ladrón de Guevara meshes together the workers’ softness of human charac...
Written by Colin Bennett - 11.05.2009
The first thing one sees upon entering the Comunidad Ficticia ("Fictitious Community") video exhibition is what looks like an enormous...
Written by Meredith Hama-Brown - 04.05.2009
At first glance, the paintings of Ximena Mandiola’s Ecuaciones (“Equations”) look like a child’s rendering of The Matrix. Painted rows o...
Written by Celina Carroll - 27.04.2009
There are no giggling faces, signs of mischievousness or innocent puppy-dog eyes--only stern, somber faces of austerity. In Santiago's Mall Pl...
Written by Rebecca Novell - 16.04.2009
"Video art is like pornography. In pornography anything goes as long as there's sex, just as anything filmed can be video art," said N...
Written by Meredith Hama-Brown - 28.03.2009
The Universidad Finis Terrae art collective congregates at the Galería Artespacio to present the best works of its rising student artists. Se...
Written by Victor Soto - 05.03.2009
Photo courtesy Diego Molina
The Biblioteca de Santiago is showcasing Síndrome de abstinencia ("Abstinence syndrome"), an exhibit...
Written by Marisa Muñoz - 24.02.2009
At 13 years old Margarita Dittborn was given a camera and hasn't stopped taking pictures since. She swears she's always wanted to be a photog...
Written by Malena Higashi - 29.01.2009
Two for the price of one is always a good deal, and in this case the exhibits of arguably the most famous artist duo in the world are also under...
Written by Karlee Johnson - 11.01.2009
If you’ve ever wondered what a modern-day version of the old troll rapist El Trauco of Chilean mythology would look like,* Doife Videla offe...
Written by Colette Bernasconi - 28.12.2008
Look through the camera of Diofel Videla and you may discover that what you see is not always what meets the lens.
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Written by Administrator - 26.12.2008
Though stylish Gallería Matthei sits on Santiago´s city outskirts, the striking spectacle of Eleomar Puente´s recent works exhibited in Histo...
Written by Rebecca Novell - 19.12.2008
A very interesting and innovative exposition was opened to the public on Thursday, October 23.
The exhibit, “Flashback: Chilean Movie ...
Written by Carlita Álvarez Iglesias - 27.11.2008
If you haven't already caught Chuck Close's exhibit at Pontificia Universidad Catolica this season, it's better late than never.
Photo by Je...
Written by Jeff Kennel - 24.11.2008
Be it big-breasted women in Brazil, a couple going in for a kiss in Chile, or an old wrinkled man slurping some maté in Argentina, Englishman M...
Written by Rebecca Novell - 12.11.2008
Two photographic expositions from one of the most renowned 20th-century photojournalists and a contemporary Chilean photographer are on exhibit ...
Written by Colette Bernasconi - 08.11.2008
While perusing a gallery displaying oversized rock, I soon realized that sculptor and architect Maria Soledad Chadwick’s underwater treasures ...
Written by Marta Wilson-Barthes - 01.11.2008
A small but detailed set of sketches from German Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass is on display in the foyer of the National Library in Santiago....
Written by Kavita Bedford - 16.10.2008
Free association game: when I say “smoking”, what do you think of?
Smokers perhaps think of pleasure or dependency, whereas non-smokers ...
Written by Colette Bernasconi - 12.10.2008
Modern Mexico City cannot escape the past. Built upon the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, the ancient roots of the city pervade everyd...
Written by Natalie Hart - 05.10.2008
Hunting the shadows of nature is how artist Manel Esclusa describes the intentions that drive his photography. Golden fields of wheat and casca...
Written by Kavita Bedford - 01.10.2008
According to Octavio Paz, it is during the vibrancy and intensity of a fiesta that Mexicans reveal their true colors. If the same can be said o...
Written by Natalie Hart - 29.09.2008
To the right, a torso of a sushi boy reclining at a bar, to the left Mexican luchador masks, and all the while Indian music sets the ambiance. T...
Written by Kavita Bedford - 11.09.2008
As children, we each had our private monsters and often these creatures would find their way into the light through our scrawled, strange, fanta...
Written by Kavita Bedford - 05.09.2008
