That Unexpected Window to Venezuela's Past: Historical Cinema
Some of the best films made in Venezuela, such as Alidha Ávila's "Sucre," reconstruct and question patriotic religion or identity myths
Tag: Art
Javier Téllez: “We Must Learn from Madness”
The Venezuelan artist, recently awarded the Pérez Museum Miami’s annual prize, reflects in this conversation on categories of insanity and the richness of marginalized voices, shaped by their distinct ways of seeing reality
Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles’ Quest for an Alternative National Epic
One of the most celebrated writers of contemporary Venezuela just published the first of four novels around a fictional music band. Its goal: To use that story as an indirect mirror of our country’s mutation
The Return of Marisol
The largest solo exhibition of the late Venezuelan-American visual artist just opened in Montreal before going to three other museums in the US. With more than 250 pieces, it reframes for today’s sensibilities the vision of a woman ahead of her times
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