News Venezuela Culture: Brazil challenges Russia, China on Venezuela crisis
Brazil’s foreign minister has plunged immediately into the divisive question of Venezuela to launch a meeting of senior officials from Russia, China, India and South Africa, urging them to hear Venezuelans’ ”cry for freedom.”
News Venezuela Culture: Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies in Paris
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with color and the style known as kinetic art, has died in Paris. He was 95. "Your love, your joy, your teachings and your colors, will remain forever in our hearts," said a family statement posted on Cruz-Diez's art foundation website. It did not give a cause of his death on Saturday and said funeral services will be private. Cruz-Diez developed a reputation as one of Latin America's most prominent artists in the second half of the 20th century. His installations have been featured in major international art museums and public spaces. His work has recently been on display in exhibitions in Paris, London, Saudi Arabia and Panama, his website said. "Nobody understood the mystery of color like him," Venezuelan writer Leonardo Padrón said on Twitter. "Your work transcended barriers and filled us with pride as Venezuelans," said opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who is in a power struggle with President Nicolás Maduro as the country endures a humanitarian crisis. "I'm not from the past, I'm from today," Cruz-Diez said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York in 2008. He said he defined himself as an "explorer." Cruz-Diez explored "the ambiguity of color," sometimes creating art with transparent strips of material that filtered light and showed different color combinations to viewers moving around his artwork, his website said. Cruz-Diez studied art in Caracas and, after graduating, worked as an artistic director for the U.S. advertising agency then known as McCann Erickson and illustrator for Venezuela's El Nacional newspaper. In 1957, he founded a visual arts school in Caracas and moved to Paris two years later to pursue art. He made his...
News Venezuela Culture: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies at 95
Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for ... Latin America was in a state of “cultural dependence” early in his career, he said. “We went to Europe to look for ...
News Venezuela Culture: Maduro Offers to Establish Permanent Peace Dialogue with Venezuelan Opposition
Earlier in July, the Venezuelan authorities announced that the government and the opposition had agreed to engage in a permanent peace dialogue. The sides have been holding the talks in Barbados with ...
News Venezuela Culture: Carpentry, mechanics, and chocolate help promote work culture in Venezuela
Around 10 years ago, in the hectic streets of Caracas, a project began that seeks to bring hope to the most remote areas of Venezuela. It is called “Trabajo y Persona,” and is a non-profit civil ...
News Venezuela Culture: Muslim countries joined China in defending its cultural genocide of Uighurs. Aren’t they ashamed?
The signatories included the usual global rogue’s gallery — Cuba, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela. But a dozen Muslim governments ... Bahram Sintash: China is trying to destroy Uighur culture. We’re ...
News Venezuela Culture: More Displaced Venezuelan Students Are Receiving Scholarships For Music Education
Like many Venezuelan expats living in South Florida ... to low-income families by The Children’s Trust and the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. "They gave me a scholarship, so it ...
News Venezuela Culture: In a United Nations Report, a Socialist Details Venezuela’s Horrors
Twenty years after Hugo Chávez gained power in Venezuela, promising a workers’ paradise, the United Nations has finally acknowledged that his regime and that of his successor, Nicolás Maduro, is a brutal dictatorship guilty of widespread human-rights abuses and of policies that have led to economic deprivation.The
News Venezuela Culture: Venezuelan migrants take arepas to new lands amid crisis
“For us, the arepa represents Venezuela,” says Alejandra Castro, who opened an arepa business in Buenos Aires, Argentina over a year ago. “It’s our culture, our daily bread. What one misses and longs ...
News Venezuela Culture: Chevron could be forced out of Venezuela after 100 years
Between 2006 and 2016, Chevron said it invested more than $94 million in areas it operates in Venezuela as well as on national cultural programs. Those investments include a modern math and reading ...
News Venezuela Culture: Cummings: U.S. should proceed with caution when dealing with Venezuela
Venezuela has historically been one of the wealthiest Latin American countries. It is a nation rich in oil and natural resources.It has been a significant trading partner of the United States with specific relevance for the Midwest. Venezuela last year imported $374 million worth of agricultural products from the U.S., the top foods being corn, wheat and soy. Now, in Venezuela’s political crisis, food is one of its scarcest resources.Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s rule
News Venezuela Culture: Colombia's president Iván Duque talks about tackling climate change, Venezuela crisis
Colombian President Iván Duque spoke about his country's ongoing efforts around climate issues, the crisis in neighboring Venezuela and the illicit drug trade in a brief interview with NBC News.
News Venezuela Culture: World Creativity series brings Venezuela to Capital city
The Art Center continued its World Creativity series this month introducing us to Venezuelan culture. Organizers say this hidden paradise is filled with music, dancing and delicious exotic dishes. ...
News Venezuela Culture: Miami's Los Wizzards Jam in the Name of Latin Culture
Two and a half years ago, the band began to form when Wizzmer, an established producer and cuatro player in his native Venezuela, was jamming at open mikes around Doral. “I started performing open ...
News Venezuela Culture: When Your Country Is On Fire, There's Always Softball
In Venezuela, baseball is as much a part of everyday life as arepas or Joropo, but the game hasn’t really penetrated Peruvian sports culture, which remains soccer-crazed. When Freddy started ...
News Venezuela Culture: Afro-Venezuelan Culture and Resistance: A Conversation with Ines Perez-Wilke
Ines Perez-Wilke is an activist and researcher who works on issues of black and mestizo cultural production – particularly inprovisational performance – from a decolonial perspective. A professor at ...
