Street art in Medellin
Medellin will blow you away. Vibrant, warm, in a stunning location. And it has a massive street culture, stemming from the poorer barrios draped on the flanks of the mountains. There is literally street art everywhere. In swanky districts like Poblado, in the rundown Centro Historico, or in barrios like ...
Street art in Cartagena
Cartagena is the queen of the Caribbean coast. A vast metropolis with modern skyscrapers near the walled city centre, and miles and miles of poor neighborhoods all around. This is fertile ground for street art. Mainly in the Getsemani district, still within the city walls, that is being transformed from ...
The art (and museum) of Rufino Tamayo
The three big muralists of Mexico are well-known internationally: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. But there was a fourth one, often overlooked. An outsider, but at least as interesting and with a lasting legacy with his own contemporary art museum. His name is Rufino Tamayo. First ...
Brief history of Mexico
The biggest and one of the most complicated countries in Latin America. Mexico is not officially part of Central America (it belongs to North America and is closely economically aligned with the US). But its history is very much Latin, with indigenous cultures, the Spanish conquest, and a long-standing conflict ...