Art – Photography
This Monday, October 5, Costa Rica reached a grand total of 81,129 confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of which 49,703 have recovered. 1004 people have died in relation to this virus and 570 people are currently hospitalized, 212 of them remain in the intensive care unit. Despite this, the Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce, Victoria Hernández announced the decision to reopen bars and casin...
The last Art City Tour of the year will take place November 22 this time the theme is “Night in White: Tour in Augmented Reality” and it will offer 100 activities in 36 spaces. Art City Tours are free cultural events that take the public in night tours through different emblematic places of San Jose, Costa Rica; museums, galleries, historic buildings, etc . with the objective not only of promot...
Perez Zeledon (also known as San Isidro de El General) is the agricultural epicenter of the southern zone: coffee, pineapples, sugar cane, bananas, and every imaginable vegetable abounds in this fertile valley of El General. No one, however, associates Perez with art – until the emergence of Melissa Matamoros, owner, curator and director of the newest art gallery in Costa Rica, La Terraza del Arti...
ColorTexturePhotoTours, provider of exceptional photography tours in the United States and Costa Rica, has released its 2020 Costa Rica photo tour schedule. “We are excited about the 2020 Costa Rica photo tour season and have created new itineraries so clients have more options. We also reduced the size of each tour to only four clients so each client gets even more help creating better images,...
If you want to discover San José in a fun and different way try the Art City Tour this Wednesday, July 10, the best of all, it is entirely FREE. This edition of the Art City Tour, “Vacation in Chepe” (Chepe being the way Costa Ricans’ refer to the capital city of San Jose) will take participants to enjoy the cultural offer of San José and its surrounding areas. It will connect activities that t...
The third edition this year of the Art City Tour is scheduled to take place May 15, “Chepe de Moda” (“Chepe in Style”, Chepe being the way Costa Ricans’ refer to the capital city of San Jose)w will connect once again activities in different museums, galleries, cultural centers, historical buildings and open spaces in downtown San Jose, including the neighborhoods, Amón, Otoya, Escalante and Sabana...
The Tansitarte Festival 2019 in San José will fill this weekend with art, music, activities and entertainment for the entire family. The activities take place in the main public parks of downtown San Jose, where different stages have been installed for open air concerts as well as stands for the offering of different products. The complete list of activities and schedule of the same can be fou...
Madame Butterfly, opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini will be presented for the third time by the National Lyric Company (CLN) at the Melico Salazar Theater in San José, Costa Rica. The presentations are expected at the end of July, beginning of August, however dates have yet not been officially defined, the CLN has confirmed five presentations. The production of the opera will have the...
The Russian Classical Ballet Company will bring the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet to Costa Rica’s Melico Salazar Theater on May 18 and May 19. With 35 dancers, the renown Russian Classical Ballet Company will present the complete version of this William Shakespeare classic with the music of Sergei Prokofiev. “There isn’t a more romantic and eternal love story than that of Romeo and...
The work of Costa Rican sculptor Jorge Jiménez Deredia will transform the city of San José in an open air museum, an exhibit including 27 of his pieces will be in display from February 20 through July 14, 2019. Some of the pieces are already displayed in different areas of downtown San José, but the exhibit will be officially inaugurated on February 20. Boulevards, open spaces and parks will ...
If you enjoy the theater, The Little Theater Group has several presentations this month as part of the February 2019 Costa Ria National Tour. The theatrical group will have several presentations in different parts of the country, including, this Sunday, February 10 in Playa Hermosa; February 16 in Atenas; February 17 in Puriscal, February 23 in Santa Ana and a final show on February 24 in San ...
The already traditional Art City Tour, returns this 2019 with the first event of the year “Por amor a Chepe”, “For the Love of Chepe” (chepe being the way Costa Ricans' refer to the capital city of San Jose), scheduled on February 14, the ideal option for a fun and different Valentine’s Day. Art City Tours are cultural events that take the public in night tours through different emblematic plac...
Costa Rican stand-up comedian, actor, writer, director and producer, Hernán Jiménez will have the premier of his first English-language film “Elsewhere” this April in Costa Rica. With a cast including Ken Jeong (The Hangover 1,2) Parker Posey (Café Society, The House of Yes, Superman Returns), Beau Bridges (The Millers, Desperate Housewives, Code Black), Aden Young (Rectify), Jacki Weaver (Silv...
Photo: Javier Lobon-Rovira A photograph taken at Veragua Rainforest in Limon, Costa Rica has been named a Highly Honored Finalist in the prestigious 2018 Windland Smith Rice Awards for Nature's Best Photography. The photograph will be featured in the 23rd Annual Windland Smith Rice International Awards Smithsonian Exhibition at the famed Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washi...
Opening the month of December with great ballet presentations has become a tradition in Costa Rica, this year is no exception as fans will be able to enjoy Alice in Wonderland and The Nutcracker. Alice in Wonderland, a contemporary ballet that gathers more than 70 dancers and actors, will take the National Theater in San Jose for third consecutive year. Tickets can be purchased with a 20% disco...
This weekend the Costa Rican Philharmonic Orchestra will pay tribute to some of the best guitar players of all times. With their unique and characteristic style that has earned them a huge fan base and has ensured that all their shows sell out, the proposal of Director Marvin Araya this time around is to highlight the work of famous guitar players such as Jimi Hendrix, Gilmour, Clapton, J. Page...
Rafael Angel Fernández Piedra, best known as Rafa Fernández once dreamed of being a bullfighter or maybe a singer, but it was the artist in him that took over, Costa Ricans were lucky to enjoy his talent, the one captured in his paintings for many decades and until this Sunday, September 9, when he passed away at age 82. Costa Rica mourns the death of Fernández, one of the most renown artists the...
Starting this Thursday, August 23, everyone will have easy access to enjoy Costa Rican art virtually through the website ArteCostaRica.cr. This is the first Virtual Museum of Costa Rican Art, and includes works by artists from the XIX century and through the decade of 1970. “Pincel Pinacoteca” (Paint Brush Art Gallery) is the result of the work of the University of Costa Rica’s professor eme...
The Municipal Band of Acosta received this past Sunday, August 19 its official accreditation to participate in the California Rose Parade. This will be the only music band in Latin America to participate in the traditional and prestigious event that takes place every January 1st. The act in which the accreditation was awarded took place at the San Ignacio de Acosta church gym, and had the ...
The XII edition of Valoarte will be held August 9th through August 31st in the fourth floor of the Texas Tech University building in Avenida Escazu, San Jose, Costa Rica. The Valoarte Project is an art exhibit and art sale with the purpose of benefiting youth in social risk through the Hogar SIembra foundation. This year’s exhibit will showcase the work of Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo (1899...
The fourth Art City Tour of the year is scheduled for this Wednesday, July 11, “Vacaciones en Chepe” (Vacation in San Jose) invites locals and foreigners to get acquainted with some of the capital city’s wonders. This is the 52nd tour of this program that first started in 2010 and has allowed over 80 thousand people to discover some of the jewels that San Jose has to offer and that often go un...
Costa Rican short film “Sudden Death”, directed by Kenneth Sanabria, was selected last year to compete in the New York Latino Film Festival, and now it was also picked to participate in the NewFilmmakers event in Los Angeles. NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) is a non-profit organization “designed to showcase innovative works by emerging filmmakers from around the world”. The international e...
The Sophia Wanamaker Galleries from the Costa Rican –North American Cultural Center (CCCN) will offer as of this Monday, June 18 the National Geographic Photo Exhibit. “Adventure, biodiversity, landscapes, culture, urban and wildlife, were captured by the lenses of National Geographic photographers for the photo exhibit of NatGeo Experience 2018 that the CCCN brings for you”, states the Gallery...
Get up close to see a heart, lungs, skull and even a brain, at the “Yo Humano: All Bodies” exhibit at the National Gallery in Costa Rica that will be open through June 17. “With the clear objective of raising awareness among the public on the importance of the care, protection and proper use of the different structures that make up the human body, the exhibit shows how our body is formed biol...
The Shnit Worldwide ShortFilmFestival is taking submissions from short film producers who want to participate in this years’ edition which will take place at the Magaly theater, October 17 through the 21. All Central American directors and production companies that are interested in exhibiting their short film as well as national filmmakers are invited to take part of this excellent platform. ...
“New Acquisitions” (Nuevas Adquisiciones) is the name of the exhibit that the Costa Rican Art Museum chose to celebrate its 40th anniversary with all art lovers in Costa Rica. The exhibit is available in the Temporary Room and gathers a selection of 36 works. Between April 2016 and April 2018 the Costa Rican art Museum acquired 131 works of art through purchases and donations by artists a...
The University of Tarapacá in Chile, confirmed the exhibition of the mummies of the Chinchorro culture at the Jade Museum in Costa Rica from May 11 to May 31. The ancient mummies of the Chinchorro culture are over 7000 years old. The Chinchorros inhabited what is now northern Chile, the coast of the Atacama Desert from Ilo in Peru all the way to Antofagasta in Chile, they lived off fishing, hun...
The Costa Rican Youth Ballet (Ballet Juvenil Costarricense -BJC) announced the creation of the first Professional Classic Ballet Company in Costa Rica. With 24 years of experience, the BJC is creating the National Ballet of Costa Rica with the purpose of giving Costa Rica its first formal classic ballet company, “we want to give the country an artistic and cultural gift for the enjoyment of ...
Cézanne-Portraits of a Life is the new documentary film part of the program Exhibition on Screen that will be screened at the Magaly movie theater in Barrio La California, on Tuesday, April 24 and Sunday, April 29. Paul Cézanne was a French artist and post-impressionist painter, Portraits of Life is dedicated to his portrait work, “One can’t appreciate 20th century art without understanding the...
In just the first three months of this 2018, the Costa Rica Investigative Police (OIJ) and the National Museum recovered 266 archaeological pieces. Alejandro Fernandez, investigator of OIJ, stated "These pieces are put on sale by collectors through websites and even through Facebook groups"; Fernandez confirmed that the number of pieces recovered so far is already higher than the total number r...
The President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, signed this April 4th Law Number 9521 which declares the National Theater (Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica) a National Symbol of Historic Architectural Heritage and Cultural Liberty. "Costa Rica pays tribute to its National Theater and recognizes it as a national symbol. In this way we seal the beautiful relation that links our emblematic archite...
The XVI edition of the International Festival of the Arts (FIA) in Costa Rica will officially kick off this Friday, April 6 and will extend through April 15. This year's FIA will once again offer different artistic presentations, music, dance, theater, literature, etc. In total 92 artistic groups (national and international), will bring people closer to culture, art and entertainment. B...
The second edition of the popular Art City Tour in its 2018 season will take place March 14 under the slogan “Chepe nos une” (Chepe unites us) (Chepe is the way Costa Ricans’ refer to the capital city of San Jose). The free event will begin at 5 p.m. and conclude at 9 p.m. Remember these tours can be done by bus or foot. “ 'Chepe nos une' is a metaphor that honors the dynamic of the city as ...
If you truly appreciate art, you can’t miss this new film of the program Exhibition on Screen that will have only two screenings, one on Tuesday, March 6 and the second one on Sunday, March 11. David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts: A bigger picture 2012 & 82 portraits and one still-life 2016. "David Hockney is Britain’s most popular artist and arguably equally popular around the globe....
Marcos Vose actually lives in the tree house of his mind overlooking water falls, tropical-rain forests, white-faced monkeys, majestic macaws, silent panthers and red-eyed frogs under blue skies, white puffy clouds and day moons. He has many paintings that reveal his address but no photographs -- for his world becomes reality at the end of his paintbrush. Rarely does anyone describe a fine-art ...
Photo Credit: Esteban Chinchilla / FIA 2017 The XVI edition of the International Festival of the Arts (FIA) in Costa Rica will take place April 6 through April 15, and will include a total of 92 artistic groups, 18 participating countries and 162 presentations. Under the slogan “The window to discover art”, the FIA will bring together over 1100 professionals in 7 main sites that include, th...
The art exhibit “Detrás del Portón Rojo: una visión de la erótica en el arte costarricense” (Behind the Red Gate: A Vision of the Erotic in Costa Rican Art”) is showcased at the Costa Rican Art Museum (MAC). This art movement has been present in different ways since the Pre-Columbian era in Costa Rica; the exhibit is centered in the notion of the erotic as a natural reality of the human being, ...
This year’s first date of the Art City Tour will happen February 9 and it is titled “Por amor a chepe” or “For the Love of Chepe” (chepe being the way Costa Rican’s refer to the capital city of San Jose), tours inspired in Valentine’s Day and with the goal of making many fall in love with the city of San Jose. Art City Tours are cultural events that take place every two months and take the publ...
The 2018 edition of the Tamarino Art Wave Festival “En-light” comes loaded with art, music and entertainment. The vibrant beach town is ready to offer visitors and residents an exciting weekend on January 25 through January 27. As usual local and foreign artist, close to 200 in total, will be showcasing their talent; a gigantic art piece shaped as a fish and made with recycled materials will “e...
The Magaly Movie Theater and the Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center begin their 2018 season of Exhibition on Screen several documentary style films that tell the stories of famous painters and that are created in high quality exclusively for movie theaters around the world. This year the works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) will kick off the season, Exhibition on Screen brought together th...