This Saturday, March 25th is the selected date for the Tamarindo Art Wave Exhibition, presenting fine art, live performances, live music, workshops, etc. which will fill the Garden Plaza in the beach town of Tamarindo. The event comes as celebration of the first anniversary of the Tamarindo Art Wave Foundation, which supports local artists with the purpose of consolidating an Art Center where t...

The manga, anime, comics and television Matsuri International Convention will take place April 1st and 2nd at Costa Rica’s National Stadium. Austin Amelio, American actor known for his role as Dwight in the popular TV series The Walking Dead, will be participating in the festival, signing autographs, taking photos with fans, Meet and Greet and will be part of a discussion panel focused exclusiv...

This time of the year Costa Rica gets particularly colorful, as trees such as Rosy Trumpet Tree (Roble Sabana-Tabebuia rosea), the Coral Tree (Erythrina poeppigiana), the Golden Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia ochracea) and the Jacaranda, bloom, offering a magnificent spectacle. For the sixth year in a row the contest “Capture the Magic” (Capturá la magia) invites everyone to participate with photograph...

An iconic portrait of China's Communist leader Mao Zedong by Andy Warhol will be up for auction for the first time in China on April 1 at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. The portrait, dating back to 1973, is expected to fetch between $12 million and $15 million. "It is the most expensive painting from a western artist in Sotheby's Hong Kong," the auction house's Asia head Isaure de Viel Castel said ...

So, you came to Costa Rica on vacation and you want to take something back with you as a reminder of your fun time here, or maybe you live here and you need to take souvenirs back to your family abroad. The thing is, sometimes it is difficult to know where to get nice souvenirs at a good price, and more often than we’d like we end up buying them at the airport on our way out of the country, and le...

March 17th through March 19th more than 150 artistic shows will take over San Jose, in the 13th edition of Transitarte Summer Festival. Transitarte is part of the initiatives of the San José Municipality to provide artistic and cultural events to the population and part of the efforts to recover the use of public spaces, it is also an option for foreign visitors to get to know the Costa Rican c...

Creative minds will gather for three days in La Antigua Aduana building in San José, Costa Rica from March 10th to March 12th for the seventh edition of the International Design Festival (FID17). This year the event will have the presence of regarded world leaders in the areas of graphic design, photography, architecture, publicity and product design; Zosen and Mina Hamada visual artists who fo...

A little-known Salvador Dali portrait of his sister, a work out of the public eye for nearly a century, was sold at auction Thursday in London for 1.8 million pounds ($2.2 million). "Figure in Profile," sold at the Bonhams auction house's Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, is among a diverse range of portraits the prominent 20th-century Surrealist artist painted in the 1920s with Anna Maria Dal...

The Costa Rica National Museum, the Contemporary Art and Design Museum, the Calderón Guardia Museum and the Center of National Culture of the Ministry of Culture and Youth are part of the cultural offer of the first Art City Tour of 2017 to take place this Thursday, February 9th. The Art City Tour is promoted under the slogan “Por amor a Chepe” (For love of “Chepe”, Chepe being the colloquial t...

By Wendy Anders The Guardian’s recently announced 2017 travel photography competition gives readers the chance to win a fantastic 16-night wildlife holiday for two to Costa Rica with Exodus Travels – and see the photos from the trip published in Guardian Travel, reported the U.K. paper Friday. Guardian Travel’s monthly readers’ photography competition is an opportunity for amateurs and profe...

A “barrio” is a neighborhood, and that’s the topic and inspiration of this year’s edition of Traffic Museum in Costa Rica. Barrio Lujan, Barrio Los Angeles, Barrio Amón, Barrio González Lahmann, Barrio Otoya, Barrio Escalante, Barrio San Bosco and Barrio Aranjuez; are the eight iconic San José neighborhoods chosen, and that with their architecture, tradition, characters, and history inspired te...

There is a large number of art traffickers in Costa Rica, the clandestine network of art dealers has suppliers from Turrialba, Guapiles and Guanacaste who provide them with authentic native art pieces from different eras, including and especially pre-Columbian pieces, at a cheap rate, the traffickers then sell them for much more to private collectors in other countries, some disguised as replicas,...

Los Angeles, Oct 24 — A life-size statue of a completely naked Donald Trump was auctioned for $22,000. (Wikimedia Commons) As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the statue of the U.S. Republican presidential nominee, created by a street artist who in August placed it on Hollywood Boulevard, was sold at Julien's Auctions to a private collector. Prior to the auction, it has been estimated ...

Costa Rica is also home to great artists in different fields. This country has great painters, and in view of the different international art exhibits that will be displayed in Costa Rica in this next few months it is important that some of his national talent is also recognized and remembered: Maternidad (Maternity) Oil Painting by Francisco Amighetti (Costa Rica) Francisco “Paco” Amighett...

“México: Identidad Fantástica” (Mexico: Fantastic Identity) is the name of the exhibition that brings together 71 paintings and photographs of the greatest exponents of Mexican art of the first half of the 20th century. Costa Ricans will be able to enjoy this great exhibition as of November 4th at the National Museum Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia in San José. The itinerant exhibit,curated b...

An agreement between the Museo del Prado and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and an initiative of the Cultural Center of Spain, the Spanish Embassy in Costa Rica and the San Jose Municipality, will bring Costa Rican’s close to some of the artwork of the famous Museo del Prado (Spanish National Art Museum), with 60 photo reproductions to be displayed in San José...

BRUSSELS GRAFFITI (Report) Brussels' recent unidentified penis and vagina graffiti. Brussels, Sept. 23 — An anonymous artist is wreaking havoc on the streets of Brussels, a city whose authorities are flummoxed by the sudden appearance of a mysterious series of sexually-explicit graffiti showing human genitalia of gargantuan proportions. The third masterpiece in this unclaimed oeuvre, a 6-m...

(EFE).- Cuban artist Tomas Sanchez's work is the subject of "Paisaje," an exhibition that opened this weekend at Costa Rica's Museo de Arte Costarricense (Costa Rican Art Museum) in San Jose. The theme of the traveling exhibition, which runs until Nov. 28 and features eight large-format paintings, is to illustrate the imperfections of nature and the essence of human existence. The works are ...

Kaycee Landsaw (@kaycee_landsaw) is a renowned photographer based out of Salt Lake City, Utah whose work has been featured in a number of respected motorcycle and adventure lifestyle publications including Iron & Resin.       His work blends a unique candid snapshot feeling with a richness of color and perspective that allows the viewer to fall into the photograph an...

Cartoon by Clay Jones Since the 18th century, news readers have found some of the most incisive, acerbic and brutally honest commentary about current affairs in the form of political (editorial) cartoons. Regrettably, political cartoons in the 21st century have been in a state of demise that many believe is related to the death of printed newspapers; however, the death of editorial cartoons...

Galaxy Note 7 Samsung Electronics unveiled its new phablet, Galaxy Note 7, a curved-edge smartphone that comes equipped with a stylus, is fully water-resistant and boasts of an iris scanner, to the media in Seoul Thursday. The smartphone will hit the stores in the United States and South Korea on Aug. 19, after which it will be available to buy in other countries till September, a company r...

Source: Microsoft Digital photography with the iPhone just got better in Costa Rica thanks to a new app developed by Microsoft. The new app is called Pix, and it combines photography with artificial intelligence. To develop Pix, Microsoft enlisted the expertise of a professional sports photographer. The following comes from the official Microsoft press release: As a professional photogra...

By Binod Ghimire and Moncho Torres Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod claimed to be the first Indian couple to scale Mount Everest and even had photographs to prove it, but now they face a 10-year mountaineering ban in Nepal as they have been found to have used altered images and never actually reached the peak. "We have recommended the Tourism Ministry to take appropriate actions against the c...

Pixabay Commons UPeace and Veritas University Press Release -  San Jose, Costa Rica. The University for Peace worked alongside the Ombudsperson's Office of Costa Rica at the launch of the Second National Photography Contest, in Commemoration of the World Day of Peace, a day that is celebrated the 21st of September of every year. This event took place at the Roberto Sasso Sasso Auditorium wh...

Van Gogh - Starry Night. Google Cultural Institute Medellin, Colombia, May 13 (EFE).- The inauguration in this northwestern Colombian city of the multisensory exhibition "Van Gogh Alive: The Experience" will serve to immerse art lovers in the Dutch post-Impressionist painter's visionary "madness." Installed at the Plaza Mayor until June 28, when it will be taken to Bogota, the exhibition co...

(Wikimedia Commons) Washington, Apr 9 (EFE). - Several U.S. art galleries have refused to exhibit artist Illma Gore's painting of controversial magnate and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whom she portrays naked with tiny genitals. But the painting, in which Trump is seen with his arms resting on one knee, will get a showing within two weeks at Britain's Maddox Gallery in Lond...

A tourist captured images of a supposed UFO while visiting Costa Rica’s Irazu Volcano National Park in Cartago last month. The tourist reported the sighting and sent images to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an organization that maintains a database of UFO sightings around the world. According to the witness, he and his girlfriend were taking pictures of the volcano and the landscape sho...

Source: Bidrop Images BriefingWire.com - Tamarindo Beach and Playa Nosara, Costa Rica - Bidrop Images, a photography studio based in the province of Guanacaste,  recently  revamped its website to showcase stunning photography and videography. The new website of Bidrop Images is www.bidrop.com A professional photographer’s work is constantly evolving and so should the respective Web presenc...

Art City Tour San Jose, Costa Rica San Jose, March 8, 2016 - The second edition of Art City Tour 2016 will take place Under the slogan "San Jose Dreams, San Jose Designs." The Tour will welcome the International Design Festival (FID), and it aims to connect the cultural center of San José to La Sabana. More than 2,500 people are expected to take advantage of the free bus rides departing fro...

Wikimedia Commons Lima, Mar 4 (EFE).- A Frenchman, 28, and an Englishman, 23, were arrested by Peruvian tourism police for taking nude pictures of themselves at the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Cuzco region in the southeastern part of the country, police authorities said. Culture Ministry guards alerted tourism police last Wednesday to the presence of two tourists in the agri...

Source: Dourone A talented muralist from Spain whose work can be enjoyed from Madrid to Paris and from Miami to Amsterdam has chosen Jaco Beach in Costa Rica as his latest canvas. Residents and tourists in Jaco Beach can appreciate the mural painted by Dourone and his partner  Elodieloll on Pastor Diaz Street, across from the KFC restaurant. Dourone is a visual artist who started with gr...

BirdSongSOS.com Imagine a world without birdsong. Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative documentary THE MESSENGER explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey and from the streets of New York to the coffee farms of Costa Rica, ...

Source: Starbucks The Starbucks Origin Experience takes partners (employees) from behind the counters of stores, corporate offices and roasting plants and brings them to work alongside farmers in coffee growing regions. The program offers a valuable perspective for people who have a passion for coffee, but may not have a connection to the distant places where coffee is grown. Starbucks phot...

Sarco Architects Costa Rica Press Release by Saco Architects - In recognition of the outstanding quality of our services and our leadership as Costa Rica’s premiere Luxury Home Architects, at Sarco Architects Costa Rica we are extremely honoured to have been invited to participate with the St. James’ House publishers and to be featured in the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club 2016 Book Launch Event...

Fans of tattoos and body art in Costa Rica will be able to get inked for a good cause this holiday season. According to a news report filed by Paula Ruiz of national news daily La Prensa Libre, two tattoo artists wish to help homeless pets by offering discounted body art before Christmas. Cuban tattoo artists Judiel Noel and Frank Enamorado will set up shop at La Rosa Negra (The Black Rose), a ...

DelSexto blog Havana, Oct 20 (EFE). - Cuban graffiti artist Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado, who has been on a hunger strike for four days, was freed Tuesday after being jailed for 10 months without trial in a prison outside of Havana, as he himself told EFE from his family home. "I'm very happy to be here at home. What I want to do now is see my daughter and thank everybody who made such an ou...

First issue of Playboy, 1953. Wikimedia Commons International Desk, Oct 13 (EFE).- Playboy magazine says it will stop publishing pictures of completely nude women next spring. Scott Flanders, the magazine's CEO, told The New York Times of the pending change in policy, justifying it by saying that "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passé at th...

Eighty-one countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Academy Awards®. Paraguay is a first-time entrant. This year's consideration submitted by Costa Rica is Presos (English title: Imprisoned), the third feature film by acclaimed director Esteban Ramirez. The Internet Movie Database plot summary for Imprisoned is as follows: A young g...

Photo by Rafael Mantesso By Carol Blair Vaughn American mega-corporation TARGET has always had its bull terrier mascot named “Bullseye”, but now the upscale footwear brand Jimmy Choo has a rival bull terrier, named – wait for it – Jimmy Choo. Jimmy Choo (The Dog) belongs to Brazilian photographer and artist Rafael Mantesso, and Mantesso and the dog have a new book coming out in October t...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Since Costa Rica is blessed with a Caribbean coastline, many diving and snorkeling enthusiasts tend to pursue their passion on that side of the country, thereby missing out on the great opportunities located on the opposite side. The northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica is home to an underwater paradise, but there are issues with visibility that can alleviated with th...