Source: Saatchi Art COSTA RICA, ZEPHYR PALACE (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 -- Without a doubt, the work of Marco Battaglini (Verona, Italy, 1969) echoes the anxiety inherent in Western society during the 21st century. This artist’s work confronts us with an esthetic shock, a style charged with eclecticism and a touch of humor that brings a smile to the spectator’s face while begging questions abou...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Yaveo is throwing its first-ever virtual film festival to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The Spanish-language streaming entertainment service is a premier sponsor of the 2015 Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival. Yaveo will show its support of Latino cinema in 2 more ways. A virtual film festival will run on the Yaveo streaming servi...

A wooden wedding bed carved with 138 figures from the Kama Sutra and a murder weapon shaped like a penis from the Stanley Kubrik film "A Clockwork Orange" are some of the pieces on show at the World Erotic Art Museum, or WEAM, the second-largest of its kind in the world, in Miami Beach. The museum has more than 4,000 erotic objects and artworks by such iconic artists as Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso...

Still from Cosmos Laundromat. Source: Blender Pataz Studio, a boutique 3D animation and computer graphic imaging (CGI) outfit from Costa Rica, is currently involved in the Gooseberry Open Movie Project, coordinated by Blender. The Gooseberry Project consists of a feature film titled Cosmos Laundromat, which is written and produced by a coalition of more than 12 international animation studi...

Adult film actress Mia Malkova in Costa Rica. Source: Holly Randall Tumblr In March 2014, a renowned photographer and film director from the United States was plying her erotic trade in Costa Rica. Holly Randall was photographing pornographic model Mia Malkova at a waterfall, and the photographer shared her experience about working in Costa Rica on her Tumblr social media page: Finally my sho...

Source: Christopher Gillette Facebook The charismatic biologist and wildlife photographer Christopher Gillette is currently on his sixth visit to Costa Rica. Mr. Gillette, better known as Crocodile Chris, has appeared on various television programs broadcast by the Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, History, and E! Entertainment. According to a report by Teletica Channel 7 News, Mr. Gillette a...

2015 National Geographic Photo Contest Winner WASHINGTON (Aug. 3, 2015)—Selected from more than 17,000 entries, an underwater photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale taken by Anuar Patjane Floriuk of Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, has won the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest grand prize. Floriuk wins an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the ...

An entertainment android. Source: Wikimedia Commons By Mar Centenera Buenos Aires, Jul 27 (EFE).- Are androids creative? The question becomes inevitable when faced with robots that create portraits of whoever poses in front of them, an avatar dancer that improvises choreographies, and a computer that creates its own language at the exhibition of artificial intelligence that opened over the ...

Scriptapalooza The Scriptapalooza Fellowship program was developed to honor dedicated writers and to help accommodate their creative process and skills. Creativity has many interruptions; most of them legitimate reasons, such as dealing with life. Isolating yourself from all of your demands is not an easy task. "This new fellowship will give its recipient the opportunity to focus solely on his...

National Museum of Costa Rica By Maria Jose Brenes San Jose, Jun 22 (EFE).- The San Jose Museum Walking Tour, which goes on for less than a kilometer (about half a mile) through the Costa Rican capital, reveals the sounds, origins, use and morphology of the musical instruments that sounded in pre-Columbian communities. Under the title "Ancestral Echoes," the Central Bank Museum of Costa ...

Works by Juan Ortiz Apuy TORONTO, June 22, 2015 /CNW/ - Toronto's first and only gallery dedicated to Latin American Art opens on June 27 as part of the Pan Am Path Art Relay, with a thought-provoking and timely exhibition "Sportsmanship Under Surveillance." As the city prepares for the spectacle of the 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games, concerns are already beginning to arise about the impact...

(June 17, 2014 - TransWorld Business) – In a nod to its fun-filled heritage, MyPakage is rewarding fans for getting after it this summer with the return of the Permission To Play contest. Whether you’re soaking up rays on the lake, adventuring in the woods, partying with friends, jumping out of airplanes, swimming with dolphins or dancing up a storm, MyPakage is giving away a 13-day trip to Costa ...

Source: Imgur A mysterious work of art painted with hyperrealistic overtones has attracted the attention of the massively popular online portal Reddit. The painting features a scene familiar to those who transit the Avenida Central (Central Avenue) boulevard, a heavy pedestrian traffic artery that bisects the capital city of Costa Rica from east to west.   The first online mention o...

WASHINGTON (April 7, 2015)—National Geographic invites photographers from around the world to enter the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. The grand-prize winner will receive an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal for two. The contest, which is open now, ends Tuesday, June 30, at 12 p.m. EDT. Eligible contestants can visit natgeo.com/t...

Salvador Allende. Wikimedia Commons Cannes, France, May 24 (EFE).- The 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival had few Latin American films in the running this year, but most of them came away with important awards, including Mexico's Michel Franco with Best Screenplay for "Chronic." Franco was the only Hispanic in the running for the Palme d'Or with a complex film shot entirely in English...

"Les femmes d’Alger, Picasso, version O" by Source (WP:NFCC#4). Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia New York, May 21 (EFE).- A Qatari sheikh was the buyer who paid $179.36 million for Pablo Picasso's "Les femmes d'Alger," making it the priciest painting ever auctioned, the daily New York Post reported Thursday. The mysterious buyer of the Spanish painter's work was identified by the New Y...

Source: A Small Section of the World San Diego, CA, May 11, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The San Diego Coffee Network in conjunction with sponsors Earth’s Choice, Daymar Coffee and PureFlo, will be screening the film “A Small Section of the World” at Balboa Park’s Museum of Photographic Arts, Wednesday, May 20. Doors open for a pre-event mixer at 6 p.m. with the film beginning at 7:30 p.m. Five-dollar...

Wikimedia Commons SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - April 13, 2015) - Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced the launch of its Harmonic Video Network (HVN), an OTT video streaming service available at www.hvn.tv. Designed to provide video engineers with a valuable source of information related to video delivery infrastructure, the HVN-1 chann...

ENOB - Basquiat, 1985. Flickr Commons By Mateo Sancho Cardiel New York, Apr 3 (EFE).- He was among the most influential yet one of the shortest-lived artists of the second half of the 20th century, but the complicated mind of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which raised him to fame and plunged him into self-destruction, has a roadmap in the eight hand-written notebooks being exhibited starting Friday...

Source: Wikimedia Commons The life and times of one of the most iconic and controversial musicians in the history of rock 'n' roll have been adapted for the stage by a Costa Rica-based author. Some readers of The Costa Rica Star and Jaco Beach residents are familiar with Britt Nelson, a man with a long and illustrious journalism career in the United States. Growing up in the DC area in the ...

Source: Flickr Sand Sign, a multi-national artistic project featuring Andres Amador, is launching a social initiative for Valentine's Day 2015. For one month, the campaign will be collecting messages with love declarations to draw them on some of the world's most beautiful beaches so that a World Record can be established. As expected, Costa Rica is one of the countries participating in this r...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 4, 2015)—Thirteen-year-old Grace Chung from Saratoga, California, has captured the grand prize of the 2014 International Photography Contest for Kids for her close-up portrait of a gecko. She has won a five-day, four-night trip to Washington, D.C., and a tour of National Geographic headquarters. The competition was conducted in partnership with the U.S. edition of National Geograp...

Go Film Magazine Later this year, film lovers in Costa Rica will once again be treated to a unique, international festival that highlights the many facets of short cinema. The shnit International Shortfilmfestival is hosted around the world in various cities, and San Jose has been once again selected to host this special cinematic event. Go Film Magazine, a publication dedicated to the digi...

Far Corner Theater in Costa Rica Honolulu, HI (PRWEB) January 31, 2015 - Far Corner Community Music Theatre announces that its Costa Rica Program, Musical Theatre Connections, is currently enrolling both high school participants and college interns for youth international programs this summer. Far Corners Community Musical Theatre, a small non-profit organization, brings musicals and other per...

Costa Rica from the air Two of the hottest Christmas gifts received by tech and photography enthusiasts around the world were drone aircraft and GoPro high-definition cameras. According to a recent story in All Things Considered, a news program broadcast by National Public Radio in the United States, many YouTube videos posted on Christmas Day featured new drone operators crashing their new, e...

At the Regional Museum in San Ramon, province of Alajuela, twenty works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries await visitors, who do not have the benefit of knowing either the title or authorship of the works. Visitors to this museum, which is located in a thriving agricultural region of Costa Rica, must investigate the background of the untitled works of art and make their own determination as ...

In the late 20th century, the lovable city of San Jose was graced by Memories of Flight, a multi-media installation made of welded steel, aluminum mesh, slide projectors, and computer parts. It was a large and ghostly sculpture in four sections ranging in size from six feet to fifteen feet tall, ten feet wide. This sculpture by Marta Thoma Hall was commissioned by the National Museum of Art in Cos...

Sergio and Giancarlo Pucci are brothers who share two passions: flying and photography. Over the last few years, they have flown dozens of hours with the intention of coming up with an aerial photographic record that proves what passengers of domestic airlines such as Nature Air already know: Costa Rica looks very pretty from the ground, but from the air she looks amazing.   Togethe...

Now showing in Costa Rica Right before Costa Rica shut down for Holy Week and Easter Sunday, 158 important works of fine art were being transported in utmost secrecy and under sophisticated security through the streets of San Jose. A few unmarked trucks carried original works by European masters as well as pieces by Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat and more. This plethora of art will be exhib...

Carlos Hiller hanging his artwork at the Liberia International Airport in Guanacaste Costa RicaFast, tenacious and colorful: these adjectives are subjective of course, but nonetheless describe the fundamental nature of these magnificent fish which have become icons of the sport and commercial fishing on Costa Rica's Pacific coast: sailfish, roosterfish and golden fish (Mahi-Mahi). The paintin...

Source: MichaelBaker.com Michael Baker has been creating sculptures for more than two decades. His artwork has been exhibited all over the United States, and in 2012 he made his international debut in Costa Rica. If you are a fan of the Iron Man film series, there is a good chance that you are already familiar with Mr. Baker's work, and now you can see more of it in Guanacaste. According to...

Painting by Willy Flores Starting in late January, the lovable city of San Jose will welcome more dogs than usual. These dogs, however, are not part of the million stray and community dogs that roam Costa Rica; these canines are an important part of the body of work of Willy Flores, and they are currently on display at the Sophia Wanamaker art gallery of the Centro Cultural in San Pedro. Mr...

The annual Que Lindo (How Lovely) art fair, held on Friday, January 24, at the Natural Center in downtown Samara, attracted close to five hundred visitors, eager to see the artwork, as well as to enjoy some guitar music and sample the goods being sold simultaneously at the weekly Samara Organic Market. The fair took place from 2 to 6 p.m., about 30 local artists and artisans showed their colorf...

On Friday, January 24, the Samara Organic Market will offer more than healthy food during the third annual art fair, “Que Lindo” (How Lovely). Local artists and artisans will be exhibiting and selling their creations, including paintings and watercolors, mixed media, masks, clothing, jewelry, and fused glass, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Natural Center Gym and Spa in downtown Samara, next to the sch...

Mexican Artist Juan Carlos SaldañaIt’s partly about patience—the patience of cutting colorful tiles into tiny pieces-, then arranging and bonding them piece by piece to a surface and later filling in the lines with grout while carefully cleaning the grout from the tiles so their brilliance shines in the completed mosaic. Artist Juan Carlos Saldaña compares this last step to giving the tiles a fac...

This past Saturday December 14 was the 2nd Nosara Artisans Holiday Art Fair at The Gilded Iguana. Thirty artists living in Nosara displayed their ceramics, fabric art, furniture, glass art, jewelry, mosaics, paintings, photos, prints, upcycled art, and wood carving. Several community organizations participated as well. There was face painting for Escuelita Verano and holiday gifts from the new...

Although the response was very cold when they started organizing the Guanacaste Art Festival in July, things have heated up, and now it promises to be quite a lavish display of talent from November 21 to 24 in the city of Tilaran. The regional promoter of culture for the province, Vera Vargas, indicated to the Voice of Guanacaste that they finally received more inscriptions than they anticipate...

Costa Rican artist Juan Carlos ValverdeShowing an interest in arts as a child, Costa Rican artist Juan Carlos Valverde spent many of his childhood afternoons canvassing red-dirt roads for materials like clay and Poró wood to create all types of figures and shapes, spending days crafting small cars and other toys. In his early adult life he came to realize that studying visual arts was his drivin...

Source: CocoArtsCenter.com An artist and real estate developer from Seattle has teamed up with a renowned architect to create the future mecca of arts and culture in the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Coco Arts Center is the name of this future art gallery and cultural exhibition facility, which will be located 100 meters east of Iguanas, on the northern sector of the town. This ambitious projec...

Drake Bay. Source: Flickr CC The treacherous underwater currents of Drake Bay claimed the life of a Canadian man who was reportedly part of a film crew working for the international cable network NatGeo in Costa Rica. The photographer has been identified as Peter Brumer. According to daily tabloid newspaper Diario Extra, the late photographer disappeared around 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The unde...