Ballet Hispanico presents an eclectic program drawn from its 40 proud years By Debby Storms Photo Karthik Sudhir New York City’s Ballet Hispanico brought a Chicago audience to its feet Friday night at the Harris Theater. It wasn’t just to express appreciation for the rousing and...

Goya Foods 75th Anniversary by Elias Cepeda Photo: Courtesy of Goya Foods, Inc. Bob Unanue fondly remembers being brought as a child to his father Anthony’s workplace. “I adored my dad so I loved being there in the warehouse,” he says. “I started working there when I...

Even on the Day of the Dead, great music never dies By Elias Cepeda Photos © Karthik Sudhir For Arte Y Vida Chicago.com “Number one, you’ve got to be ready,” Hector Guzman says. Guzman is a symphony orchestra conductor, a Maestro. Before that he was a celebrated pianist and...

Under new artistic director, Luna Negra presents love, loss and longing in its fall program By Debby Storms Last Saturday, in its first season under new Artistic Director Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Luna Negra Dance Theater treated a very enthusiastic audience to a sparkling performance of...

An Interview with Lila Downs by Catalina Maria Johnson, Ph.D. Lila Downs, the extraordinary Mixteco-Mexican-American songstress who single-handedly revived the Mexican ranchera genre and took it to an audience world-wide, will be in Chicago October 15 to sing a tribute to the Grande Dame of...

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Arte y Vida Chicago Calendar on Extra Newspaper Archive. September 23 – September 29 September 16 – September 22 September 9 – September 15 September 2 – September 8 August 26 – September 1 August 19 – August 25  August 12 – August 18 August 5...

New Museum Exhibits Connect Chicago’s Immigrant History to its Present By Elias Cepeda If you are like most people, you haven’t been to a museum exhibit since those mandatory grade- school field trips of yesteryear. And while we can’t condone it, such cultural negligence can almost be...

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Opens 2010-2011 Season with Celestial Dance Works By Debby Storms In four exquisite works for its recently completed fall series (Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 at the Harris Theater at Millennium Park), Hubbard Street Dance Chicago once again proves its place as one of the...

Música at the World Music Festival by Catalina Maria Johnson, Ph.D. From September 24 to 30th, venues city-wide will resound to international melodies and rhythms brought to Chicago courtesy of the World Music Festival. Be sure to check out as much it as you can! Here´s the skinny on...

Flamenco with Omayra Amaya: The perfect way to store up sustenance for the coming winter By Debby Storms As the summer winds down and hints of impending cold and darkness cast their pall over Chicagoland, what better way to steel the spirit than to receive a special infusion of flamenco, the...

[slickr-flickr tag="mexico" items="3" delay="5" autoplay="off"] WELCOME  TO CHICAGO BALLPLAYERS, GODS AND RAINMAKERS por Delia Negro ¨ La cultura indígena de América fue una cultura interrumpida y la América deseada fue la América destruida ¨ . Carlos Fuentes (Iberoamérica) El 16 de...

Puerto Rican Artists Communities Reprinted/Republished with Permission from Chicago Art Magazine This article is not a roundup of Puerto Rican artists. It’s not about Puerto Rican identity art. This article is about prominent, talented artists that exhibit art in self-identified Puerto...

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The 3rd Annual Chicago ARTEahora 2010 Art Fair will be presented in the city of Miami in conjunction with Arteaméricas, Miami’s renowned International Art Fair. Chicago ARTEahora is an international exhibition that showcases the important role Latin American art plays in the international...

Wednesday, August 5 Mozart Park (312) 742-7535 2036 N. Avers FREE! Cartas para Jenny / Letters to Jenny Argentina / Spain, 2007, 100 min. Jenny, a free spirited teenager suddenly faces an unwanted pregnancy. Her boyfriend Kevin promises to marry her but instead decides to pursue his singing...

Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore, American pop-culture. His work has more affinities with Dada...

Carlos Barberena de la Rocha was born in the city of Granada, Nicaragua in 1972, (the same year as the Managua earthquake). He was born into a family of artists, as the son of Myriam de la Rocha Silva (b.1938) and Roberto Barberena Ruiz (1938-1972), who unfortunately died in an accident when...

Sergio Garcia was born on 1959 in Havana, Cuba. He immigrated to the United States with family in 1961, settling in Union City, New Jersey, until 1969. On that same year, he moved to Miami, Florida, where since then he has lived and worked. Essentially self-taught artist, he embraced painting...

Ruben Gerardo Ubiera Gonzalez (born October 19, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican neo-figurative artist, known for his strong use of the line, who has been drawing and painting ever since he had use of reason. Ruben paints and draws in a style considered by many as...

Laura C Galicia Born: Distrito Federal, Mexico City cuetzpalinjade@gmail.com Lived for about 19 yrs. in my beloved Aztec City, moved to Indiana in 1999 and been living here ever since. As a Latino I’ve been influenced by many cultural factors (Mexican and American) that changed my...

The art that I create is an amalgam of influences from Michaelangelo to Yepes, covering an array of genres and styles, ultimately fusing them to create something contemporary and iconic, yet timeless and infinitely familiar. My early years were shaped by popular culture and the empowerment of...

Gabriela is a native of Mexico City. Coming from a long line of artists, she studied art at Wright State University in the United States. Her life is full of experiences that have allowed her to develop her talent as an artist. Being born in Mexico nurtured a fondness for what most people...

Gabriela Peña Mexico City happygaby101@gmail.com My work is a leap of faith hoping for the best, and sometimes, for the worst. These photographs represent the way I see myself and more importantly how I would wish to see myself, taking the camera as an extra pair of eyes unknown to my own. My...

Catalina del Cid San Salvador, El Salvador. catalinadelcidb@yahoo.com TO REACH CHILDREN Children are my audience of choice. They deserve to be informed, accompanied, nourished and provided with hope in the challenging moments of life. My artworks deal in a poetic way with strong and...

Chicago premiere! SEPTEMBERS/SEPTIEMBRES 2007, Carles Bosch, Spain, 98 min. “The redemptive power of love and song flows powerfully through SEPTEMBERS. The documentary takes eight inmates, mostly inside for minor offenses, with one thing in common: they are all participants in an annual...

PREMIERES CINEMA OF THE AMERICAS, OCTOBER 16-29 Films from Mexico and Central and South America featured The Chicago International Film Festival will premiere 175 films from around the world during its 44th edition, October 16-29, 2008, including innovative works emerging from Mexico and...

2008 Common Ground: Dia de los Muertos I wanted to organize an international collaboration on the theme of death for a while. Since this is such a universal topic, not only would everyone have something to say about it but, the way in which each artist would tell it, and the meaning and...

Arte y Vida Chicago Art Gallery is currently accepting proposals from Hispanic visual artists, community and cultural organizations who promote, advance and celebrate Hispanic culture. Please Note: All images appearing in this Art Gallery are protected by copyright law. Use of any image...