Camarada Picasso: Art for Propaganda’s Sake
Photo: AlbaCiudad retrieved Camarada Picasso opened last week in Caracas, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Armando Reverón (formerly Sofía Ímber), a week-long event that included the exhibition of...
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The Slow Death of Zulian Cuisine
Photo: Mamá contemporánea retrieved Sitting on her porch, in San Francisco del Zulia, and going through the second bout of daily power rationing, María recounts the meals of her routine: “Rice with...
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Caracas’ Public Museums: The Struggle for Survival
Photo: Tony Frangie Mawad On a whim, I decided to visit the museums in Caracas. Among the bamboo shadows and the ruins of the Viasa Tower against the blue sky, I found myself in front of the Adam and...
View ArticleThe Price of Being Viral: The Case of Alex Romero
Photo: El Nacional, retrieved. On January 8th, this year, Águilas de Zulia played Caribes de Anzoátegui in the Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel Stadium, in the city of Puerto la Cruz, the fifth game of the...
View ArticleSalsa for My Frozen Heart
Photo: Fania, retrieved. Being born and raised at the edge of the Venezuelan Caribbean Sea, in Valencia and Caracas, one must understand how exotic the snow that covers some of our diaspora’s cities...
View Article93 Stories to Understand Our Country’s Gastronomy
Each gastronomy has its own bible, those go-to books which people always turn to and are never absent in a home where the art of cooking is appreciated. Some end up with stained pages, others are...
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Negligence Is Destroying a Venezuelan Architectural Treasure
In the early 1940s, while World War II was ravaging Europe, Venezuela was booming. The South American country had high revenues because of a new oil law and was in dire need of a larger and more modern...
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The Venezuelan Jazz Hippie That Never Stopped Reinventing Himself
Sometimes the most sublime of human expressions comes from its darkest side. The story of Gerry Weil begins with a war, the one with Aryan supremacy delirium, which exploded the same year he was born,...
View ArticleWhat’s the Population of Venezuela?
Imagine that you need to know how the population of Venezuela has changed since the days of Bolívar. Perhaps you’re studying the evolution of GDP per capita, which you can’t do without a count of...
View ArticleThe Caracas Chronicles Glossary
A Acción Democrática: one of Venezuela’s oldest parties. Acción Democrática was founded by Rómulo Betancourt (who’s considered to be the “father of Venezuelan democracy”) in 1941, under the banner of...
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Museums and Galleries Fight (on Their Own) to Stay Alive
In June, Carlos Zerpa—renowned Venezuelan artist—thanked the invitation for the “Conceptual Art in Venezuela” exhibit, scheduled for 2021 in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas (MBA). He turned it...
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The Venezuelan Orchestra System’s Influence Spreads Across the U.S.
When we delve into the world of classical music, Venezuela is an example of excellence, innovation and activism. It isn’t a coincidence that the conductors of the LAPhill, the San Diego Symphony...
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The Living Portrait of a Dying Town
In 2009, Anabel Rodríguez Ríos was on location in Zulia, shooting a documentary about the unique natural phenomenon of the Catatumbo lightning. She and her team were staying in Ologá, a water town on...
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Marapolio: Monopoly with a Maracucho Twist
The world grew up hearing about Mediterranean, Oriental, Virginia and States Avenue. How about Raúl Leoni, Sabaneta, El Naranjal or La Limpia? If some of those names ring a bell, then you certainly...
View ArticleThe End of Innocence
I never had doubts that Venezuela would see its own #MeToo movement. It was a matter of time. Ours is a society uninterested in what it perceives as “first world issues” like gender equality,...
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Sex Assistant: a Venezuelan Short Film About Sexuality in Disability
A version of this piece was originally published at our sister site, Cinco8. Andrés González Majul and Daniela Berlet Rendiles have known each other since they were exercising at the same physical...
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Ymago, a Mérida Production Company Shining Bright on Streaming Platforms
It all began as a small workshop in Los Nevados. Erika and José were inspired with their project of dictating a film seminar to children in one of the most remote villages of Mérida, deep in the...
View ArticleKarina Sainz Borgo: ‘I Don’t Believe There’s Such a Thing as a National...
We have talked more about what happened around Karina Sainz Borgo’s first novel in the publishing industry and the media, than about the book itself. La hija de la española—titled It Would Be Night in...
View ArticleA History of Sexual Abuse in Venezuela’s Lauded Youth Orchestra System
April’s “Venezuelan MeToo movement” came to an abrupt stop after the suicide of a poet who had been called out for statutory rape. All the testimonies flooding social media were overshadowed by this...
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Lía Bermúdez, Timeless Sculptress and Champion of the Arts
Carmen Rosalía González Agreda has passed away. It must sound like the unfamiliar name of an ordinary and unremarkable person but the truth is that she was one of the greatest artists in Venezuelan...
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