The Daily Journal – Gustavo Dudamel bid farewell to the Los Angeles Philharmonic after 17 years as its music director with a benefit concert for the victims of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24. Under the title “Concert for Venezuela,” the event took place at the Hollywood Bowl, where Dudamel shared […]
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Valeria Olivares In current debates over economic reforms and the transformation commissions Venezuela requires, the cultural sector often takes a back seat. This omission occurs in a country where more than 400 theater institutions — including performance venues and independent companies — have disappeared since the ruling movement came to power, a decline compounded by […]
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The Daily Journal.- The U.S. Department of State, in collaboration with Congress, plans to provide $57 million in grants to support the recovery of Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs (El Sistema) and complete an 18,000-square-meter Teacher Training Center in Venezuela, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas said Thursday. The funding will […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute There are phenomena in popular culture that need no permission to become etched in our memory. When we were kids, we eagerly awaited Carnival not just to play with water, but to dress up as Spider-Man. Those were the days when comic books came to us straight from Mexico thanks to the […]
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The Daily Journal — London is hosting an outdoor installation by Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto for the first time. Pénétrable BBL Jaune, a ten-meter-long work featuring 4,000 vinyl strands suspended from a steel structure, forms part of the Serpentine Galleries’ summer Art in the Park program, sponsored primarily by Britannia Financial Group. Visitors […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute There was no need to reinvent anything. The veteran Academy Awards writers had already invented it all: the jokes, the way the awards are presented, the gags between actors and presenters. It is a ceremony that still draws hundreds of millions of viewers, from what remains of traditional cable television to the […]
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By Neirlay Andrade Argentine journalist Pablo Solana recently visited Caracas to present his book With the Truth in His Throat: The CIA’s Shadow Behind the Murder of Poet Roque Dalton. In this investigation, the writer’s life unfolds at the intersection of three forces: the internal struggles of the Salvadoran left, U.S. counterintelligence operations, and the […]
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EFE — Caracas paid tribute to Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) on Saturday with the poetry-and-music performance Lorca as You Wish, an event attended by Spain’s ambassador to Venezuela, Álvaro Albacete. “Lorca as You Wish means that people can enjoy Lorca from many different perspectives. He was a poet, a playwright, and […]
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Óscar Reyes Matute In philosophy, Johann Gottlieb Fichte described the dialectical movement of consciousness: the “I” (thesis) collides with the external world, or “Not-I” (antithesis), and through overcoming that resistance, achieves self-awareness (synthesis). Fichte, a pillar of German Idealism, never drew a graph. Yet, modern storytelling took his principle of tension and constant collision and […]
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The Daily Journal — The Corpus Christi Dancing Devils stand among Venezuela’s most emblematic cultural and religious traditions. This celebration blends elements of Christianity with Indigenous and African influences. In December 2012, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized the tradition as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Dance of the […]
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