Beginning August 19th through September 30th, 2008, Dominican Republic-based foodservice company MercaSID and its brand, Aceite Cristol, will unveil Proyecto “MUJER Dominicana en Nueva York” (The Dominican Women‚s Project in New York), a major photo exhibition highlighting the lives and achievements of Dominican women across the Diaspora.
Art & Literature
Miller Group AOR for Museum of Latin American Art.
The Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) in Long Beach, CA selected The Miller Group as its agency of record (AOR), commencing with a re-branding effort. The effort consists of advertising, PR and interactive to drive traffic and membership to the museum. Advertising focuses on cable TV (throughout the LA ADI), outdoor, print and interactive, and features the museum’s exhibit “Wifredo Lam in North America and Carlos Luna: El Gran Mambo.”
A Dominicano conquers La-La Land.
It’s not every day that you see Caribbean and L.A. in the same sentence but Junot Diaz, a young, MIT professor from the Dominican Republic, is making waves in “Mexican” L.A. Diaz, the New Jersey-raised writer who was awarded this year’s Pulitzer for fiction, for his first novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” must have a lot of fans in L.A. Diaz’s book, which has made it on numerous bestseller lists across the country–including the New York Times’ list, has been on the L.A. Times bestseller list for the past 20 weeks.
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TRANSactions: Contemporary LatAM & Latino Art at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum presents TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, an exhibition that showcases the work of forty Latin American and Latino artists and demonstrates how, despite their differences, they commonly explore questions of identity through their own cultures and life experiences.
Impremedia partnership to publish Oscar de La Hoya biography.
Rayo and impreMedia have agreed to join forces to promote one of the most-talked about memoirs of the year, the much anticipated Oscar De La Hoya penned autobiography, Un Sueño Americano (on-sale June 10th).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrates ‘Spanish Spring’ with El Greco to Velazquez.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), celebrates the richness of Spain’s magnificent artistry with El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III, highlighting works by the great Spanish masters; and Antonio Lopez Garcia, a retrospective of this contemporary realist.
Spicy literature of Spain & Latin America comes to Seton Hall Via Brooklyn.
The Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute presents the award winning novelist, Eduardo Lago on March 12, at 8 pm at Seton Hall University in the Chancellor’s Suite. Lago is the recipient of the Nadal Prize, Spain’s oldest and most prestigious literary award for his first novel Llamame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn), and the 2007 National Critics’ Award.
Oscar De La Hoya pens autobiography.
HarperEntertainment, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced the acquisition of an autobiography by boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya. To be called AMERICAN SON, De La Hoya’s book will chronicle his rise as one of the most-talked about fighters in the history of boxing, a frank and touching memoir about his pursuit and achievement of the American Dream.
Editorial Campana bets on the talent of New York Latino Authors.
Editorial Campana, a Latino publishing company dedicated to promoting the talent of independent writers, announced the official debut of its 7 new titles. The event will take place on October 4, at 7:P.M at the NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
Art Exhibit: Photography by Children of Migrant Farm Workers.
The Art Gallery of Knoxville is proud to present a national exhibition that examines the U.S. / Mexico Border and the lives of migrant farm workers and Appalachian families in rural TN.
Teatro Stage Fest in NYC.
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Latino International Theatre Festival of New York, Inc. announced the launch of TeatroStageFest, a two week theater festival showcasing the sights and sounds of award-winning theatre companies, performers, playwrights and directors from New York City, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The festival, which will run from April 30 through May 13, 2007, is expected to draw more than 5,000 theater-goers at seven venues in the emerging Fourth Arts Block of the East Fourth Street Cultural District and surrounding areas creating New York’s own Calle Cuatro.
Merrill Lynch presents 5th annual arteaméricas.
For the fifth consecutive year, Merrill Lynch will present arteaméricas, the premier exhibition of Latin American artists, showcasing more than 300 renowned and emerging talents from 70 of the most prestigious art galleries of Latin America, the United States and Europe.
Puerto Rican Poetry anthology covers new ground.
In January, the University of Massachusetts Press published “Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times,” edited and translated by Roberto Marquez, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
Museo de Arte de Ponce exhibits at Worcester Art Museum.
Beginning October 8th, Worcester Art Museum provides to its visitors with a wide-ranging overview of the three most important artists of Puerto Rico José Campeche y Jordán (1715-1809), Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917) and Miguel Pou y Becerra (1880-1968). The exhibition titled Mi Puerto Rico: Master Painters of the Island, 1780-1952 was curated by Marimar Benitez, Director, School of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cheryl Hartup, Chief Curator of Museo de Arte de Ponce and comprises 47 works of art from public and private collections, of which 16 are form MAP.
