Arts & Culture Archives - Americas Quarterly

A New Documentary Chronicles the Decay of Small-Town Cuba

The filmmaker returned home to find the town he grew up in disappearing, even as its artists continue to build a legacy.

AQ’s music columnist traces the paths of a genre that thrived in Latin America, from its colonial courts and Jesuit missions to its revolutions.

A new book shows how Brazil’s biggest city often literally paved over its Black past.

A collaboration between The Met Opera and The Museum of Modern Art gives the famed Mexican artists a fresh treatment.

Dahlia de la Cerda’s latest book takes on what it means to be a woman living through Mexico’s security crisis.

Since first hosting the FIFA World Cup in 1970, the country has seen a remarkable transformation. This time, the challenge is security.

A new book explores how 16th-century commoners wielded the legal system against their colonizers to surprising effect.

A new documentary follows the mothers and daughters of Guaribas, Brazil’s pilot city for the famed Bolsa Família cash-transfer program.

From samba to soca and candombe, AQ’s music columnist traces Carnival season’s sounds across the hemisphere.

A new short story collection by Daniela Catrileo follows Mapuche youth through the cramped blocks and slow violence of Santiago.

An exhibition in New York City displays Claudio Perna’s radical 20th-century experiments in mixed media.

Julissa Reynoso’s autobiographical drama, Public Charge, provides stark contrasts with Latin America policy under Trump 2.0.

In Paris and New York, curators present a new kaleidoscope of art from a critical region.

Family history, politics, and ecology remake one another in the new book “Autobiography of Cotton.”

Ciro Durán’s first feature film “La paga” shows the celebrated Colombian director in a new light.