This month, we are overjoyed to present our new exhibit, “58 Years of Costa Rica, Through Our Eyes and Yours.” We are happier still collaborate with the Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center in Los Yoses, one of the most distinguished institutions in the country. The exhibition opens to the public Thursday, Dec. 4, and continues through the end of January.
Curated by the National Theater, the new exhibit “El Teatro Nacional Visto Por Los Artistas” opened Wednesday morning. The exhibit incorporates 26 works by a variety of artists.
The artists seem free and feisty: You will find the usual feel-good landscapes, but you will also find fiercely political work, covering every theme imaginable.
The National Museum recently opened a curious new exhibition, “Conquistas Sociales en Costa Rica.” While “conquista” in this context can be translated most accurately as “achievement,” visitors will appreciate the victorious tone the exhibit gives to Costa Rica’s conquests of injustice and inequality.
“Chunche” is one of the cutest words in the Costa Rican lexicon: It basically means “thingamajig” or “whatchamacallit.” Multimedia artist Benvenuto Chavajay uses the term playfully, but his installations do not share that casual cuteness.
The exhibit displays many of Pacheco’s landscapes, which represent the nation as it once was: a place of farms and forest, mountains and dirt roads, haphazardly dotted with stucco houses and stone walls.