...Irene Rimer, founder and director of the 15-member dance troupe, Corazon Flamenco, arrived in the Magic City a little more than a year ago to establish a studio -- Dance Essentials -- leaving behind 500 students in Miami. Settling here with her husband and children, Rimer brought an extensive resume and a chance to start a performing ensemble -- something that wasn't possible for her in Miami...
Ju.23-Ago.22 : Panama :The Landscapes of Memory Exhibition
...Quoting Belgica Rodriguez, one of the most respected Venezuelan and Latin American Art Critics, "if one Venezuelan artist is a true titan of painting it is Ismael Mundaray". Mundaray (Monagas, Venezuela, 1952; lives and works in Paris, France) presents works from his last series "Claire de Lune". Objects taken from home, whose many identical forms proliferate throughout Mundaray’s work show up in the vastness of a dreamlike and nostalgic landscape, like metaphorical links between reality and fantasy, an unbreakable bond with the past...
...Hosting the show is Venezuelan-born Xiomara Bussio, a newly minted U.S. citizen and retired hotel administrator with past experience doing TV commercials.
"Not for a long time have I been in front of the camera," she said, "but it's fun, a lot of fun. And the show is like putting the pieces of a puzzle together, like organizing functions and conventions when I worked in hotels, but on a smaller scale. That's the most fun, to put the show together."...
..."I'm a one-man band," says Marianella Febres-Cordero, cutting bars of Technicolor-striped soap on her West Plano kitchen table. "It's just me."
The Venezuelan-born graphic designer and author (she's published five books in her native country) had been making soaps as a hobby since she was a teenager. Last August, she took a few bars to a friend's trunk show at Stanley Korshak, and went home with an order...
escrito por Simon Marks @ International Herald Tribune
viernes, 25 de julio de 2008
net-a-porter
couturelab
When Carmen Busquets first started thinking about selling luxury
goods on the Internet, it was a daring idea. During the 1990s, couture
houses like Chanel were more interested in investing in swanky real
estate to open retail stores, while designers like Jean Paul Gaultier
were presenting their ideas to the masses by hanging outrageous clothes
on pop stars like Madonna.
But Busquets, who has a varied background in business and retailing,
said she saw in 1997 that "life was going to start becoming faster"
with the growth of the Internet as a means of communication...
...But Venezuelan-born (and current resident of Berlin), Stor Dubiné counts the music of the disco decade as one of his principal artistic influences - a concept rendered all the more interesting by the fact that he was born with severe bilateral hearing loss. His devotion to the Seventies shows in the attention he put into his Munny Legends Series 1, which features Donna Summer, Elton John, Grace Jones and Nina Hagen. This is Stor Dubiné’s first foray into platform toys, and I can’t wait to see what’s next...
...The Venezuelan actor and producer Wilmer Valderrama said: "It’s a pleasure to be in one of the few organizations that is truly investing in the future of our community. It’s something very nice to be here and support this foundation." About this year’s Inspira winner, Valderrama said, "I was very excited, giving him this prize. He and I met many years ago; he is a tremendous actor and he deserves it. "...
"I'M 65," announced Oscar D'León, gyrating in a circle. "Do some aerobics with me!" Age and three heart attacks have not wearied El León de la Salsa, who bounced around in front of his 18-piece orchestra like a hyperactive teen. This was the first London show in five years from the great Venezuelan singer and bandleader. There was, then, no time to waste...
Washington DC : Julio 18 : Leo Blanco at the Millenium Center
"Early on in my career, I discovered that the power and magic of music from geographically diverse areas gave me a new understanding of the world. I am exceedingly grateful for this discovery because it has been infinitely inspirational and a bountiful resource for the development of my music as both a performer and a composer."
There are far more artists in Boston than Marshall, but glass artists Alicia and Beatriz Kelemen know more of them now than they ever did up north.
The Kelemens, Venezuelan-born twins who will show their work at the 61st annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, said the artist community in the Asheville area is much closer than they experienced in Boston - one reason why the semi-annual craft fairs are so exciting for them and people who love fine craft, Beatriz Kelemen said...
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