Delfina Krüseman spends a night at El Danzón de los Amados, trying to find out why crazy, corny love in the shape and sound of Latin American rhythms has become such a theatre success.

From the cobblestone streets of Buenos Aires comes the sultry sound of Tango, mixed with an electronic beat and even some bluesy jazz riffs, The Gotan Project, shows listeners why fusion is becoming so popular.

Nic Pollock talks to Gustavo Giorgi about his latest project, UltraBrit, an Argentine music magazine aimed at local anglophiles.

Buenos Aires is an anomalous city that is fast-paced while also being laid-back. In the corners you can hear cumbia that gets your shoulders rolling and in the balcony milongas you hear the melancholy of tango. Amidst the confusion, an Argentine musician who plays a different kind of genre, jazz, is blossoming: Ligia Piro.

The swampy backwaters of the Tigre delta provides an uneasy backdrop for Anita Piterbarg’s atmospheric debut feature from the production team behind Oscar-winning ‘El Secreto de sus Ojos’.

As an artist from the United States, Tranqui Yanqui has swept Buenos Aireswith his techinicolour pancho-pancho. He has spent five years in the city and has found it full of inspiration, a place that he felt he could be a character he wanted to creatively explore.

For most of us, the words ‘pop art’ usually conjure up graffitied images of Ché Guevara and enormous coke cans. Fundación PROA’s new exhibition of Argentine and Brazilian pop art bears all the familiar hallmarks of the movement but relocates the focus to the southern cone, where familiar bold fonts and cartoon images meet a carnal, visceral movement rooted in the wounds of dictatorship and repression.

The gravelly tones of Peter Lopez drift softly over a melodic guitar riff while a swishing drum rhythm pats out the beat. This is the distinctive sound of Los Alamos, a band famous for creating ‘narcocountry’ and now the stars of a new documentary, ‘The Lost Alamo’.

You know how it is, you meet a guy, start sleeping together, and suddenly you’ve got that sexually transmitted disease where you turn into a dog every time you have sex…no? It isn’t a common GUM clinic complaint, but it is the problem facing Abigail Villalobos, the protagonist in new teen comic ‘PERRA’.

With the excuse of his book ‘Varamo’ being published in English, Joey Rubin takes us through the unique writing style of Argentine author César Aira, based on a juxtaposition of social reality with the absurd.