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.

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’.

Each week, The Indy features and promotes one project from crowd-funding website Idea Me, with the aim of helping independent artists finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Images of Argentina by Madeleine Pacheco

From dreamers and bibliophiles to grunge rockers and artists, Buenos Aires is a thriving city of culture that offers something for everyone.

The latest exhibition by photographer Marcelo Gurruchaga is a love letter to the power of nature and the glory of the Argentine landscape. Kate Beioley heads to T-Bone restaurant to read between the lines.

A generation of young Argentine artists are making ripple effects on the local and international arts world. Jess Cotton rounds up some of the most sought-after names in today’s scene.

In this week’s independent project looking for funding on IdeaMe, we highlight Lucus Mussu’s plans to redraw the line between artwork and office work.

Now in its ninth year, Hannah Flint explores an artistic exhibition of architecture now on display at Buenos Aires’ Centro Cultural Recoleta

IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. Each week, the Indy features and promotes one project every week, with the aim of helping the creators finance and achieve their dreams. This week: Luces de un Sombrío Lugar.