Argentina News
Music for the Weekend: The Gotan Project
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.
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The Indy Eye: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the spiritual leader and founder of the NGO “Art of Living Foundation”, led a massive mediation in the Palermo Woods on Sunday afternoon with estimates of well over 100,000 people in attendance.
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Music for the Weekend: Ligia Piro
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.
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Project of the Week: The Tranqui Torres
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.
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London Paralympics 2012: Team Argentina’s Halftime Report
With four and a half days left of Paralympic action the Indy’s Grace Protopapas takes a look back at how successful team Argentina has been and what to look forward to in the upcoming days.
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On Now: Pop, Realismos y Política
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.
