Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait “Diego y Yo” Expected to Sell for a Record $30 Million
Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait “Diego y Yo” Expected to Sell for a Record $30 Million
The story of how Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera met is well known in Fridalandia lore. It was 1928 and Kahlo was a young artist. She asked the established Rivera, 20 years her senior, for advice on her work—showing him her art and asking if she should pursue [...]
Indonesian-Peruvian Artist Angelica Yudasto On Crafting Ethereal Tapestries
Indonesian-Peruvian Artist Angelica Yudasto On Crafting Ethereal Tapestries
Angelica Yudasto is an Indonesian-Peruvian artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Yudasto composes site-sensitive arrangements of ethereal tapestries and sculpted glass forms that act as a physical representation of her past traumas and inner anxieties. In her work, transient moments become static evocations printed on free-flowing silk. Latina's [...]
Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel de Luna
Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel de Luna
Bent to the Earth By Blas Manuel de Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of Mexicans going to pick tomatoes, would have to stop. Ruben spun the van into an irrigation ditch, spun the five-year-old [...]
At Latin Music’s Biggest Night, Celebration and Solidarity Take the Stage
At Latin Music’s Biggest Night, Celebration and Solidarity Take the Stage
As the rain trickled outside the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida, the biggest names in Latin music arrived in glamorous fashion for the 2021 Latin Billboard Music Awards. Considered the longest-running awards show in Latin music, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, aired on Telemundo, is the only awards show [...]
Échale Ganas: Chicano Model José Hernandez on Family, Machismo, and his Cultura
Échale Ganas: Chicano Model José Hernandez on Family, Machismo, and his Cultura
Cultura is a new video series by film director Edgar Daniel in collaboration with Latina. Each episode is followed by a Q&A with the subject. Edgar Daniel Olazaba is a Mexican-American film director and photographer based in Los Angeles. The son of immigrant parents, Edgar focuses his work on the [...]
Combining Jewelry, Art, and Mysticism With Serpentine
Combining Jewelry, Art, and Mysticism With Serpentine
Sofia Ordaz, the designer of the Mexican jewelry brand Serpentine, focuses her brand on life’s mysticism. Drawing inspiration from the natural and organic elements of life, Ordaz has created a jewelry line that asks more questions than it answers. She told LATINA, “My inspiration has always been magic and the [...]
Did Oscar Winner Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ Sink Under the Weight of its Own Narcissism?
Did Oscar Winner Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ Sink Under the Weight of its Own Narcissism?
After back-to-back Oscar wins for his work on Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015), Alejandro González Iñarritu’s status as a Mexican auteur suddenly exploded on the international film scene despite having defected to Hollywood over a decade prior. In the years since, Iñárritu has kept mostly out of sight, [...]