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This paper studied whether the use of short message service (SMS) technology effectively informed Bogota's population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) about its eligibility to receive social benefits. Half of the sample population was randomly informed of their eligibility via SMS and...
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For many years the artistic movement in the Dominican Republic was a -best-kept secret. Their growing international contributions to contemporary visual arts have been changing that picture, but may also be characterized by even greater drive, selectivity, and regularity. We could say that of...
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Second and final segment of the exhibit organized around the book "Art of Latin America 1981-2000," published in 2002 … by the IDB Cultural Center. Written by historian Germán Rubiano Caballero, the book gives an overview of the art in Latin …
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The Guaraní have an aesthetic view of Earth. For the Guaraní, the Earth is a beautiful body on which trees are like long hair, the skin is sometimes shining, sparkling, and manifestations of soil erosion are diseases. This is within the conception that we call mythic, but for them it is a very...
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, Brasil; 15 Videobrasil Internacional Electronic Art Festival, São Paulo, Brasil; Cine a la Calle, Cinemateca del Caribe …; Fundación Museos del Banco Central de San José, Costa Rica; Fundación Octaedro, Quito, Ecuador; MECAD\Media Centre d'Art i … second time, and with a remarkable host the Second Biennial American Video Art organized by the Cultural Center of the Inter …
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to printmaking during the month of March 2005. The exhibit Art of the Print was organized to welcome participants in the …
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The Art Museum of the Americas is a unique and singular asset of the Organization of American States. The museum …, inaugurated in 1976, houses the most comprehensive twentieth-century art collection from Latin America and the Caribbean on public …, through its Cultural Center, has been a long-time supporter of the Art Museum of the Americas, and that relationship is …
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The exhibition comprises 56 objects that unites Baroque oratórios, folk and popular art, applied arts and works by …
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with the Foundation of the Central Bank Museums of Costa Rica. Works include installations and interactive digital art …
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More than fifty objects made by the Amerindian population as well as painting and sculpture representing contemporary artists drawn from several private and public collections, pay tribute to Guyanese artists and culture. This exhibition joined in the 2006 celebrations of Guyana's 40th year of...
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