Reports by the mainstream media and uploads on social media tell vastly different stories of the ongoing protests.
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The Directors Mixing Fact and Fiction at the Forefront of New Chilean Cinema
In a charged political moment, hybrid documentaries speak to Chilean identity and struggle better than any other form of filmmaking.
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Amidst National Protests, Chilean Photojournalist Found Dead in Alleged Homicide
Albertina Martínez Burgos, who had been covering the Chilean government’s attacks on its citizens, was found dead in her home in Santiago. Her camera, laptop, and notes were reportedly missing from the crime scene.
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The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest
The recent uprising in Chile is full of references to the beloved Negro Matapacos, who accompanied protesters for many years. As his legend spreads, so too do images of the good boy.
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Chile’s Art World Joins Massive Santiago Protests
The Contemporary Art Fair of Chile has been postponed, galleries are temporarily shuttering, and an artist-led organization is crowdfunding for legal and medical aid for protesters.
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Turning the Andes Into a Metaphor for Chile’s History of Political Oppression
With The Cordillera of Dreams, director Patricio Guzmán closes out a trilogy of documentaries in which he’s used Chile’s landmarks as points of inquiry into the nation’s past.
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Chile Will Erect Antoni Gaudí’s First Building Outside of Spain
Antoni Gaudí may have died nearly nine decades ago, but a never-built chapel the architect designed in 1915 is finally coming to life.
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Pablo Neruda Goes for a Walk, 41 Years After His Death
“It so happens I am sick of being a man,” Pablo Neruda wrote in his 1933 poem “Walking Around.”
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Bringing Attention to Stray Dogs with a Buoyant Urban Intervention
To make the roaming population of thousands of dogs in Santiago, Chile, more visible, two students attached balloons to the scruffy necks of some of these overlooked canines.
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The Story of the Ad Man Who Toppled a Military Dictator
PARK CITY, Utah — Close your eyes and picture America’s most famous ad man, the fictional Don Draper of the cable TV hit Mad Men. Now push aside your favorite scenes of Don’s bedroom antics, bourbon-fueled lunches, and persuasive client pitches and think: over five seasons of storytelling, what has the dashing ladies’ man done that’s truly made an impact on the world outside his agency office suite?
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The Impossibility of Utopia
SANTIAGO, Chile — In Chile, things are happening. On the one hand, there’s a group of artists (born in the late seventies and early eighties) travelling outside the country but, for the first time, regulary returning and mounting exhibitions inside the borders. On the other hand, the younger artists, born in the mid and late eighties, are developing a consistent and brave concept of work, blowing fresh air into this remote art world. Many of them are creating very political art, fed more by the current government of President Sebastián Piñera than by the past repressive military government, whose shadow is still visible.
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For Those Without History, a Memorial Museum in Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile — Walk down a flight of stairs and open the door. The door closes behind you and you find yourself in a dark room. You disappear; you can’t leave the space and don’t have a point of reference. A few minutes later, 500 silhouettes of the heads of 500 different people throw a diffuse white light — you find yourself gathered with people, some dead, some disappeared, and some others still alive. You are one of the victims of Chile’s dictatorial period. Finally the door opens and you go outside, warmed again by the natural light of the sun. You have just visited the installation “Geometria de la Conciencia” (“Geometry of the Conscience”) by Alfredo Jaar. You are in the Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Santiago, Chile.