Julio de Sosa’s ‘Genesis’ painting portraying former Uruguayan presidential couple José Mujica and Lucía Topolansky as Adam and Eve, was taken off the walls from an exhibition at the Diana Saravia Art Gallery in downtown Montevideo on the command of police, reported El País de Uruguay on 20 October 2016.  …

This is the story of an Argentinean classical pianist who in the 1970s was blacklisted, threatened, arrested/kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured for his humanistic belief in making music accessible for everyone. By Kristina Funkeson, Freemuse   On 15 December 1977, the Argentinean musician Miguel Angel Estrella was kidnapped by armed individuals …