Art

3. ROOTS

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: Peter Rios − BX CollaboratorCover Issue #96PATRIMONYIn 1972, UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Bolivia signed the convention, b...

Jiwasa

11 Dec, 2019 | Anneli Aliaga

Photos: Courtesy of Fundación Grupo Ukamau The continuing legacy of Jorge Sanjinés and the Grupo Ukamau’s combative cinema It is impossible to think and speak about Bolivian cinema without m...

4. SPACES

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: Valeria Dorado − BX CollaboratorFlamingo.Coqueza, Potosí, Bolivia.Explorer during the weekends and full time manager during the week. Valeria Dorado is passionate about travel and photogra...

Bolivia in pictures

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve. Potosí, Bolivia.VALERIA DORADOExplorer during the weekends and full time manager during the week. Valeria Dorado is passionate about travel and photo...

5. UNDERWORLDS

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo:  Mattia Polisena / 7200.LineaRecta − BX CollaboratorCover Issue #51SPIRITUALITYJune 21 marks the Aymara New Year here in Bolivia. Coinciding with the Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisp...

7. INITIATIVES

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: Nick Somers − Past Intern Cover Issue #73PERFORMANCESIn 2014, the city of La Paz was named one of the Seven New Urban Wonders of the World by the New7Wonders Foundation. This global distin...

7. VISIONS

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: Gonzalo Laserna −BX CollaboratorCover Issue #85CONTRADICTIONSBolivia is a paradox. It’s one of the richestlands in South America (with vast depositsof lithium, silver, tin, natural gas and more...

Antes de que nos olviden

11 Dec, 2019 | Anneli Aliaga and Marie-Eve Monette

Photos: Marie-Eve Monette and Archivo Página Siete Fighting against a broken system On the 25th of November every year since 1981, Bolivia participates in the International Day for the Elimi...

Mitologías Imaginarias

11 Dec, 2019 | Renata Lazcano Silva

José imagines an animal that is a mixture of fox and eagle (11 years, Challapampa) Photos:  Courtesy of Mateo Caballero and Natalia PeñaA ‘micro revolution’ of art, education and play&n...

8. CONNECTIONS

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: Juan Pablo Crespo Rocha − BX CollaboratorAmong the heights of the mountain range and charming landscapes surrounded by lagoons and rocky areas, a thriving activity that puts the focus in C...

9. PROFILES

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: William Wroblewski. Model: Profe Donato Monroy. Cover Issue #74 KNOWLEDGE (S)This is the story of a girl—let’s call her Lizeth and let’s imagine she’s 10. Lizeth grows up in a sm...

Gunnar Quisper, Tatuista

11 Dec, 2019 | Rhiannon Matthias

Photos: Rhiannon MatthiasThe tattoo artist brings the age-old art form to modern La Paz Gunnar Quisper, a potosino keen on changing ideas around tattoos, says that ‘tattooing is above all an anci...

Arte de fuego

11 Dec, 2019 | Anneli Aliaga

Mario Sarabia’s Ceramics‘El espíritu de los Andes…Bolivia’ (‘The Spirit of the Andes…Bolivia’), an abstract stone sculpture of an Andean figure, located in the Valle de la Luna, was recently vandalise...

10. PAST INTERNS

11 Dec, 2019 | BX Team

Photo: William Wroblewski. Production: Valeria Wilde . Model: Anna Grace. Cover Issue #62JOURNEYSFor most travellers who visit, Bolivia is not a place to sit still. The country offers a variety o...

Recommendations BX-95

24 Jun, 2019 | BX TEAM

CASA MUSEO SOLÓN Description: Walter Solón Romero (1923-1999) donated his house/workshop to the Solón Foundation in 1994. He is one of the most outstanding exponents of Bolivian plastic art of th...