Local actor back in the Oscar frame
Nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s “No” stars Tapatio actor Gael Garcia Bernal playing an advertising executive who helps oust Chilean dictator Augustin Pinochet.
Beset by uncertainty about whether its leadership will keep their jobs under the new state government taking the reins March 1, the general manager of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), Arturo Gomez Poulat, said that he and Artistic Director Alondra de la Parra are nevertheless designing the orchestra's new season and hoping to propose artistic and business projects to cultural authorities in February.
Lucia Maya’s artwork is not shocking in its subject matter, nor does it contain the distasteful imagery that characterize the work of so many contemporary artists.