Elisabeth Garber-Paul

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list features Shakira’s ode to her sons, the return of Ivy Queen, and the emergence of GALE. Also on the list: Villano Antillano’s fierce collaboration with Pedro Capó, Miranda! revisits one of their hits with Juan Ingaramo and Emmanuel Horvilleur, and Corina Smith’s post-breakup anthem. Plus, the debut album from Spanish singer-songwriter BORJA and Mariangela’s heartfelt single. Shakira, […]

After working a few years in the fashion industry, Valentina Pozo felt that she hadn’t seen the full potential for a space for Latin art, design, community, and hospitality realized. The result? She founded her own: TUMBAO. TUMBAO, launched two years ago, is a pop-up concept showcasing the work of emerging Latin American designers, creatives and artists.  Weaving short-term retail experiences with a contemporary celebration of Latinidad, TUMBAO uses fashion […]

Visual artist Yvette Mayorga tells Latina stories through the aesthetics of confection, using pastry piping bags filled with acrylic to create her richly textured paintings, sculptures and installations. This process is inspired by the confection and pastry work of her Mexican mother and tías, who labored to support their families in a new and unfamiliar country. Mayorga’s work draws from Mexican-American lifeways and European art history to comment on colonialism […]