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Christmas is truly creeping up on us and it might be hard to wrap our heads around the fact that we have to start decorating and buying gifts for all the special people in our lives. But alas, it ...
On December 7, 1975, one of the main corridors of Plaza Las Américas anchored by González Padín was decorated with Christmas motifs and decorations, reflecting the joy of the season. To the left, in the background, you could see the tall and colorful Christmas tree that was placed in the aforementioned corridor.
Puerto Rican art is the diverse historic collection of visual and hand-crafted arts originating from the island. The art of the Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños or boricuas) draws from the various cultural traditions of the indigenous Taino people, as well as the history of the island as the subject of various other nations.
The artists believed that there needed to be a new, distinctly Puerto Rican art. With these ideas in mind, they formed the Center of Puerto Rican Art. [2] The CAP served as a gallery, classroom, workshop, publishing press, and collaborative meeting space for many important Puerto Rican artists during the 1950s.
Puerto Rico is primarily Catholic, so of course, Christmas is a focus of the holiday season, but the island also observes Three Kings Day, or Epiphany, on Jan. 6, and the weeklong San Sebastian ...
Eventually reggaeton, a Puerto Rican break-off of original Spanish reggae, became very popular throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, the US and Spain. Puerto Rican artists helped create Salsa music with Cuban artists, and also helped Dominican artists with the development of Merengue.
A special episode of the PBS animated series "Alma's Way" will celebrate a New York City Puerto Rican girl's Christmas and Three Kings traditions.
This category contains articles related to the native trees of Puerto Rico, in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. This category follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.