Poor Bogota suburb wows tourists with street art. Bogotá ... "I'm worried to take pictures of the graffiti... to take out my cellphone," 30-year-old Tomas Velasquez from Chapinero, ...

BOGOTA -- On Sundays in Ciudad Bolivar, one of Bogota's poorest neighborhoods, residents are treated to the incongruous sight of tourists riding the cable car that on weekdays ...

A hip, student-driven area known as Bogota’s gay neighborhood, Chapinero is in constant motion — by the end of 2019, anti-government protesters were holding regular concerts and other events ...

The idea was to occupy abandoned spaces with street art and murals, using the space as a gallery before they are torn down. Since its beginning, the project has involved more than 200 artists, ...

Bogotá’s Mayor, Carlos Fernando Galán Pachón, and the Secretary of Culture, Recreation, and Sports, Santiago Trujillo Escobar, launched last night at the Centro Felicidad Chapinero, Bogotá's ...

Bogota’s street art has enough hipster cachet at this point that Justin Bieber, when he performed in the city in 2013, went out to tag a wall. But he had a police escort ...

In 2011, the death of 16-year-old Diego Becerra started a dramatic shift in Bogotá’s relationship with street art. Becerra was illegally out spraying with friends, and was caught. Scared, he ...

“We wanted to remove some of the stigma attached to Ciudad Bolivar, using art,” Luisa Sabogal, a 24-year-old inhabitant of the neighborhood and co-creator of the Bogota Colors project, told AFP.

On Sundays in Ciudad Bolivar, one of Bogota's poorest neighborhoods, residents are treated to the incongruous sight of tourists riding the cable car that on weekdays transports thousands of ...