A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and laundry hangs drying on wire fences. She’s an unlikely classical musician, the daughter of a construction worker father who dropped out of high school and a mother who has cleaned [...]

Concha Buika, from Majorca, Spain, has begun a tour of the US that will carry her from Miami to New York and Washington, where she will showcase the personal style of flamenco that Spanish critics have called a reinvention of the form. Ms. Buika, an artist of African descent, has previously explained that she took [...]

The house of the dead awaits your arrival. Just off the courtyard of a former Carmelite convent here, half a dozen clay sculptures of the dark Aztec underworld lord Mictlantecuhtli fix you with voracious grins and hollow eyes. In a next-door gallery, scores of miniature skeletons strum instruments, cavort in beery fiestas and enlace their [...]