Answer:
1. ¿Qué diferencia al Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas de hoy y el de 2002? Ahora se puede ver video-arte en la sala multimedia.
2. ¿A qué país tienes que viajar para ver la colección de jade más grande del mundo? Costa Rica
3. En Cuba, ¿cómo le dicen a los dibujos animados? Muñequitos
4. ¿Por qué pinta Fernando Botero personas de proporciones exageradas? Le interesa el volumen como técnica.
5. ¿Dónde puedes ver las obras de Rafael Murillo Selva? En un teatro
6. ¿Qué tienen Joaquín Cortés y Tania León en común? Trabajan con música.
Explanation:
1. What the difference between the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art from today and from 2002? Now, video-art can be seen in the multimedia room.
The Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art suffered a terrible fire in 2004, which burned almost 10 stories of the museum. It was renewed and opened its doors about a year later. Now, it counts with multimedia rooms on the 3rd floor (room 8 and 9) where works of audio-visual and visual art are shown.
2. What country do you need to go to in order to see the biggest Jade collection in the world? Costa Rica
The Museo de Jade y de Cultura Precolombina (Jade and pre-columbian culture museum) in San Juan, Costa Rica is known for having a huge collection of archeological pieces made from Jade, considered to be the largest in the world.
3. How do they call animated cartoons in Cuba? Muñequitos
Cubans call animated cartoons muñequitos (little dolls). It's an idiomatic expression. There are several iconic muñequitos, like Elpidio Valdés, Vampiros en La Habana and Guaso y Carburo
4. Why does Fernando Botero paint people with exaggerated proportions? He's interested in volume as a technique.
Fernando Botero is a colombian painter and sculptor. He is known for his distinctive style , characterized by an enhanced volumetry, depicting people and objects in large, exaggerated volume. As he says himself: "Soy el pintor del volumen, no de las mujeres gordas" (I´m the painter of volume, not of fat women)
5. Where can you see the works of Rafael Murillo Selva? In a theater
Rafael Murillo Selva is a theater director, actor and playwright. The biggest and most well known from Honduras, so obviously you can see his works at the theater.
6. What do Joaquín Cortés and Tania León have in common? They both work with music.
Joaquín Cortés is a Spanish ballet and flamenco dancer. Tania León is a cuban composer and orchestra conductor.