Contemporary Art/Travel/Other


Contemporary Art


The Museum of Contemporary Art (sorry no web site). In the municipal building/city hall, Plaza Regocijo, Cusco. They change exhibits about every month with exhibition space in two rooms in front and in the 1st and 2nd floor patios. The art work is for sale, just ask the official tending the exhibition entrance. Tourists must purchase Cusco's Boleto Turistico in order to visit this gallery.

Don Quixote Art Gallery (sorry, no web site). In a large house on San Augustin Street, Cusco, just a block away from Fractal Dragon on the parallel street. Like Fractal Dragon, this too is a private gallery offering art work for sale. There is a S/. 5 entrance fee, but they sometimes waive this fee (for the asking).

Travel to Cusco Peru


You can Google or Bing for travel information. Here are a few of the local sites we've found the most useful. They cover largely the same topics with differences presentation and varying depths.

CUSCOPERU.COM. Cusco Peru Travel Information including the entire Cusco region. However, they still haven't put a link to our gallery on their site.... so maybe they aren't that useful a site!

Cusco Peru. Cusco Peru Travel Information including the entire Cusco region. Neither has this site put a link to our gallery... but they do list a few other galleries of interest.

Cultural Agendas/Calendars

There are other cultural calenders/agendas, but these two are the best available online.

AgendaCusco.com. Provides a calendar of events for Cusco (art, culture, sport, entertainment, ...) as well as articles on culture and events, a directory (much more complete than that above) of cultural centers, a photo gallery and other great stuff. They've recently upgraded their web site to a more modern look including reference to Facebook.

CuscoCulto.com. Provides a calendar of events for Cusco.

Study Art/Music


Apulaya - Center for Andean Music & Art. Workshops, courses y vacations of Andean music and Pre-Colombian art in the sacred valley of the Incas. Emerita, Valerio and Hanny are friends of ours and Emerita and Valerio are godparents of our daughter.

Art Shops

Del Hoyo Galleries. My friend Mauricio and his family have three shops in which they display Peruvian art based on aboriginal themes by his wife Mariana as well as original ceramic and woven art objects by various Peruvian artists.

If you are looking for an art souvenir, there are plenty of shops along the streets Triunfo, Hathunrumiyok and Cuesta San Blas leading up to the San Blas barrio of Cusco which sell more mass produced art and copies of art. Some of this art is actually pretty good... they are done by artists also making a living through their work. Sometimes we discover that an artist exhibiting in our gallery is selling his/her work at for a much lower price in one of these shops.

Intermingled with these art shops you will also encounter the occasional art shop where the owner of the shop is also the artist and all of the art is original art work!

Life's an adventure.