Bogotá’s Bohemian Renaissance — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

I’m an impatient museumgoer, not big on jostling with others in hushed halls to see paintings that look, to me, just as good in a book as on canvas. But for one artist I make an exception: Fernando Botero, “the most Colombian of Colombian artists,” as he styles himself. It may be asserted that Botero has single-handedly put Colombia on the world map of art. It is a fact that he put the home of the Museo Botero (Botero Museum), in Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, on my personal radar.

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