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By Adriana Herrera
Estrellita Brodsky´s name is already indissolubly linked to a broadening of the modern and contemporary art discourse towards a more comprehensive vision of Latin American art.
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The name of Bonnie Clearwater, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, is associated to the vertiginous transformation of the Miami art scene.
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A Curator’s Profile
In January 2009, the Venezuelan Julieta González accepted the challenge of being assistant curator of Latin American art at Tate Modern, one of the four international museums (the others are MoMA, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin) that host Latin American art in their collections.
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The challenge to acquire visibility in order to communicate that which the artist wishes to convey
Carlos Basualdo is writing again, not from the intimacy of a poet, but as the speaker capable of conquering spaces in which the word of the artist resonates without interferences.
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By Victoria Verlichak
“I think art chooses you and art leaves you,” Luz Castillo confided to Arte al Día. Since 1995, Castillo has been the director of Arte x Arte, the Buenos Aires gallery specializing in photography, video and digital art.
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On the façade of the three-story building in Miami’s Design District that will house Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s remarkable collection, there will be no distinctive name; only a billboard featuring Félix González Torres’s solitary bird soaring into the sky.
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A new way of experiencing Art
A few months ago, up a hill in the middle of Minas Gerais, Brazil, a huge crane was used to lift enormous construction steel I-beams to a height of 60 meters, and then drop them in a pool of about 10 by 10 meters, filled with wet concrete, thus creating a stunning iron jungle...
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The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-UNAM) opened its doors, as of 27 November 2008, to the first cutting-edge museum in the country: the University Museum of Contemporary Art, MuAC, a space poised to become one of the most visible centers of knowledge and generation of artistic expressions and visual culture in Mexico and the whole of Latin America, in addition to its projecting itself as a protagonist of the categorical change in the mission of museums at the global level.
News
Tony Bechara, Chairman of the Board of El Museo del Barrio, announced today that the museum’s Director and CEO, Julián Zugazagoitia, will be leaving the institution this summer
For the first time in history, two Latin American artists are simultaneously chosen for the public art programs that have been developing since 2005, Art Times Square.
The Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI is soon to reopen in April 7th, after the conclusion of an ambitious renovation project.
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