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Iván Navarro and his Proposal for a Monument for Víctor Jara
By: Señales Rojas 2010 – Art against the proliferation of barbarism, an IILA – Italo-Latin American Institute- project in collaboration with Fondazione Volume!
La Muerte de Todos los Días, by Guillermo Arias, in Casa Escorza, Guadalajara
With the thundering eloquence of arms, the footprints of violence come up, more and more frequently, throughout the country.
Genetic Sequence Results from Xavier Cortada at The Frost Art Museum
Can a DNA sequence generated randomly have any parallel to an existing life-form?
The Círculo de Bellas Artes Of Madrid Welcomes the Work of the Photographer Horacio Coppola
El Círculo de Bellas Artes (The Circle of Fine Arts) of Madrid welcomes to the Sala Picasso the work of Horacio Coppola, pioneer of photography of the Argentinean vanguard and an artist who has made one of the best portraits of Buenos Aires.
Pinta New York Inaugurates its Fourth Edition
After three successful editions in New York and a first in London last June, PINTA, the unique Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, consolidates its position as a leading art fair in two world capitals, establishing new strategies in the Latin American art market.
Announcing BAVIC, Seventh Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American Isthmus
BAVIC is a platform for artists of Central America who are projecting their works at the international level.
O. Ascanio Gallery Opens its Doors in Miami
O. Ascanio Gallery opened its doors in the Wymwood art district in Miami this past September 11th, 2010.
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art
Houston—October 2010— Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Latin American art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the vital collection of art it has amassed in a short timeframe.
Puntos de Fuga . Arquitecturas Possibles
In Alliance with the Fundación Fondo Internacional de las Artes - FIART- (International Art Fund Foundation) , 18 Ibero-American artists are coming together at the Biblioteca EPM/Sala de Ciudad, of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, MAMM.
Reopening of the Art Museum of Ponce After Renovation
The new Art Museum of Ponce will open its doors again on November 14th after a multimillion dollar renovation and expansion project.
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera (Havana, 1915) studied architecture at the University of Havana’s School of Architecture, where she discovered what she herself calls “the extraordinary world of straight lines”, which has remained a major interest to date.
Radical Optimism
The spirit of “Optimismo Radical” (Radical Optimism) was already present in some of the streets around the New York gallery Josée Bienvenu.
Modern Negative
“Negativa Moderna” faces the viewer with a careful selection of works by fourteen Venezuelan artists, in a posthumous reflection on the legacy of the modernist project in Latin America (which Venezuela headed in the 1950s due to the wealth it derived from oil production).
Retratos Pintados
There was a time when photography was not deemed susceptible of conveying the liveliness and the intensity that every good portrait required.
Atopía: Art and City in the Twentieth Century
Rooted in different intellectual fields contemporary philosophy, computer science, or cultural studies the exhibition “Atopia: Art and City in the Twentieth Century” is a response to a series of anguishing symptoms of the city in the culture of world globalization.
Martín Ramírez
Martín Ramírez (Rincón de Velásquez, México, 1895) is one of those great mysteries that contemporary art presents from time to time. An emigrant to prosperous California in 1925, the 1929 collapse left him jobless and immersed in a deep depression that robed him of the power of speech.
Jorge Pardo Received the 2010 MacArthur Award
The Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo (Havana, 1963), who had a solo show at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills last summer, was chosen among the recipients of the prestigious fellowship MacArthur award.
Tony Capellan at the Trienal of Santo Domingo
While I roamed the halls of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Santo Domingo, I remembered an installation exposition of Tony Capellan in this museum in the late 90s.
Paraguayan Portraits in Two Eras
The exhibition Retratos Paraguayos en Dos Tiempos, at the CAV/Museo del Barro, presents chronologically different works that converge in a revealing manner even though their creators were never in contact.
Allora & Calzadilla at Parisien Gallery Chantal Crousel
Allora & Calzadilla, the collective created for Jeniffer Allora (born 1974, USA) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born 1971, Cuba), is having its third individual show at Gallery Chantal Crousel in Paris.
IAC
In the Brazilian scene, where there is still an evident absence of cultural centers with a minimally coherent program the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Institute) (IAC), inaugurated in Sao Paulo in 2006, constitutes a healthy exception.
Artistic Revelations in the Ceramic TileTriennial
Elit/Tile 2010, the Fourth International Ceramic Tile Triennial, held in collaboration with the Igneri Foundation/Art and Archaeology at the Centro León in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
"General Protest" By Tania Bruguera in Dominõ Canibal. PAC Murcia 2010
DOMINÓ CANÍBAL is an initiative by the Culture and Tourism Council of the region of Murcia encompassed by the PAC (Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo de Murcia 2010)
Annual Auction of Latin American Art by Phillips de Pury & Company in New York
Phillips de Pury & Company’s annual auction of Latin American art will feature contemporary art, photographs, design, and editions including highlights by Fernando Botero, Sergio Camargo, Wifredo Lam
Anna María Guasch and her Vision of the Crossroad of Latin American Art at the MUAC
Anna Maria Guasch, accredited Art History professor at the Universidad de Barcelona and art critic, made a lecture about her essay: “From the new internationalism to local speeches: the crossroad of Latin American art on the way to post-modernity in a global age”, at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC, Mexico City.
Carlos Garaicoa at Matadero, Madrid
Seven carpets rest on the floor of the oldest cooling camera in Matadero Madrid.
The MUAC Launched Catalog of the Ergo, materia. Arte povera Exposition
The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) launched the catalog for the Ergo, materia. Arte povera exposition, during an event with the participation of the curators Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Guillermo Santamarina, and the artist Luis Felipe Ortega.
A Discussion About the Growth of Miami’s Art Community
The growth of Miami's art community raises questions about its development and direction
Mercosul Biennial announces curatorial team for the 8th edition
The chief curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial José Roca, has announced the team of curators to work on the curatorial plans for this edition, which is due to take place from September to November 2011, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Carla Zaccagnini: An Installation Around the Sense of Community and Collective Work at MUSAC
On September 18th there will be presented, as an integrating part of the exposition To be constructed by Laboratory 987, Reação em cadeia com efeito variável installation by the Argentine artist resident of São Paulo Carla Zaccagnini.
César Trasobares: A Lecture About His Installation of Rings in Human Rites at Bass Museum
In 1983, Cesar Trasobares began the construction of RINGHEAD (Exorcism from Style)
