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“STOP PAINTING” - PETER FISCHLI EXHIBITS A PANORAMA ABOUT RUPTURE AT FONDAZIONE PRADA VENICE
Described by Peter Fischli as “a kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures”, the project explores a series of specific ruptures within the history of painting in the last 150 years, intertwined with the emergence of new social factors and cultural values. The exhibition also intends to understand if the current digital revolution can also cause a new crisis of painting or, on the contrary, contribute to its renewal. Stop Painting is conceived by artist Peter Fischli with more than 110 artworks by international artists on view at the historic palazzo of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, from 22 May to 21 November 2021.

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON COMMISSIONS ONE OF ERNESTO NETO’S LARGEST CROCHET WORKS TO DATE
The Museum commissions site-specific, immersive installation by the Brazilian artist that will transform the Museum’sCullinan Hall into a suspended walkway. Ernesto Neto: SunForceOceanLife, the seventh installment of the Museum’s summer immersive art series, will be on view from May 30 through September 26, 2021.

FUNDACIÓ MIES VAN DER ROHE AND CREATIVE EUROPE PRESENT THE YOUNG TALENTS ARCHITECTURE AWARD WINNERS OF 2020
The Award has selected 4 recipients which will be shown in an exhibition as a Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, opening on May 22nd.

ARTE AL DÍA TRUE TO ITS COMMITMENT TO CONTEMPORANEITY
More interactive, modern and interdisciplinary, the magazine broadens its scope and adapts to the new demands of the artistic ecosystem. Integrating greater visibility to artists, galleries, writers, and cultural and academic institutions, the platform now includes eight sections, three of which are new.

MEXTRÓPOLI 2021 – MAY ACTIVITIES
Like every year, MEXTRÓPOLI is an idea detonator that seeks to include voices that come from various disciplines and practices. Architects, urban planners, designers, but also writers, artists, and public officials are invited to a reflection that becomes much more necessary in current conditions. Cities are still inhabited and designed: the construction of culture through architecture cannot stop.

IOSU ARAMBURU AWARDED MoMA’S ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2021
The Peruvian artist, represented by the 80M2 Livia Benavides gallery, won one of the three gramts presented each year by the Cisnero’s Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, established by the Museum of Modern Art in 2016 to support new research by artists, curators and scholars.

THE ARMORY SHOW ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITORS AND A NEW VENUE FOR ITS 2021 EDITION
The fair, which includes 194 exhibitors from 38 countries, will take place from September 9-12, 2021 at the Javits Center, The Armory Show’s new, permanent venue. Nicole Berry, Executive Director of The Armory Show, said: “We believe NYC will emerge from this pandemic stronger than ever, and we’re excited to anchor the fall arts season at this pivotal moment when the city’s cultural organizations are reopening and experiencing art in-person is becoming possible again for everyone.”

NUDO NIDO – MADRILENIAN EXHIBITION AND LATIN AMERICAN MEETING POINT
The Sala de Arte Joven presents the exhibition “Nudo Nido” (Knot Nest), one of the winning projects of the XII edition of the Curator Wanted open call, which seeks new curatorial formats, facilitating access to the professional world of young curators.

THE HILARIO ONLINE AUCTION PROMISES DIVERSITY, SOLIDARITY AND GOOD SALES
May is always an important month in the art market in Buenos Aires, even in these special times. As part of the opening of exhibitions in art galleries and special appointments in the auction rooms, Hilario has organized an auction reaffirming its style: a diverse set, highly selected and meticulously studied, with each work accompanied by its corresponding analysis. Bid closing: Wednesday, May 12, from 6.30 p.m. (Argentina)

LATITUDE PRESENTS PARTICIPATING GALLERIES FROM BRAZIL IN FRIEZE NEW YORK
The highlighted galleries are: Galeria Nara Roesler (São Paulo / New York) and Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo / New York / Brussels) for their participation in Frieze NY at The Shed, and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo) and Galeria Marilia Razuk (São Paulo) at Frieze Viewing Room, which will run until May 14, 2021.

FRIEZE NEW YORK RENEWS HOPES AND STRENGTHENS OPTIMISM IN THE ARTISTIC CIRCUIT
Frieze, the first in-person fair in New York since the pandemic, will take place until May 9 at The Shed (Manhattan). It brings together more than 100 world-leading galleries from the US and abroad, in addition to Online Viewing Rooms and other digital programs and projects.

MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS RECIPIENT OF THE PÉREZ PRIZE 2021
The Cuban artist has been named as the recipient of the $50,000 Pérez Prize for 2021. The award, funded by Jorge and Darlene Pérez, was announced at the annual Art of the Party fundraiser for the county’s public art museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, also supported by the Pérez family. The event raised over $500,000 for arts education.

A YEAR WITH CHILDREN: GUGGENHEIM’S ART-EDUCATION PROGRAM
The exhibition A Year with Children 2021 will showcase selected artworks by New York City public-school students in second through sixth grade who participated in Learning Through Art (LTA), the Guggenheim’s pioneering education program.

"DESPUÉS DE BABEL" - ART AND LINGUISTICS INQUIRE ABOUT THE CONFLICT OF IDENTITIES
BUENOS AIRES - Después de Babel.Traducciones rioplantenses (After Babel. River Plate Translations) addresses the issue of colonialism and independence from the linguistic point of view. Understanding translation as a practice and a tool, the focus is no longer on communication and a panorama of grays and misunderstandings opens up that serves to illustrate and explain the syncretism of European and American cultures. Through this magnifying glass, the exhibition visits the past and understands the globalized present to imagine possible futures of identities and cultural exchanges.

utopias of common life - BRAZIL’S PARTICIPATION IN THE 17TH BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA
The national representation at the Brazilian Pavilion dialogues with the overall theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021, How Will We Live Together? Curated Arquitetos Associados and Henrique Penha, the exhibition is realized by the Fundação Bienal in partnership with the Special Secretariat for Culture.

SÃO PAULO –PALACE OF THE ARTS EXHIBITS “TACTICS OF DISAPPEARANCE”
With curatorship by Nathalia Lavigne, this group exhibition, deals with a notion of disappearance reflecting how such a practice can be interpreted as a strategic attitude in the current context. The show features works by Aleta Valente, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Nino Cais, Regina Parra, Sallisa Rosa and Thiago Honório.

MARCELO BRODSKY IN THE NEW OPENFILE OF PINTA ART
OpenFile - video cycle where artists describe their works and elaborate on their artistic processes. This week, Marcelo Brodsky, an Argentine visual artist represented by the Rolf Art gallery, details his relationship with archival photography.

REPLICATOR, PHILLIPS’ FIRST NFT, SELLS FOR $4.1 MILLION
Mad Dog Jones’ REPLICATOR, a unique, multi-generational NFT, sets new auction record for a living Canadian artist.

BUENOS AIRES - THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS ALBERTO GRECO: YOU ARE GREAT!
This exhibition is the result of one of the most important investigations that the Museum has carried out, with which it is committed to honoring and sharing the enormous legacy of Alberto Greco with society.

art@work - NOT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD: A SELECTION OF WORKS BY WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MOSQUERA COLLECTION
This is Part I of a three-part collective exhibition, two years in the planning, that celebrates the twenty year anniversary of Art@Work. It showcases paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, photographs and video from female artists in the collection. Originally scheduled for December 2019 but delayed by unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition features sixty four artworks, including fourteen videos shown looped on three screens.

FLOR DE MAYO: MATERIAL AND TRANSOCEANIC POETRY
At La Casa Encendida, the artists David Horvitz (Los Angeles, 1982) and Javier Cruz (Madrid, 1985) exhibit a dialogue of objects and sound that proposes to alter our conception of space and time.

rīvus - BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 23RD EDITION
Open to the public from March 12 to June 13, 2022, this major international contemporary art event under the title rīvus will be articulated through a series of conceptual wetlands and imagined ecosystems populated by artworks, public programs, experiments, research and activisms, following the currents of meandering tributaries that expand into a delta of interrelated ideas.

PATIO HERRERIANO MUSEUM: AN PERSPECTIVE ON CONTEMPORARY SPANISH PAINTING
The Patio Herreriano Spanish Contemporary Art Museum in Valladolid presents a group exhibition conceived as a critical essay against the hegemonic perspective that the 1980s was the most interesting period in contemporary Spanish painting.

CHARLOTTE JOHANNESSON: FEMINIST TEXTILE AND DIGITAL ART
The Reina Sofía National Museum Center of Arts in Madrid presents for the first time the artwork of Swedish artist Charlotte Johannesson. Combining textile art and digital design, Johannesson's work is a key precedent for contemporary digital art and feminist artistic production.

LISBON – AT HOME PRESENTS PROJECTS FOR CONTEMPORARY LIVING
After one year in lockdown, literally "at home," Garagem Sul announces At Home, a pre-pandemic exhibition which demonstrates that architects have been long debating and experimenting with how and where we live. Curated by Margherita Guccione, Pippo Ciorra, André Tavares and Sérgio Catumba

BUENOS AIRES-BASED GALLERY ROLF ART EXHIBITS “RETHINK EVERYTHING” AT LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES
The festival, which takes part at various of the city's exceptional heritage sites, has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography. This year, Rolf Art exhibits “Rethink Everything: the power of art in times of isolation” with curatorship by Andrea Giunta and the collaboration of Julieta Tarraubella and Florencia Rugiero.

MADRID: NURIA MORA INTERVENES ON THE CASA ENCENDIDA'S FAÇADE
Within the framework of the MadBlue festival and quoting the Pixies' song, the artist from Madrid intervenes in the Casa Encendida with thirteen paintings that reproduce the phrase Where is my mind? in nautical alphabet.

GABRIELA RANGEL CLOSES HER CYCLE AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT MALBA FROM JUNE 2021
Two years after the announcement of her appointment, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires reports that Gabriela Rangel will leave her position as Artistic Director of the museum as of June, in the framework of an unprecedented international crisis marked by the pandemic.

OLAFUR ELIASSON: "LIFE", AN INSTINCTIVE EXPERIENCE AT THE BEYELER FOUNDATION
Olafur Eliasson presents site-specific installation Life at the Beyeler Foundation. Conceived to reflect on the relationship between culture and nature, the artwork is one of the artist's most daring pieces.

PINTA ART PRESENTS A NEW EDITION OF OPENFILE WITH JOSÉ CASTIELLA
The Pinta Group, directed by Diego Costa Peuser, and their respective fairs, both Pinta Miami and BAphoto, introduced a series of videos in which the artists presented their works. This time, the Madrid-based artista represented by the Ponce+Robles gallery talks about his painting and artistic endeavor.

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA NATIONAL MUSEUM: A TRIBUTE TO THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF ITS FOUNDER
As part of the centenary birth of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum of the same name in Madrid is inaugurating a series of exhibitions in his honour. Free admission until 18 April.