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25 YEARS OF ARTEXARTE-ALFONSO AND LUZ CASTILLO’S FOUNDATION
On November 23 of this very particular 2020, ArtexArte-Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo reaches twenty-five years of activity.
PAMM REOPENED AND EXHIBITS ‘ALLIED WITH POWER: AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA ART FROM THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION’
On view until July 2021, the show celebrates the most recent acquisitions to Jorge M. And Darlene Pérez’ Collection, which consists of a sizable selection of international African and African Diaspora artists.
FLAVIA GANDOLFO: "DE UN PUNTO A OTRA" AT THE MUSEO DE ARTE DE LIMA
Curated by Miguel López, “From one point to the other” is the first monographic exhibition of the artist, one of the most outstanding photographers of her generation. The exhibition is open to the public from November 12, 2020 to May 16, 2021.
FARSA. LANGUAGE, FRACTURE AND FICTION: BRAZIL - PORTUGAL
Sesc Pompeia presents FARSA, curated by Marta Mestre and with adjunct curatorship by Pollyana Quintella. Referring to the universe of language, works produced in Brazil and Portugal by contemporary visual artists are exposed. The institution, when carrying out such activity, reaffirms the importance of knowing the influences of different ethnicities and communities in the historical and cultural formation of a country, understanding the plurality of references in the constitution of identities.
VENTO [WIND] - GROUP EXHIBITION AT THE 34TH BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO
The Fundação Bienal exhibits Vento [Wind] from November 14 to December 13 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion as part of the program of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo – Though it’s dark, still I sing.
MALBA AND GALLERY WEEKEND SANTIAGO - CONNECTING KEY SPACES OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
From November 12 to 21, this annual visual arts milestone brings together the most important galleries in the country. In its fourth version, it focuses on outstanding Chilean artists, launches its digital platform for art sales and offers online guided tours of national and Latin American exhibitions, among other experiences of connection through art.
CISNEROS INSTITUTE AND MoMA PRESENT ‘REWEAVING OURSELVES: CONTEMPORARY ECOLOGY THROUGH THE IDEAS OF JUAN DOWNEY’
This is the second online conference organized by the Cisneros Institute at MoMA and conceived by guest curator Julieta González as part of a three-year research initiative on the relationships between art and the environment in Latin America. (The online sessions will be in English. Videos with Spanish subtitles will be posted in December)
BUENOS AIRES – MALBA REOPENS WITH TWO EXHIBITIONS
Today, Thursday, November 5, the MALBA opens its doors after almost eight months of being closed. The first week (until Wednesday 11/11) admission will be free with prior online reservation www.malba.org.ar
A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING: VOICES OF UNREST IN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 20 YEARS OF THE BETH RUDIN DEWOODY COLLECTION
Organized by the Taubman Museum of Art featuring works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience shines light on the widespread feelings of anxiety in contemporary art.
THE REINA SOFÍA MUSEUM CELEBRATES ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A MAJOR EXHIBITION ABOUT MONDRIAN AND DE STIJL
The Museum opened in 1990 with the aim of becoming a leading art institution, in an event that was also the inauguration of the exhibition Memory of the future. Italian art from early avant-garde to post-war. The goals of the museum were to assemble an important collection of modern and contemporary art, to turn into a dynamic center of new tendencies and artists, to develop an academic network of research and education and to act as an active cultural promoter.
TAI KWUN CONTEMPORARY PRESENTS “WET FEET __ DRY FEET: BORDERS AND GAMES” BY FRANCIS ALŸS
Curated by Xue Tan and Sunjung Kim, Wet feet __ dry feet: borders and games brings together three interconnected projects by Francis Alÿs (born 1959 in Belgium and based in Mexico City since the 1980s), widely perceived as one of the most influential conceptual artists of our time.
OLAFUR ELIASSON: Y/OUR FUTURE IS NOW IN SERRALVES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
It’s a major exhibition by the Danish-Icelandic artist, his first in Portugal. In this exhibition, the artist places several large-scale installations both organic and artificial within the museum as well as in the surrounding parkland.
FUNDACIÓN AUGUSTO Y LEÓN FERRARI ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF A DATABASE
Since 2019, FALFAA has been working on the restructuring of its own database, originally designed by León and FALFAA in 2008, and which today has more than 5,000 works records.
JOËL DÍAZ APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF WALTER O. EVANS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Established in 2011 in Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the center’s mission is to promote wide public knowledge and appreciation of African American culture. Díaz is an experienced leader and community builder within education and the arts.
LANDMARKS PRESENTS NEW COMMISSIONED WORK BY COLOMBIAN ARTIST MONIKA BRAVO
Titled An Interval of Time and sited at University of Texas’ Jackson School of Geosciences, Bravo’s digital animation weaves together geological data with images of Iceland, Colombia, New Mexico and Colorado, looped across three flat screen displays.
MARÍA MARTÍNEZ-CAÑAS RECIPIENT OF THE OOLITE ARTS 2020 MICHAEL RICHARDS AWARD
The award was created in tribute to Michael Richards (1963–2001), an incisive, provocative and poetic artist whose body of work primarily addresses racial inequity and social injustice. An Oolite Arts alum, Richards passed away tragically in his art studio in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
NICANOR ARÁOZ: SUEÑO SÓLIDO IN THE MUSEO MODERNO OF BUENOS AIRES
Aráoz’ solo exhibition Solid Dream was inaugurated virtually on Saturday, October 24, in the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, within the framework of the Museums Illuminate festival organized by RAME (Argentine Network of Museums and Art Spaces)
ARCO 2021 – MADRID / LISBON
Since its origins in 1982 in Madrid and 2016 in Lisbon, the ARCO fair has worked for the sustainable development of a market for art in a national context with an international vision; it has enhanced knowledge and learning about art and invented new ways to build bridges between places, people and ideas.
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO RECEIVES $4 MILLION "AMERICA'S CULTURAL TREASURES" INITIATIVE GRANT FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION AND PARTNERS
New York- El Museo del Barrio receives the grant award to support the museum's curatorial and education programs, general operations, and $100,000 to support organizational capacity building, particularly in key areas including digital strategies and other needs.
THE INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON IS AT RISK
As of November this year, the decision was made by the University of London to shut down the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)
HUGO BOSS PRIZE - 2020 FINALISTS
From a short list of 6 artist, the recipient of the award will be announced on October 22 on Guggenheim’s Instagram.
NURIA ENGUITA NAMED DIRECTOR AT THE INSTITUT VALENCIÀ D’ART MODERN
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) has appointed Enguita as the institution’s new director after an international selection process.
OPEN SPACE #7 JEAN CLARACQ AT THE FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris presents French painter Jean Claracq (born 1991, France), for his first solo exhibition in a museum. Since childhood, Jean Claracq has been fascinated with the history of art, drawing inspiration from mediaeval illumination to photography via Renaissance painting.
ARGENTINE ARTIST FERNANDA LAGUNA EXHIBITS “AS EVERYBODY”
At the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Laguna presents both visual and written artworks.
BARCELONA – FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE EXHIBITS WORKS BY BILL BRANDT
This is the first retrospective in Spain on Bill Brandt (1904-1983), considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Produced by Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Ramón Esparza, the exhibition brings together 186 photographs developed by Brandt himself who, over the course of five decades, made use of almost all the photographic genres: social documentary, portraiture, the nude and landscape.
XXV DESIGN AUCTION - MALI 2020
The Art Museum of Lima organizes an online auction with live broadcast on Saturday, October 17, including a pre-sale until that day.
MUSEO JUMEX PRESENTS PASSERBY 04: ANNI ALBERS
The fourth exhibition in the Passersby series explores the way in which Anni Albers’s (Germany, 1899 - USA, 1994) trips to Mexico influenced her work in different fields; in addition to outlining the personal and professional relationships forged through this experience. Likewise, the exhibition analyzes her oeuvre and draws parallelisms between modern artistic practices and the ancient and contemporary cultures of America.
A TRIBUTE TO BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ: THE MASTER
BOGOTÁ - The Miguel Urrutia Art Museum (MAMU) reopens its doors to the public with a retrospective of the artist Beatriz González.
CENTRO BOTÍN NEW EXHIBITION - ARCHITECTURE AND ART: A DIALOGUE
If the object of architecture is, in the first instance, functional, the fact that its dominant criterion is utilitarian does not preclude aesthetic concerns. Thus, the early 20th century witnessed the emergence of the highly influential Modern Movement, with its core principle that “form follows function”, a tenet perfectly exemplified by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus architects – Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer or Mies van der Rohe, among others.
THE CAMP GALLERY AND FAMA ANNOUNCE “FORTY WOMEN PULLING AT THE THREADS OF SOCIAL DISCOURSE”
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The Camp Gallery) in collaboration with Fiber Artists-Miami Association, (FAMA) announces their signature art exhibition to commemorate American women winning the vote.
JORGE MACCHI EXHIBITS “THE SUBMERGED CATHEDRAL” IN SWITZERLAND
The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (MCBA) presents a new site-specific installation by Jorge Macchi (born 1963, lives and works in Buenos Aires).