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 Rolf Art announces the new individual exhibition of the Argentine artist Francisco Medail, titled "Photographs 1930 - 1943". With the curatorship of Veronica Tell, the exhibition can be visited from Wednesday August 1 to September 29, 2017.

Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz has been awarded the II Photography Prize Madame Figaro-Rencontres de'Arles, for the exhibition she presented at this international photo event that began on July 3, the museum of the Jeu De Paume reported.

Jean Paul Zelada, outstanding Peruvian visual artist, presents at La Galeria  the individual exhibition titled Total Indiferencia. This exhibition -novena in its trajectory- is conformed by a series of ten oil paintings of great format.

Renowned Belgian-born German artist Carsten Höller will lead the Villa Iris Visual Arts Workshop due to take place in Santander between September 4 and 15.

BAphoto with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation presented the first activity of Federal Impulse, a new proposal belonging to the extension program of the fair. With the aim of stimulating the interest and the diffusion of the Argentine photography towards new audiences a series of educative activities are being carried out in different provinces of the Argentine Republic.

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas is my tenth posting. The exhibition is one of three that includes Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (5^th posting) and Photography in Argentina: Contradiction and Continuity (9^th posting). The three exhibitions are organized by the Getty, which is publishing three catalogues covering a diverse body of Latin American material culture and artwork by artists working in concrete or neo-concrete languages in postwar art in Argentina and Brazil to contemporary photographers capturing life today to luxury arts of the ancient Americas. The Getty is presenting work that deepens the fields of art history, conservation, and Latin American history. 

The Museum of Art Patricia & Phillip Frost FIU celebrates this summer the art of Mexican photography with two exhibitions: Becoming Mexico: Manuel Carrillo's Photography and Possible Worlds: Photography and Fiction in Mexican Contemporary Art.

Next Thursday, July 13, In the Beginning, the first exhibition of work by Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) to be held in Argentina, will open at MALBA. Curated by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), this exhibition of one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century brings together over one hundred photographs produced by the artist between 1956 and 1962, the period when she developed the themes central to her oeuvre and her singular vision, which attempted, as the artist herself put it, to register “divineness in ordinary things.” The exhibition is the first collaboration between The Met and any institution in Argentina.

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired an original model of the Fiat 500F “Berlina,” commonly referred to as the Cinquecento.

For the first time, a large solo exhibition on the internationally renowned artist Tomás Saraceno (born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is to be held in Switzerland. Curated by Sabine Schaschl, the exhibition could be visited until 3 September 2017.

Museo Amparo presents Ni héroes ni mártires by Juan Fernando Herrán, curated by Albertine de Galbert, Elena Lespes Muñoz and Ananay Arango. It is the second exhibition shown within the Encuentros Latinoamericanos programme (Latin American Encounters), hosted annually by the museum.

From next July 11, 2017 will be able to visit the exhibition Mirada Prospectiva, a new tour on the large production of the Argentine artist Luis Felipe Noé.

The Peruvian gallery opens its new branch in Buenos Aires with "Paisaje Infinito” a collective exhibition of its most representative artists.

The Argentine artist presents her first book that documents part of her last ten years of work, next Tuesday, July 4 in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

This summer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Wild: Michael Nichols, the first major exhibition of the work of one of the world’s leading photographers.

Galerie Lelong is pleased to present Grupo Frente, the first in-depth U.S. Exhibition of the historic Rio de Janeiro-based artist group. The exhibition will include works by Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Abraham Palatnik, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa, and will shed light on lesser known members such as Aluísio Carvão, João José Costa, Rubem Ludolf, César Oiticica, and Décio Vieira.

With this ninth posting, I continue to inform our online readers Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Below is the announcement of Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Our next posting we be on the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas.

Multipart exhibition includes over 170 works by contemporary Cuban artists, PAMM’s largest dedicated Cuban art exhibition to date, highlighting recent acquisitions and donated works from Jorge M. Pérez. On view: June 9, 2017 – April 8, 2018

From September 18 to December 15, 2017, ArtCenter/South Florida and the Bureau for Cultural Strategies (BUX) are organizing The Recalibrated Institution: a 12-week paid fellowship and laboratory in Miami for developing and testing intelligences that address emerging and long-term systemic challenges.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announces a new curatorial fellowship thanks to the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at PAMM is offered to students of underrepresented ethnic backgrounds who have completed their studies at the undergraduate level and is designed to help individuals interested in embarking on a curatorial career.

With this eighth posting, I continue to inform our online readers of the unprecedented exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. More than 75 Southern California Cultural Institutions will offer thematically linked exhibitions and programs in a four-month-long, region-wide exploration of Latin American and Latino Art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Have a look at the below summary of Martín Ramírez: his Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation at the ICA LA on view from September 9 to December 31, 2017.

Alison Jacques Gallery presents the gallery's second solo exhibition by Cuban-born artist, Ana Mendieta (b. 1948 Havana, Cuba; d. 1985 New York City, NY). This is the first solo show of Ana Mendieta's work in the UK since her retrospective Traces, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal at the Hayward Gallery in 2013.

As every year, the company renewed its commitment to the local artistic scene acquiring works of Rondolini, Pierpaoli, Guerrieri, Soriano, Demestre and Gruppalli that join the collection of La Rural.

Until Friday 3 June, it is possible to visit the new exhibition by the Argentine artist Carlos Huffmann in Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte.

From May 18 to June 30, Diego Ortiz Mugica presents "Water - Photographs, Black and White and Gray" at the CCK, a retrospective exhibition of 50 fine art works spanning more than forty years.

El Parque de la Memoria - Monumento a las Víctimas del Terrorismo de Estado presents in the PAyS room the exhibition "Destierro" by Anish Kapoor. The artist arrives in Argentina and exhibits for the first time in this country a sample designed especially for this space of art and memory.

Chandon surprises the year after year by inviting the most important contemporary Latin American artists to present a work in the Chandon Space. For this new edition of arteBA, which is open to the public from May 24 to 27, Chandon chose Eduardo Basualdo to offer a different experience to the visitors of the fair through his installation "Freelancer". In addition, Chandon is once again the sponsor of the ArteBA Young Quarter, the space of the fair where galleries and spaces that represent artists of young trajectory participate.

arteBA Fundación announces a new edition of Solo Show Zurich at arteBA 2017, set to take place from Wednesday May 24th to Saturday, May 27th at La Rural in Buenos Aires. For this year’s edition, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy (curator for contemporary art at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas) has been incorporated to curate the section. 

Henrique Faria Buenos Aires gallery celebrates the presence of artists Marta Minujín and Nicolás García Uriburu in Documenta 14 Athens-Kassel and the 57th edition of the Venice Biennial respectively. Minujín and García Uriburu are linked to the gallery, which has worked intensively to put its work in the market and specialized criticism through a sustained participation in fairs and events of the international calendar.

With this seventh posting, I continue to inform our online readers of the unprecedented exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LALA/ that offers thematically linked exhibitions and programs during a four-month-long, region-wide exploration of Latin American and Latino Art in dialogue with Los Angeles.