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Ruby Rumié at Nohra Haime Gallery
Ruby Rumié: Weaving Streets, is being on view at Nohra Haime Gallery from April 21st to June 10th and will include a series of photographs, a video, a poster, and five volumes on Cartagena’s ambulant street vendors.

Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
With this fifth posting, I continue to inform our online readers of the extraordinary exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA that offers 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 Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Argentine artist Juan Carlos Romero passed away
Born in Avellaneda, south of the Greater Buenos Aires, Romero became involved in the plastic arts from an early age. With a political imprint, throughout his career he has sought to develop unconventional plastic art techniques, such as mail art and urban interventions to which he gave a special dedication.

PST: LA/LA presents The U.S-Mexico Border: Place, imagination and possibility
With this fourth posting, I continue to inform our online readers of the unprecedented exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LALA/ that offers 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 The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility. Since September 10, 2017 – January 7, 2018 at the Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and stayed tuned.

Eduardo Carrera is the CAC – Quito new curator
The City Museums Foundation (FMC), with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Metropolitan District of Quito, conducted an open and public process to select the Coordinator of the Contemporary Art Center. The mentioned competition had the application of 130 postulants.

Second Argentine Performance Biennale Announces its Complete Program
From May 13th to June 7th 2017, BP.17 the Second Performance Biennale will take place. This year’s event includes 50 projects by more than 100 outstanding local and international artists. www.bp17.org

Tomás Saraceno presenta su primer exhibición individual en un museo de Argentina
The Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires presents Tomás Saraceno: Cómo atrapar el universo en una telaraña, the first individual exhibition in an Argentinian museum by Tomás Saraceno (born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán and resident in Berlin), which can be Visit until next August 27. In Av. San Juan 350.

Antarctic Biennale: The first biennial of performed in Antarctica
With the presence of the Minister of Culture of Argentina, Pablo Avelluto, the press conference that crowned the expedition was celebrated in the Faena Art Center. Antarctic Biennale brought together artists, scientific and global thinkers from all over the world in a cultural expedition without precedence.

Columbia University Previews Opening of the Lenfest Center for the Arts on its New Manhattanville Campus
Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus will come to life this spring with the opening of its first two completed buildings, the Lenfest Center for the Arts and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, both designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

PST: LA/LA presents Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art
Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, an unprecedented series of shows presenting rarely exhibited artworks, is part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles.

Open call for curators: The 2017 CPPC Travel Award
The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) announce The 2017 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Announces 2017 Grant Recipients
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in Miami has named the nine recipients of its 15th annual Grants & Commissions Program, including an achievement award to the post-conceptual artist Daniel Joseph Martinez.

XIX International Call for Young Artists by Luis Adelantado Valencia
With almost twenty years, XIX International Call for Young Artists organized by Luis Adelantado Valencia is one of the most important prize of Valencia. Last day of admissions: 19 April 2017

MALBA presents Broken Time by General Idea
Broken Time is the first retrospective in Latin America of General Idea, a collective of Canadian artists formed in 1969 by AA Bronson

The 9.99 Gallery presents Vulcanidad by Diana de Solares
The 9.99 Gallery presents Vulcanidad, an exhibition of the recent work by Diana de Solares, who, in an abstract and geometric language, presents artifacts, sculptures and paintings that, behind a formal vocabulary, enter into their own reflections on the World and the way we inhabit our spaces.

Waltercio Caldas’s first exhibition in the UK
Cecilia Brunson Projects announces brasilian artist´s first exhibition in the UK, that will open on March 30, 2017 and will run until May 19.

FLGallery presents Words are Wind by Raúl Cordero
Words are wind / Parole sono vento at the Federico Luger Gallery in Milan, is the first personal exhibition of the artist in Italy, and the fifth individual in Europe. It can be visited from 29 March to 25 May 2017

Sofía Ímber passed away at the age of 92 years olds
The decisive participation of Sofía Imber in the development of the journalism, art criticism, and cultural institutions of Venezuela made her one of the most influential figures in the contemporary history of the country and Latin America.

A goodbye to Alberto Sierra
The renowned Colombian artist died on March 19 after two weeks of hospitalization. This year was to prepare the commemoration of the 45 years of Galería de La Oficina.

Pacific Standard Time LA/LA prepares to open in September 15, 2017
The following Press Announcement continues my first posting regarding this extraordinary exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. We will look at Performance Art, Education programs, Support for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and the list of the participating institutions.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA counts down to September 15, 2017 opening
More than 70 Southern California Cultural Institutions will Offer Thematically Linked Exhibitions and Programs in a Four-Month-Long.

Esteban Lisa at Museu Fundación Juan March
Esteban Lisa: The Abstract Cabinet, open until 20 May, presents 37 works produced between 1930 and 1968 by the Spanish/Argentine artist Esteban Lisa, one of the pioneering figures in twentieth-century Latin American and Spanish abstract art.

50 Years of Mexican Modern Art at Dallas Museum of Art
Organized in Collaboration with the Secretaría de Cultura de México, México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde Highlights New Narratives in Mexico’s Modern Art History and Marks First Exhibition at DMA Organized by Agustín Arteaga

Jumex Museum presents Robert Ryman
From March 4 to April 30, 2017 the Jumex Museum will present an ontological exhibition that gathers six decades of transcendental paintings by Robert Ryman.

Metropolitan Museum’s Director Resigns Under Pressure
Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure on Tuesday as the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Escalera Estudios opens its doors
This Saturday 4 March will open Escalera Estudios, a new space of artistic productions that has 11 workshops and an exhibition room.

Nohra Haime Gallery presents Feminist Feminine
Feminist Feminine, an impressive display of women artists and converging cultures spanning from the 1960s and 70 to present day, opened at Nohra Haime Gallery on Tuesday, January 24th.

Jorge Macchi presents Perspectiva at CA2M in Spain
The anthological exhibition, presented by MALBA in 2016 and curated by Agustin Perez Rubio, is translated to Spain and coincides with ARCOmadrid2017, where Argentine is the guest of honor.

Jaime Gili: Guarimba at Cecilia Brunson Projects
Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Guarimba, a new exhibition by Jaime Gili from 17 February to 17 March 2017.

Estancia FEMSA - Casa Luis Barragán presents DADA Zurich
The exhibition brings the most significant printed testimonies of Dadaism, one of the most influential avant-gardes of its time and with the greatest echo at the international level during the 20th century.