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Peter Emanuel Goldman and Straight Photography
Peter Emanuel Goldman was a celebrated filmmaker of the underground cinema and the only American link to the French New Wave during the sixties.
Christie’s presents a selling exhibition, _Colombia Recounted: A Project of Contemporary Colombian Art_
Christie’s announces a selling exhibition, Colombia Recounted: A Project of Contemporary Colombian Art, which offers a vision of contemporary Colombian art through artists who have played an important role in the development of the mentioned country’s art scene over the last decades.
Prada: Never Lose Sight of Elegance
Prada Foundation inaugurated a new building in Milan on Saturday, May 9. A few days earlier, the Foundation had opened its exhibition Portable Classic in Venice.
Museo Jumex Appoints Julieta González Chief Curator
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City has appointment Julieta González as chief curator and interim director of Museo Jumex. González, who will take up the post in July 2015, will substitute Patrick Charpenel, who directed the museum since its launch in November 2013. Charpenel resigned in February.
Vik Muniz in Buenos Aires
The Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero is presenting the exhibition VIK MUNIZ IN BUENOS AIRES, the first major retrospective of the renowned Brazilian artist in Argentina, which will also include the work Buenos Aires, from his series Postcards from Nowhere.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Cuba’s El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana Launch Historic Collaboration
The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana (MNBA) are launching an unprecedented joint arts initiative that is the culmination of years of planning and collaboration.
_My Buenos Aires_
This summer, La Maison Rouge in Paris will introduce My Buenos Aires, an exhibition that seeks to reveal an authentic Buenos Aires, rid of myths and preconceptions.
Jaime Davidovich:_Adventures of the Avant-Garde_
Jaime Davidovich is perhaps best known in New York for his original contributions to the video and television practices of the 1970s and early 1980s through Cable Soho and the Artists’ Television Network.
Abdul Vas
On the 15th of May the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Santiago de Chile (MAC) located in Quinta Normal, will host the individual show " Hell Ain’t A Bad Place to Be" by the artist Abdul Vas, who stepped into the contemporary art scene with a singular outlook marked by such disimilar elements as Baseball and Rock and Roll.
Glenda León
Hasta el próximo 26 de abril, puede uno adentrarse en Cada Respiro, la gran videoinstalación realizada específicamente por la artista Glenda León (La Habana, Cuba, 1976) para una de las naves del centro cultural Matadero Madrid.
_Archaeologies of Destruction 1958–2014_
In a 1976 interview with New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, composer John Cage proclaimed, "I am going toward violence rather than tenderness, hell rather than heaven, ugly rather than beautiful, impure rather than pure—because by doing these things they become transformed, and we become transformed."
_Vivid Memories 1984-2014_
“1400 artists exhibited, 150 in France and 82 abroad, 1300 works in the permanent collection. That is what 30 years of the Fondation Cartier represent”, Alain Dominique Perrin, president of the Fondation, points out in his speech on the opening day of the exhibition Vivid Memories.
El Presidente Juan Manuel Santos clausura la feria ARCOmadrid 2015, con Colombia como país invitado de honor
El Presidente de la República de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos fue el encargado de clausurar oficialmente la Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCOmadrid 2015, organizada por IFEMA, en la que este año Colombia es invitado de honor.
Bienal de las Fronteras
El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas (Matamoros, México) presenta este 5 de marzo de 2015 los resultados de la convocatoria pública abierta de la Bienal de las Fronteras, un programa auspiciado por el Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas a través del Instituto Tamaulipeco para la Cultura y las Artes (ITCA) en coordinación con el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA).
Colombia, país invitado de ARCOmadrid 2015
La Feria, con la colaboración de la Embajada de Colombia en España, se hará eco de la pujante escena artística colombiana
Octava edición del Premio illy SustainArt en ARCOmadrid2015
El comité curatorial del programa #SoloProjects selecciona tres artistas finalistas al Premio illy Sustain Art. El ganador se dará a conocer en la Feria, que se celebra del 25 de febrero al 1 de marzo
Mexican Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale
The Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Fine Arts announce the participation of Mexico in the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale. The selected project, Possessing Nature, curated by Karla Jasso, brings together the work of artists Tania Candiani and Luis Felipe Ortega.
Machado/Muñoz: un nuevo concepto de galería en Madrid
El próximo 19 de febrero abre sus puertas Machado/Muñoz, la primera galería de diseño y mobiliario contemporáneo de Madrid. Especializada en piezas únicas y ediciones limitadas, su programa expositivo propone un diálogo entre el talento nacional y una selección de autores internacionales.
Latin American Modern Design at Americas Society
Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978 - On View at Americas Society February 11 through May 16, 2015
Cai Guo-Qiang: La vida es una Milonga
Cai mina la identificación de la pólvora con China, al tiempo que alude a su uso medicinal original y a su actual connotación violenta. Tanto el proceso químico de la explosión como la creación, destrucción y desaparición de la obra en sí están concebidas para producir una catarsis, tanto física como conceptual.
The Third Shore
Kir Royal Gallery Valencia in collaboration with Polytechnic University of Valencia is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Third Shore" curated by Guibert Rosales and Eleonora Battiston (Kir Royal Gallery) and by Ricardo Forriols (UPV).
Juan Andrés Gaitán
The Colombian-Canadian curator Juan Andrés Gaitán was appointed director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, following the resignation of Carmen Cuenca.
Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Search for New Director
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is launching an international search for a director to replace Thom Collins, who will step down in March after guiding the museum’s successful move to a spectacular new waterfront venue, PAMM Board Chair Aaron Podhurst announced.
Jesús Rafael SOTO _Chronochrome_
Galerie Perrotin presents “Chronochrome,” a double exhibition dedicated to Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), held simultaneously in its Paris and New York spaces.
BLANTON MUSEUM ANNOUNCES MAJOR GIFT OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has been gifted approximately 120 modern and contemporary Latin American artworks from UT alumni Judy and Charles Tate of Houston.
All set for the 2014 Ch.ACO Art Fair!
With 30 galleries from Europe, USA and Latin America, 12 Pop_Up Spaces representing the tendency of Chilean pop art, 19 publishers and three collections on display, the Ch.ACO Art Fair will hold its sixth version with an attractive cultural agenda of artistic proposals.
ARTISTS FROM PERU, BOLIVIA AND CHILE PONDER ON THE SUBJECT _MY NEIGHBOUR. THE OTHER_ IN THE 3RD WEEK OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN ANTOFAGASTA.
In a context where the desert is a geographic reality as much as a metaphor in terms of the scene, the Week of contemporary Art or SACO is instated as a unique event in a national level, as a decentralizing statement that also projects the north of Chile internationally.
TWO GREAT SAO PAULO GALLERIES’ ANNIVERSARY
The year 2014 is a year of celebrations in Sao Paulo. Besides the opening of the FIFA World Cup, the city of Sao Paulo celebrates its famous Art Biennial and the tenth anniversary of its SP Arte fair, establishing itself as one of the nottobemissed appointments in the calendar of the Latin American art circuit.
Fantastic Architecture
Lygia Clark (1920-1988) has been a central figure in Brazilian culture since the 1950s. Her career followed a radical trajectory from abstract geometric work on canvas and paper to participatory works and experiential installations. During the early 1960s, Clark abandoned painting and collage in favour of interactive sculptures, including the Bichos [Creatures].
