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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].
_Drawing, out of control_
The exhibition El Dibujo Fuera de Sí: Tríptico de Venezuela (1970-2014) will be held from July 11 through September 21 at the Sala de Arte of Instituto de Canarias Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain).
Arte al Día Internacional together with Global Art Agenda
Arte al Día Internacional joins the project Global Art Agenda, an innovative application designed to manage, organize and share the vast and scattered information on the most important international art events.
Towards new metaphors of reality
Airmail Paintings in exile scattered throughout the world; a mural in the form of a big puzzle made of tourist brochures and magazines; visual cacophony generated by a terrifying urban development; violence transmuted into song.
Movil: A Renewed Space for Contemporary Art Opens with Irina Kirchuk
Curators Alejandra Aguado and Solana Molina Viamonte opened with Móvil a modality of management which to date was not known in Argentina. The project was launched with the exhibition Termo by Irina Kirchuk at CheLA, an industrial building of Parque Patricios.
The new Sammer Gallery New York
On May 27, Sammer Gallery New York opened its doors with a solo exhibition, Wheels and Cylinders, of the renowned Uruguayan artist Ricardo Pascale.
Pedro Reyes´ Mis-en-scene at the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
“The Permanent Revolution” is an original mis-en-scene by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, in which, through the narrative format of theater, he investigates the two great ideological tensions that still permeate contemporary culture: Socialism and Capitalism.
Juan Manuel Echevarría´s _“Filme NN”_ in _“Contraexpediciones. Más allá de los mapas”_ at the Museo de Antioquia, Colombia
The Museo de Antioquia presents “ Contraexpediciones. Más allá de los mapas”, a reflection through diverse artistic practices on the forms in which local communities inhabit their territories.
ArteBA 2014 : Record sales to museums and institutions.
From the argentinian context, the National Museum of Fine Arts acquired the work by Graciela Sacco "Endangered extinct: Passion" a blueprint for refrigerator 1994 (Rolf Art Gallery), the Malba joined his collection a Margarita Paksa´s work (Document -Art Gallery), the video "Give Face" by Jose Alejandro Restrepo (Gallery Ignacio Liprandi) and two vintage photographs by Annemarie Heinrich (Galeria Vasari).
The New Artistic director for MALBA | Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
The recent appointment of the internationally acclaimed historian and curator Agustín Pérez Rubio (Valencia, Spain, 1972) as Artistic Director of MALBA is an event of great importance, since it ratifies a new era of the museum.
William Cordova´S Exhibition _“Ceiba: Reconsidering Ephemeral Spaces”_ At Moad, Miami
The Museum of Art + Design, from Miami Dade College (MDC) will present the most recent art Project by William Córdova, graduated from MDC, in the inaugural exhibition of Swing/Sapace/Miami, at the Freedom Tower, Historic National Monument.
The Bronx Museum Explores Artists’ Responses to Modernist Architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean
The indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary artists will be explored by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition “Beyond the Supersquare”, on view May 1, 2014 through January 11, 2015.
SITElines.2014: _Unsettled Landscapes_, a Reimagined Biennial with a New Focus on Contemporary Art from the Americas
SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the selection of 45 artists and artist collaboratives from 16 countries to be included in the inaugural edition of SITElines, SITE Santa Fe’s new biennial exhibition series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas.
Exhibition: _Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today_ at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
From June 13 through October 1, 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, which marks the second phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.
CA2M presents the XXI Image Symposium: _Monstrous Compositions. The Documentary Dispositive at Work_
As part of the XXI Sessions for the Study of Images, the Centro Cultural 2 de Mayo, CA2M, Madrid, is organizing the Symposium: "Monstrous Compositions.
_Darío Escobar: Broken Circle_, at the Craft & Folk Art Museum, CAFAM, Los Angeles
The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents “Darío Escobar: Broken Circle”, the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles of the acclaimed Guatemalan artist.
IN MEMORIAM
“I have never been strictly abstract or strictly figurative. What I have always been is strictly Oswaldo Vigas”. This quote by one of the key figures of Latin American modernity, who was born in Valencia, Venezuela in 1926, and who died this past 22 of April at 88 years old in his country of origin, defines what was his existence and, within it, the entirety of a great and powerful creative journey that resists classification.
Saludarte Foundation 2014 _Curatorial Program presents Uprooting Architecture (Constructing non-places)_ in Miami
Saludarte Foundation, in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes, University of Miami, and the National Media Museum (UK), is pleased to announce “Uprooting Architecture” exhibition series, that will be presented from April to December 2014 at the Foundation space in Wynwood (Miami), curated by Roc Laseca.
_“Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below”_ at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Demonstrating the artist's remarkable ability to transform materials and their surrounding architecture into an enveloping perceptual experience, “Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below” combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.
Iván Navarro: _“This Land is Your Land”_ at Mad. SQ. Art in New York
Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art is presenting a new sculptural installation that will be on view until April 20ht: “This Land Is Your Land” by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro.
_“Architectures of Light”_ by Karina Chechik at the Frost Art Museum
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting “Karina Chechik : Architectures of Light” , curated by Francine Birbragher.
_“Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988”,_ a major retrospective at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art presents a major retrospective devoted to the art of Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920–1988), the first comprehensive exhibition in North America of her work.
The Cintas Foundation
The Cintas Foundation is probably best known for the fellowship it grants every year to architects, writers, music composers and visual artists of Cuban origin.
