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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.

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].

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 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.

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.

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.

On May 27, Sammer Gallery New York opened its doors with a solo exhibition, Wheels and Cylinders, of the renowned Uruguayan artist Ricardo Pascale.

“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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents “Darío Escobar: Broken Circle”, the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles of the acclaimed Guatemalan artist.

“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, 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.

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.

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.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting “Karina Chechik : Architectures of Light” , curated by Francine Birbragher.

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 is probably best known for the fellowship it grants every year to architects, writers, music composers and visual artists of Cuban origin.

Taking its title from the prehistoric landmass that conjoined Africa and Latin America, this major survey -“Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America”- at Saatchi Gallery, reunites the two former sister continents by bringing together the work of 16 of their contemporary artists.

“Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978”, curated by Harper Montgomery, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art, and the historic installation “Citrus 6906” by Héctor Fuenmayor are on display at Hunter College.

The Aspen Art Museum (AAM) announces the selection of renowned contemporary artist Ernesto Neto as the recipient of the museum’s 2014 Aspen Award for Art.

Until April 20, 2014 applications from all galleries of Chile and other countries that wish to be part of the show will be received. The organization will evaluate each of the spaces and give their verdict through www.feriachaco.cl

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s finest museums, seeks a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

The decade and a half that followed 1952 was a time of flourishing intellectual and artistic activity in Mexico. Based on extensive historical and archival research, Defying Stability offers a polyhedral vision of a decisive period in cultural modernity that cannot be encompassed by the reductive concept of so-called “Rupture”.