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A multimedia art-exhibition held by the University of Dayton's Department of Visual Arts presents an international roster of participating artists including Isabel Avila, Juan Si Gonzalez, Merve Kayan, Sheryl Oring, and Issa Randall.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

Tate Modern is presenting the first international full-scale survey of the work of Mira Schendel (1919–1988) until 19 January 2014. Schendel is one of Latin America's most important and prolific post-war artists. Alongside her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Schendel reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil.

"The end of the world will be, above all, a space to think,” says Adrián Villar Rojas (Rosario, Argentina, 1980). At first sight, his work appears to be a natural consequence of present-day art.

Eunyoung Choi, Yanghyun Foundation’s Chief Director is pleased to announce the Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander as the recipient of the 2013 Yanghyun Prize. Neuenschwander has been selected by the jury panel consisting of Fumio Nanjo, Director of Mori Art Museum, and Philippe Vergne, Director of Dia Art Foundation.

Javier Bernal-Arévalo, winner of the National Artistic Residence granted by the Colombian Ministry for Culture, stayed during six weeks at the Deuxsoleils House (Honda, Colombia), headquarter for residences of Flora: ars+natura.

Ten years ago, Haitian-born, South Florida artist Edouard Duval-Carrié joined with students and teachers from Fort Lauderdale’s Dillard High School in a unique collaboration that resulted in the creation of The Indigo Room.

The Colombian artist Alberto Baraya is presenting the exhibition “Naturalism/Artificiality: Expeditions, and Research of the Herbarium of Artificial Plants!, curated by Francine Birbragher at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami.

The light and intangible weight of guilt, the art project that Ronald Morán is presenting at Espacio ERRE in Guatemala, is an exploration that inquires into the potential of the “dematerialization” of the object as a strategy to reveal, by contrast, harsh and silenced aspects of the socio-political reality, versus their implication in the collective imaginary.

Located in the heart of South Beach on Lincoln Road, the area’s popular pedestrian mall, ArtCenter South Florida’s Studio Residency Program houses 38 subsidized workspaces for visual artists. Studio spaces range from 175 to 900 square feet and residencies may vary from six months to two years.

The Office of Aesthetic Occupation and Helena Producciones have teamed up to initiate a provoking event which explores the development of forms and kinds of generosity in the beginning of the 21st century at the Prinzessinnengarten: a community garden/ socially engaged space located in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

The Juan March Fundation inaugurates the exhibition Surrealistas antes del surrealismo. La fantasía y lo fantástico en la estampa, el dibujo y la fotografía (Surrealists Before Surrealismo. The Fantasy and the Fantastic in the Stamp, the Drawing and the Photography) on October 4th.

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ARCOmadrid announces that Magali Arriola, Marcio Harum, Sharon Lerner and Tobias Ostrander have been named as the curatorial team for #SoloProjects Focus Latin America at ARCOmadrid 2014.

Chile awarded the National Art Prize to Alfredo Jaar (b.1956; Santiago, Chile). “This prize –explains the art critic, curator and poet Antonio Arévalo- was born during the government of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda in 1940 and consists of both prize money, and a pension for life.

Matadero Madrid inaugurated “ Cenotes”, a site specific intervention by the Chilean artist Magdalena Atria at Abierto x Obras.

"The Man with the Ax and Other Brief Situations" (El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves) is Liliana Porter's (Buenos Aires, 1941) first solo exhibition at the Malba- Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires), Argentina. It is a site-specific installation created specially for the artist for the Malba's third wing.

AIGA, the professional association for design, is hosting the exhibition, “Estrada: Sailing Through Design,” on view through October 11, 2013 at the AIGA National Design Center in New York.

On the occasion of the exhibition of works by the Mexican artist Mario García Torres (Mexico, 1975) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NuMu, we are reproducing the text written by the exhibition curator, María Inés Rodríguez.

For the first time in the Wittliff Collections´ history, there is a solo exhibition of prints by Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), one of the founders of modern photography.

The Colombian curator José Roca, current Estrellita Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern, London, has written an open letter to define the spirit that inspired him to create in Colombia, together with his wife, Adriana, the Flora ars + natura art space, located in the San Felipe neighborhood in Bogotá, as a link between the local and the international scene, and including a residency space in the town of Honda, on the banks of the Magdalena River, which will host artists-in-residence.

Affectionately known as New York's sixth borough, Miami Beach has long beckoned New York artists an collectors seeking fresh perspectives and revitalization.

Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, announced that distinguished independent curator Pablo León de la Barra has been selected as Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America.

The Paris based duo Atelier Morales is representing Cuba with the Project “ Tribute to Monet”, as part of the collateral exhibition “ Personal Structures”, at the Palazzo Bembo, during the 55 Venice Biennale. This ongoing global art project initiated in 2002, includes more than 70 invited artists from over two dozen countries.

The Centro de Artes Visuales Contemporáneo CAVC/MUA in Tegucigalpa, Honduras presents “memeplex@ N14°06'17" W87°11'59 " by Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, a site-specific installation in Sala MAC with multiple sculptural elements that invade the walls referencing collision, transformation, contamination and subversion.

The great Argentine artist León Ferrari has passed away at the age of 92. He boasted an international artistic trajectory featuring a production that goes across time, re-signifying itself through different instances of social denouncement.

The Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Canada's leading contemporary photography award, announced the long list of 14 finalists from around the world, submitted by a group of eight international nominators including the Guatemalan Regina José Galindo and the Mexican Edgardo Aragon.

Internationally known for his captivating, three-dimensional visual illusions, Argentine artist Leandro Erlich has been commissioned by the Barbican, to create a new installation in the Dalston district of London, England.