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New York & Miami Emerging Artists Collide at ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami
Affectionately known as New York's sixth borough, Miami Beach has long beckoned New York artists an collectors seeking fresh perspectives and revitalization.
Pablo León de la Barra Appointed Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America
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.
Atelier Morales at Palazzo Bembo during the 55 Venice Biennale
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.
Patricia Villalobos at the CAVC/MUA, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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.
Scadalous León (1920-2013)
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.
Regina José Galindo and Edgardo Aragón among the Finalists of the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize 2013
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.
Leandro Erlich Commissioned by the Barbican, London
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.
Bonnie Clearwater will lead the NSU's Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale | Florida, into an era of transformation
Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) President and CEO, George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., announced the appointment of Bonnie Clearwater, M.A., as the new Director of NSU's Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. She will begin leading the Nova Southeastern University’s Museum of Art “into an era of unprecedented transformation and growth” on September 3, 2013.
Adriana Varejão
Adriana Varejão’s passionate and generous oeuvre opened Malba-Fundación Costantini’s 2013 exhibitions season after having previously been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. The retrospective exhibition “Adriana Varejão.
Fugalternativa presents Salvadorean Artists in Miami
Vanishing and Convergence Points: Salvadorean Artists in Perspective, an exhibition presented by Fugalternativa at Biscayne Art House, reflects the diversity and strength of the country’s artistic practices, originated in a peripheral zone in relation to the hegemonic centers, from which the idea of what is characterized as “global” is constructed.
The Brazilian César Meneghetti at the Kenyan Pavilion in the 55th Biennale di Venezia
For the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, the Pavilion of the Republic of Kenya and its curators (Sandro Orlandi and Paola Poponi), have chosen the Island of San Servolo for the Italo-Brazilian artist César Meneghetti's Special Project “I/O _IO È UN ALTRO”, (Y/O_ Yo es otro) curated by Simonetta Lux and Alessandro Zuccari, and commissioned by Antonio Arévalo in partnership with the Community of Sant’Egidio's Laboratori d’Arte.
New Colombian exhibition at the IDB, Washington
"The Marvelous Real: Colombia through the Eyes of its Artists," the new exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), curated by Felix Angel, is a visual route that, through sampling, explores the evolution of art in Colombia from Pre-Hispanic times through the artworks of several of its most important artists.
François Bucher rediscovers the archaeologist Daniel Ruzo at the 55th Biennale di Venezia
François Bucher (b. 1972) is the artist chosen to represent Colombia at the Latin American Pavilion -IILA of the 55th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte- la Biennale di Venezia, at the invitation of the curator Alfons Hug, who presents the exhibition "The Atlas of the Empire".
Damián Ortega´s _"Apestraction"_ at the Freud Museum, London
The Freud Museum comes together with the University College London´s Gashaka Primate Project to present “ Apestraction”, a solo exhibition of works by Mexican artist Damián Ortega.
_Nefandus_, Award-winning Video and Solo Show by Carlos Motta in Lisbon
Nefandus, a new video by Carlos Motta won the Catalonia Hotels Award 2013 at LOOP 2013 to the best work selected by the jury (Valentijn Byvanck, Bartomeu Marí, Mark Nash and Dirk Snauwaert).
Commemorative Exhibition in Honor of Remedios Varo in the 50th anniversary of her death at the MAM, Mexico
The Museo de Arte Moderno - MAM - in Mexico City announced the commemorative exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the passing away of Remedios Varo: “The Dimension of Thought”, which will take place from August 14 to October 26 and will be curated by Marisol Argüelles.
Pan American Modernism at Lowe Art Museum
Featuring works by artists from across the Americas, Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States, curated by Nathan Timpano, explores, for the first time at the Lowe Art Museum, the rich visual dialogues that exist between objects produced by individuals working in 13 countries in North, South and Central America during the 60 year period that spans 1919 to 1979.
A Public Textual Intervention by Nayda Collazo-Llorens in Miami Beach
The Bass Museum of Art along with Miami Beach Botanical Garden and ArtCenter/South Florida present Nayda Collazo-Llorens: Pleasure, Fear and the Pursuit of Happiness.
_Pedro Cabrita Reis: a remote whisper_ at the Palazzo Falier, during the 55th Biennale di Venezia
“ A remote whisper” is an all-over intervention by Pedro Cabrita Reis, specifically produced as one of the collateral events on the occasion of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, which encompasses all the rooms of Palazzo Falier’s 'piano nobile.'
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents the Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will inaugurates on June 23 the exquisite Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art, which has been on long-term loan to the museum for several years and has undergone extensive research by curators and conservators during that time.
El Museo’s Bienal 2013: “Here is Where we Jump”
La Bienal 2013, El Museo del Barrio’s 7th biennial exhibition, inaugurated on June 12, features work by 37 emerging Latino and Latin American artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in New York City metropolitan area.
The Latin American Pavilion: Subjective Cartographies at the Biennale di Venezia
“El Atlas del Imperio” (The Atlas of the Empire) the exhibition presented for the Latin American Pavilion of the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), inside the venue of Isolotto dell'Arsenale, was organized by Sylvia Irrazábal, IILA´s commissioner, with Alfons Hug as curator and Paz Guevara as co-curator.
IN MEMORIAM
Berenice Arvani Gallery announces the death on June 6, 2013, of the Argentine visual artist Manuel Álvarez.
Common Projects: Kaarina Kaikkonen’s _Traces” and “Dialogues_
The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen is presenting two exhibitions in two different venues in Santiago: “ Traces”, featured on one of the staircases of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and “Dialogues”, held in the National Museum of Fine Arts.
New Records at the Latin American art auctions in New York
New records for Latin American artists and works were set during the May auctions devoted to this area in the diverse international auction houses in New York.
The 9th Bienal do Mercosul / Porto Alegre launched its pedagogical program
The 9th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre launched Cloud Formations, a five-month pedagogical program especially designed for the educators, mediators and aficionados of the 9th edition, which takes place from 13 September to 10 November, 2013, weather permitting.
IN MEMORIAM
The Argentine artist Enio Iommi (b. Rosario, Santa Fe Province, 1926) has passed away. He was born to be a sculptor, and he absorbed art in the bosom of his Rosario family.
Eugenio Dittborn at the Museum Het Domein
The Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn (b. 1943, Santiago) is internationally acclaimed with the Airmail Paintings that he has been making since 1983.
“Pop Up” gallery gathers together six Peruvian artists in Switzerland, in the exhibition _Universos paralelos (Parallel Universes)_
Nest Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, provides the setting for the exhibition Universos paralelos (Parallel Universes), which gathers together six Peruvian artists under the curatorship of Caroline Briceño.
_Adrián Villar Rojas: la inocencia de los animales (The Innocence of Animals)_ at MoMA PS1
Adrián Villar Rojas: La inocencia de los animales (The innocence of animals) is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator-at-Large, MoMA.
Tania Candiani
The Project Five Variations of Phonic Circumstances and a Pause presented by Tania Candiani at Museo Arte Alameda, Mexico City, just received the Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Arts Category of The Prix Ars Electronica.
