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The exhibition “Walking in Someone Else’s shoes (Identities in Transit)” at Aluna Art Foundation in Miami, gathers together a group of contemporary works that revolve around the transhumance as a method, and that reflect the restless landscape of individuals and communities who walk in turbulent times.

Teresa Margolles (Culiacan, Mexico, 1963) focuses on the Mexican social and political context, and how these determine ourselves.

With the firm belief that art can represent freedom of thought without boundaries and promotes self-determination and the free circulation of culture and ideas, the Prize is dedicated to those who harbor the right will to pursue their research beyond the hardship determined by political, social or geographical conditions.

The Argentinian artist who lives in Mexico City realized the intervention Ocupación, in response to the program Fuera de sala, which invites young contemporary artists to intervene in the space of the reading room adjacent to the Documentation Center in Casa Vecina in Mexico City.

The inaugural exhibition of this space opened by curator José Roca takes its title from a phrase by B.F. Skinner –“No life form is inevitable”- re-updating the notion of self-determination and the legacy of the Botanical Expedition that, in the 18th century, linked together the recognition of natural riches and the dream of political autonomy.

The Miami Art Museum reopened in downtown Miami’s Museum Park as the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), join forces on the exhibition Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, featuring contemporary works by artists from across Latin America.

Renowned Cuban artist Manuel Mendive Hoyo brings his exhibition, Things that Cannot be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive and a unique performance procession, “Water (Homage to the Waters)”, to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU.

Jumex Foundation/Collection, established by Eugenio López, opened its new Jumex Museum in Mexico City.

“Cuban Art and Identity: 1900-1950 ” surveys painting from the first fifty years of the Republic favoring an iconographic over a stylistic approach.

The Bronx Museum of Arts is Presenting “Paulo Bruscky—Art is Our Last Hope”, the first solo exhibition of work the Brazilian artist, who has played a critical role in bringing major artistic movements—including Fluxus, mail art, and performance art—to Brazil from the time he began working in Recife in the aftermath of the military coup of 1964.

María Inés Rodríguez Fernández has been appointed to the position of director of CAPC contemporary art museum of Bordeaux by a jury presided by Mayor Alain Juppé, and composed of international experts in contemporary art and officials from the French ministry of culture and of the City of Bordeaux.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Obsession, the first in-depth survey of the work of one of the most original and inventive artists of the postwar period to be presented in Latin America, was organized by Malba – Fundación Costantini.

Exhibitions offering historical and contemporary perspectives on the art and artists of Cuba open at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. Featured will be “Humberto Castro’s Tracing Antilles”; “Eternal Cuba: The Darlene M. & Jorge M. Pérez Collection at FIU”; and “From Africa to the Americas”.

Compelling and refined conceptual works by the Mexican artist Gonzalo Lebrija offer a perspective on our modern age, critical of a society that no longer believes in Myths, Gods or Monsters and yet remains fearful, isolated and restless.

Ideobox Artspace and Saludarte Foundation are pleased to announce the International Seminar LATIN OFF LATIN [Collecting Latin American Art Outside Latin America] .

Brazilian artist Waltercio Caldas challenges not only the way we look at his objects in the moment but also our perspectives on art more generally.

The Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) presents the exhibition Fallout by Puerto Rican artist Gamaliel Rodríguez until December 15, 2013 at the R.J. Reynolds Gallery.

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.