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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.

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’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.

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.

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.

"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 (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".

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, 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).

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.

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.

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.

“ 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.'

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.