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As part of the National Tributes program, the National Museum - Ministry of Culture presents the temporary exhibition Leo Matiz, Mirando al infinito (Leo Matiz, Gazing at the Infinite).

Havana: Enigma Of The Ruins , curated by Dennys Matos, art critic and independent curator, consists of 12 photographic works intervened with mixed media such as charcoal, watercolor, acrylic and other. In addition to these works, the exhibition includes a video art titled Enigma Havana.

“Since our move in 2012 into a new 5,000 square foot exhibition space in the heart of the Design District, we now have more than twice as much space to truly focus on better meeting our mission to serve artists and the community,” said Chana Sheldon, executive director of Locust Projects.

Museo de Arte de Ponce inaugurated the installation of contemporary art titled Art in Response: Jorge Díaz Torres, open until May 27, 2013. This exhibition reflects the museum’s institutional goals of catering to a wide range of interests and enabling audiences to have a common space to meet, discover new horizons, and begin new dialogues.

The Coordination of Cultural Diffusion of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, through its General Direction of Visual Arts, announced that Cuauhtemoc Medina, critic, art curator, and investigator of the Institute of Aesthetic Investigation of the academic institution, will assume the position of chief curator of the Contemporary Art University Museum (MUAC), replacing María Inés Rodríguez.

In the spirit of the hemispheric exchange taking place at the forty-third regular session of the OAS General Assem­bly in Antigua, Guatemala, from June 4 to 6, 2013, the OAS’ AM A | Art Museum of the Americas presents “ Un Lugar sin Reposo | A Place with no Rest,” an exhibition of artwork from one of the host country’s finest artists, photographer Luis González Palma.

As part of the celebration for its more than 20 years of continuous support to contemporary art, the Monterrey FEMSA Biennial is inaugurating a major exhibition on Thursday, March 21 at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Ancient School of San Ildefonso).

For his first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, in the Kunstmuseum Luzern (Museum of Art of Lucerne), Jorge Macchi (b. 1963) is developing spatial installations in situ. This allows the Argentinean artist to respond sensitively to the existing exhibition architecture.

The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), will inaugurate on March 21st, the first retrospective of the conceptual and performance art collective ASCO.

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) are pleased to announce an open call for curators: The 2013 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.

After a painstaking and monumental restoration and renovation project, the Casa Daros building, dating back to 1866 and located in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, will be inaugurated on March 23, 2013.

The Orange County Museum of Art's, OCMA, announced the names of the 32 artists whose work will appear in the 2013 California-Pacific Triennial.

Octavio Zaya was appointed curator of the Spanish Pavilion by the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) in October 2012. He has selected the artist Lara Almarcegui to represent Spain at the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale.

The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University is pleased to announce its second open call to participate in the second edition of Region Ø - The Latino Video Art Festival of New York, to be held on May 16-18, 2013 in New York City, United States.

Phoenix Art Museum will present Order, Chaos, and the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, beginning February 6, 2013.

Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D, consulting and contributing editor for ARTE AL DIA International magazine, has received a 2012-2013 Fulbright scholar grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is presenting “Form’s Transgressions: The Drawings of Agustín Fernández”, curated by Ricardo Pau-Llosa.

The Museum of Latin American Art, MoLAA, announces the opening of four new exhibitions that will take place in the first quarter of 2013.

The Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (FC/CPPC) announces its first major exhibition in Europe, La invención concreta: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, from January 23rd through September 16th 2013.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (MAC) announced the interdisciplinary project of the emerging artist Lorna Otero, “Taller Vivo: Fotos de familia” (Live Workshop: Family Portaits), through which she will present an analysis of the conventions that construct the structure of family portraits, as well as their historical evolutions and the tradition of their presence in society.

Malba – Fundación Constantini presents Oscar Muñoz: Protografías, the artist’s first retrospective survey. With work spanning more than forty years, Muñoz (b. Colombia, 1951) is one of the most relevant figures in contemporary art in Colombia.

“The Gaze in the Other: Connections/ Confrontations” is an anthological Collective exhibition by a wide variety of photographers, all of whom have been awarded the Spanish National Photography Prize.

The recently expanded and renovated Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, is presenting Olinka o Dónde el movimiento es creado (Olinka or Where Movement Is Created), a group exhibition curated by Adam Szymzcyk, guest curator.

“Not Me”: Subject to Change, the group show featuring the work of the winners of the CIFO 2012 Grants and Commissions Program − Eduardo Abaroa (Mexico), Francisca Aninat (Chile), Julieta Aranda (Mexico), Tamar Guimarães (Brazil), Glexis Novoa (Cuba), Daniela Ortiz (Peru), Marta María Pérez Bravo (Cuba), and Marisa Rubio (Argentina) − takes its title from a psychoanalytic concept referred to the child’s first understanding that allows him/her to distinguish between his/her body and the world.

A pioneer of optical or Op art in the 1960s, a historical figure in Kinetic art and the epitome of an anti-conformist artist, Julio Le Parc defined the principles that would guide his approach very early on: a certain critical analysis of the artist’s situation and social role, the endeavor to go beyond its contradictions through commitment and continual experimentation.

The recently created Center of Research “La Falta”, united to the Universidad de la Laguna, Canarias, inaugurated together with Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, TEA, the Lab of Discussions and Meetings for the Cultural Analysis, with the title “Los Primeros Días” (The First Days).

Teresa Margolles has been named the winner of the Artes Mundi 5 prize, from a list of seven artists. The 2012 shortlisted artists are Tania Bruguera, Miriam Bäckström, Phil Collins, Sheela Gowda, Teresa Margolles, Darius Mikšys and Apolonija Šušteršič. Awarded by a panel of international curators and directors, the announcement was made at National Museum Cardiff. With a first prize of 40,000 GBP, Artes Mundi is the largest cash prize awarded for the arts in the UK and one of the most significant in the world.

The chic enclave of Bal Harbour, Florida is currently showcasing “Pax Americana,” the work of artist George Sanchez-Calderon, as part of the destination's exciting new public art program "Unscripted."

Since the time when Paulo Herkenhoff conceived the curatorial design for the 24th edition, which revolved around anthropofagia (cannibalism) − that foundational concept of Brazilian culture − the historical dimension had not irrupted again in Sao Paulo as it did on this occasion.

Hotbed Miami 2012, the annual exhibition of Wet Heat Project that has highlighted the works of a dozen artists from New World School of the Arts during Art Basel Miami Beach, has expanded its reach this year through the support of NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance).