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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).

After Christie’s two-day sales of Latin American Art, which achieved $17.9 million, Christie’s and the Americas Society are pleased to announce The Americas Society Visual Arts Endowment Benefit Auction in May 2013.

The Laboratorio de Arte Alameda presents Cinco variaciones de circunstancias fónicas y una pausa (Five Variations on Phonic Circumstances and a Pause), an exhibition by Mexican artist Tania Candiani.

The exhibition Vista at the University of Maryland University College, UMUC, explores different notions of “cultural landscapes” as distinct geographical areas representing the combined work of nature and of human kind.

Expanding its horizons through diverse strategies, Pinta 2012 will feature an entire section of alternative art spaces that inspire artistic residences in Central America; with the support of renowned galleries, it will continue showing the individual “Art Projects” selected by Brazilian curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and it will present NY-based Argentinean Liliana Porter as guest artist.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum will inaugurate the exhibition Iván Navarro: Fluorescent Light Sculptures curated by Julia Herzberg.

Phillips de Pury & Company present highlights from its Latin America Contemporary and Modern Art auction including pieces of the pioneer Joaquín Torres García, and the contemporary Belgian living in Mexico Francis Alÿs, among other masters such as The Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto... read more

The exhibition “Caribbean Crossroads of the World” is divided across the walls and floors of three of New York’s most investigative museums—the Studio Museum of Harlem, The Queens Museum of Art and El Museo del Barrio.

As a preview of the exhibition “Episodios críticos”, (Critical Episodes), (1957-2011). MACBA Collection, which will open on November 7, the Museum presents two new episodes of the MACBA Collection.

The biennial project OiR —Other Ideas for Rio—, which began this September and ends with the 2016 Olympics, promotes original interventions by renowned artists in picture-postcard locations around the city.

CIFO (The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation) announces the final days of the exhibition “ Not me: Subject to Change” that will last until November 4, showing artworks commissioned to the winners of its Grants & Commission Program, a platform to present commissioned works and projects for local and international audiences in Downtown Miami.

Chus Martínez, the head of Documenta 13′s department for artistic direction, has been selected as chief curator of El Museo del Barrio. She is expected to join El Museo before year's end.

The death of Edgar Negret (Colombia, 1920-2012) brings to the forefront the legacy of one of the great pioneers of geometric abstraction in Colombia.