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At night, in the Bolivian Uyuni Salt Flat, the stars shine in the sky and on its surface with the same intensity. The horizon is imperceptible, and compass needles go crazy due to the high concentration of lithium that may be found in the largest salt desert in the world.

Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Western Michigan University, Gwen Frostic School of Art, presents An Exercise in Numbness and Other Tales by the Puerto Rican artist Nayda Collazo-Llorens .

The Spanish photographer Isabel Muñoz knew “La Bestia” (“The Beast”) closely and portrayed its entrails. This was the name given by immigrants from Central America – mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – to the freight train which has, for years, transported those who traveled northward through Mexico, trying to reach the border with the United States as stowaways.

Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (IAC) is proud to present O Espaço Ressoante. Os Colorítmos de Alejandro Otero (Resonant Space: The Colorhythms of Alejandro Otero).

The Fundação Bienal do Mercosul announced the appointment of Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy as the chief curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial. Her curatorial team includes Mônica Hoff (Ground Curator), Raimundas Malašauskas (Time Curator), and Bernardo de Souza (Space Curator), as well as four Curatorial Cloud Fellows: Julia Rebouças, Sarah Demeuse, Daniela Pérez, and Dominic Willsdon.

Museo Amparo inaugurated the exhibition Francis Alÿs. Fabiola, presented in the museum's Colonial Art and Nineteenth Century galleries. The exhibition features more than four hundred images of St. Fabiola, acquired over more than a decade by Francis Alÿs, the Belgian artist settled in Mexico.

Absence of Place, 2005, one of Miami artist Xavier Cortada’s best known works, was recently acquired by the Miami Art Museum (MAM) for their permanent collection.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of real socialist states led not only to a geopolitical transformation, but also to a new interest in the visual and material culture of so called “former east countries”.

La lengua de Ernesto is the largest exhibition of Ernesto Neto's works to date.

The exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is the culmination of nearly a decade of collaborative research and scholarship organized by El Museo del Barrio in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Art Stays International Contemporary Arts Festival of Ptuj, Slovenia, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and will be attended by contemporary artists from all over the world.

The of the newly initiated "Curatorial Summer Workshop" is a collaboration of The Royal Institute of Art and Tensta konsthall, initiated and hosted by Maria Lind and Nina Möntmann.

Museum Het Domein proudly presents a double exhibition by Cuban-American artist José Bedia (Havana, Cuba, 1959) and Belgium-based Dutch artist Hans Lemmen (Venlo, the Netherlands 1959).

Espai d'art Contemporani de Castelló, EACC, is presenting the group exhibition In suspension, showcasing recent work by three Latin American artists who examine architecture, urban development and, more specifically, interrupted constructive processes.

The narrative-imaginary vacuum of the present bears the imprint of the systemic monstrosity of modern history. The re-visioning of modernity and the rewriting of its master narratives constitute a trans-disciplinary project of global proportions.

The exhibition “Nicolás París. Experimental Educational Exhibition”, which will be held between August and December, 2012 is a site-specific project in collaboration with the Public Programs Department, which is inaugurating the Espacio Experimental Pedagógico (Educational Experimental Space), a new research platform created by the museum with the aim of establishing a direct relationship between the curatorial exhibitions program and the area of public programs.

As part of the events organized by the Gego Foundation to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Venezuelan-German artist, Sala Mendoza is presenting a retrospective exhibition curated by Josefina Manrique that includes works never exhibited before.

In his book Imaginarios urbanos (Eudeba, 2005), Néstor García Canclini proposes a question: “Who narrates the stories of the city in the chronicles, in films, in songs, and in exhibitions…?”

The Centro Cultural Español, CCE, Miami, presents “La Bestia”, an itinerant exhibition that emerges from a personal project by Isabel Muñoz. It gathers the documentation of the three trips that she has made during three years along the Southern border of Mexico.

Frieze have announced the participating galleries for Frieze Masters, the organization’s first art fair for historical art. Frieze Masters will take place 11–14 October 2012 on Gloucester Green, Regent’s Park, London.

The Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, developed the concept for the Manifesta 9 exhibition ‘The Deep of the Modern’.

This fall, Independent Curators International (ICI) is producing the Curatorial Intensive: “Curating Beyond Exhibition Making”, the first short course to offer training to curators on the concepts and logistics of organizing public events, workshops, and other discursive program formats.

Following on from the third edition of PINTA Art Fair, a new wave of Mexican Art is breaking on to the London art scene.

The 7th Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), organised by the Agrupació de Disseny Industrial del Foment de les Arts Decoratives (ADI/FAD), was held in Eivissa (Ibiza) from 14–16 October 1971.

During the first week after the public opening of dOCUMENTA (13), The Artists’ Congresses: A Congress gathers artists and scholars from the fields of art history, philosophy, and cultural studies to address questions related to the history of the artist’s voice.

The Museum of Latin American Art, MoLAA presents Play with Me (June 16 – September 2, 2012) featuring engaging installations that encourage visitors to “touch the art”. The exhibition explores the interactive potential of contemporary installation art.

Pinta London 2012’s panorama revealed a broad creative horizon not only thanks to the inclusion of Iberian and Latin American art, but also as a result of a special convergence of twentieth and twenty-first century geometric art, including conceptual inquiries of Post-Modernism that extend to the present, as well as other trends of contemporary art.

The launching of the book Mario Carreño: obras selectas (1936-1957 ) at the Theater of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, MNBA, in the course of the opening week of the 11th Havana Biennial, marks the beginning of a rereading of the work of the legendary pioneer of Cuban modernism.

Speaking of the 11th Havana Biennial, 11BH, devoted to Artistic practices and social imaginaries, it is not by chance that the word “bridges”, with its multiple meanings, comes to mind: “A structure providing passage, temporary floating crossings, a connection that provides continuity where an electric circuit has been interrupted, the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses, frequent and continuous communication established between two places in order to facilitate the movement of people and merchandises from one to the other; set of installations that are at the service of this cause at an airport:”

PUMA.Creative in partnership with BRITDOC Foundation announced ten new PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award winners.