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Christie’s and Sotheby’s May auction sales in New York exceeded market expectations, confirming the growing importance of the region’s modern artistic production and setting new records.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) announced the opening on April 28, 2012, of the third edition of the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, El Panal/The Hive, which includes the participation of over 150 local and foreign artists.

" Plataforma Sonora. Treinta relojes de cuerda” by the artist Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974) will be displayed at the central courtyard of the hotel Condesa DF. The public intervention was launched during Zona Maco 2012.

Retaining the concept introduced by Adriano Pedrosa of a south that comprises the entire hemisphere and of practices that involve forms of resistance, the curator of Zona Maco Sur 2012, Patrick Charpenel, broke the linearity in the distribution and reformed the architecture of the area jointly with Luis Aldrete, who adapted the design of the spaces to the works.

The itinerant exhibition “Oscar Muñoz/Protografías”, which ended in March at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia, and will later travel to the Lima Art Museum (Mali), Lima, Peru; to the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; to the Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia, originated at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, and was curated by José Roca and María Wills (adjunct curator).

On May 22 and 23, Christie's Latin American sale will offer an exceptional selection of works by modern and contemporary masters hailing from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and many other regions throughout the Americas.

Tiempo de sospecha: un ejercicio sobre comunicación mediática, sistemas de conocimiento e información (Time of Suspicion: An exercise in Media Communication, Knowledge and Information Systems) at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City, is an exhibition that navigates how vast networks of information are disseminated through mass media—through the perspective of 35 contemporary artists from Mexico.

One of the most important events concerning Latin American art took place in Houston at the end of January, and it may have gone unnoticed to many people.

No Heroics, Please is the title of a posthumous compilation of short stories written by the American novelist and poet Raymond Carver during his youth, who understood that the value of the writing is within the daily happenings.

For the first time the Conversations Program for Zona Maco. Mexico Arte Contemporáneo 2012 has been organized by Fundación Jumex.

Milagros de la Torre examines notions related to memory, identity, violence, pain and trauma with around forty sober photographs with great objectual qualities in her first monographic in New York.

Matadero Madrid presents the latest artwork from one Spain´s most internationally recognized artist: Fernando Sánchez Castillo Síndrome de Guernica (Guernica Syndrome) is the title of an sculpture created from the Azor, the leisure boat used by the former Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco, and the setting for various historic events such as the “Azor conversations” held between Don Juan de Borbón and Franco himself.

Museo de Arte de Ponce will present a new exhibition initiative called Arte en respuesta / Art in Response. This annual program invites two contemporary artists each year to produce and exhibit new work that engages in a dialogue with Museo de Arte de Ponce’s world renowned European art collection.

Over 120 pairs of tables placed one on top of the other and separated by a block of earth, from which sprout slim blades of grass: this is Plegaria Muda, the latest project by Doris Salcedo.

Centro Abierto. Site-specific Interventions in Downtown Lima is a public art exhibition that will take place June 8–17, 2012. In recent years a number of initiatives have been undertaken to renovate downtown Lima to a growing metropolis of over 8 million inhabitants.

To die in the places one loves is, in a certain way, to attend that inescapable appointment for which one is perhaps never ready. It was this which rendered so surprising the demise of José Costa Peuser, publisher of Arte al Día México magazine, as a result of an acute heart attack, in the historic downtown area of his beloved Oaxaca, a city that is inseparable from the night of the indigenous soul.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents The War We Have Not Seen, a moving and dramatic exhibition about the turmoil and war that has plagued Colombia for decades. The project was the idea of Juan Manuel Echavarría in an attempt to alter the cultural fabric that has "normalized" the violence in Colombia.

The selection of 23 artist carried out by the curators Cauê Alves, Sonia Becce, Patrick Charpenel, Alexia Dumani, Manuela Moscoso and José Ignacio Roca for the second edition of “Solo Projects: Focus Latin America” may function as an orientation map of artistic practices in the south of the American continent.

On the 20 April 2012 Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) will inaugurate the Public Programme at its new permanent home, The Whisky Bond by premiering a major new body of work by Teresa Margolles (b. 1963 Culiacán, Mexico) that has been created during a 5-month Production Residency, when she lived and worked in Glasgow.

Iberê Camargo Foundation presents a great exhibition on Leonilson. From a total of 372 works, 126 are new in this, which is the second mounting the exhibition held in São Paulo and the largest ever held with the work of this artist who is seminal for the Brazilian art.

The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art) MUAC, is presenting Extranjerías, a group show curated by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta originating in a process of research on the experience of being a foreigner, which comprises not only the crossing of geographic boundaries but also the leaps in perception created by the new communications technologies.

The exhibit Contemporary Uruguayan Artists will open March 5 in the Cultural Center Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the IDB’s Board of Governors in Uruguay’s capital of Montevideo.

From March 2 to May 5 the Fondazione VOLUME! unveils Nacht und Nebel by Ivàn Navarro curated by Antonio Arévalo. The exhibition, through an intervention of installation art , wants to recall the atmosphere of the city of Rome between September 1943 and June 1944.

The Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut, the oldest and one of the most important university art museums in America, is in the final phase of a renovation and expansion that will transform the visitor experience of both the museum and its esteemed collections.

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation welcomes Jesús Fuenmayor as CIFO's new Director and Curator. Fuenmayor has been the Director, since 2005, of Periférico Caracas, a contemporary art space in Venezuela, where he organized more than 30 exhibitions.

“De donde no se vuelve” (“From where there is no return”) is the show with which the Centro Cultural Español is inaugurating its activities in its new Miami venue. The exhibition is a small touring selection based on the great retrospective (or introspective, as García Alix himself suggests) organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2008 as a tribute to the trajectory of the photographer, writer and video artist, recipient of the Spanish National Photography Award, Alberto García Alix (León, 1956).

In the framework of the annual mobilization in the Miami art world resulting from the celebration of the Art Basel Miami Beach international art fair, the exhibition “Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices.

Luis F. Benedit (Buenos Aires, 1937-2011) was surprised by death while he was preparing the exhibition “Luis Benedit. Designer,” which was recently inaugurated in the framework of YPF Foundation’s “Art in the Tower” program.

The International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid 2012, which is set to take place from 15-19 February will gather together 158 galleries from more than 30 countries in its General Program, as well as a further 58 galleries selected for its Curated Programs.

Under the title The Future: The Long Count Begins Again, the 10th International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, SITAC X, stakes a claim to the uncharted territory of the future by bringing together artists, theorists, writers, practitioners of the imagination and other adventurers who frequent the future to come together for three days of conversation, images, debate, proposals, premonitions and prophecies in February 2012.