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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.

The Fund of Park Avenue Project, in conjunction with The Park Avenue Malls and the City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation, chose Venezuelan sculptor Rafael Barrios to showcase his monumental work on the legendary Park Avenue.

Diego Rivera’s relationship with New York is longstanding. As the most internationally renowned Mexican muralist of his time, MOMA commissioned Rivera in 1931 to work in the museum and create a series of portable fresco murals for a retrospective exhibition.

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting Maria Thereza Negreiros. Offerings until April 1, 2012.

Tate announced the appointment of Colombian curator José Roca (b.1962) as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art.

The exhibition The Return of the Tamagni Collection: To the Stars Through Difficult Paths, reenacts the history of Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.

Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970, the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to Jesús Soto to be held at a New York museum in more than 35 years, will be on view at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery from January 10 through March 31, 2012.

"The introduction of Colombian curator Inti Guerrero in TEOR/éTica heralds a new perspective for the institution, giving continuation to the legacy of founder Virginia Perez-Ratton.

AND AND AND is an artist run initiative, which will use the time between now and dOCUMENTA (13) in June 2012 to consider with individuals and groups across the world the role art and culture can play today and the constituent publics or communities which could be addressed.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums.

Mario García-Torres inquires into the negation relationship between documentary photography and an obscure military episode in the December issue of Frieze Magazine.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico, is presenting until January 29, 2012, Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), will launch on January 2012, the first phase of the digital archive Documents of 20th-Century Latin America and Latino Art, with some 10,000 primary-source materials, culled by hundreds of researchers based in 16 cities in the United States and throughout Latin America.

The Howard and Patricia Farber Foundation, formerly Fundación Cuba Avant-Garde, announced the recipients in its second round of funding. Established in 2010, the Foundation fosters appreciation for Cuban culture worldwide.

One of the most surprising sections in Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, and one in which Latin American art played an unprecedented leading role was Art Positions. Featured on this occasion in the fair premises, it gathered together 16 young galleries presenting individual projects by emerging artists from nine countries, among them Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Colombia.

Serpentine Gallery, London, inaugurated a solo show by Lygia Pape (1927–2004), organized jointly by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Projeto Lygia Pape and the gallery.

Kreemart, an initiative that supports collective artistic projects, is presenting at CIFO Digestible NEWS by Miralda / Food Cultura. The observers are invited to participate in this collective work by making their own edible newspaper.

Rather than doing a traditional thematic exhibition or creating a dialogue between the individual artists, this year's overall pattern could be interpreted as a large puzzle that transcends preconceived notions of authorship.

At Fernando de Szyszlo´s 86 years (born in Lima, Perú, 192) Durban Segnini Gallery has joined in the spirit of the homage organised by the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), with a retrospective celebration that brought together more than hundred works.

The eighth edition of the Mercosur Biennial situates art in a privileged place; it discovers through the works of 105 artists from 31 countries a close relationship with the political events of our time without losing sight of the poetic.

Armando Morales (Nicaragua 1927 - Miami 2011), one of the pioneering masters of dialogue with the modernist avant-garde on the continent and who also built his language-as modern and contemporary, on the vast expanse of the landscape of central and South America, with its vast jungles and wild places.