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Sotheby’s fall sale of Latin American Art in New York on 16 and 17 November 2011 will showcase a range of Latin American painting and sculpture from the continents’ most important artists including exceptional works from important collections that are fresh to the market.

Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its Latin American Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 33 lots with a low estimate of $5,935,000 and a high estimate of $8,205,000.

Christie’s New York announces details of its major fall Latin American Sale on November 15, and November 16.

The feeling of uprootedness and of not belonging is one of the most problematic experiences émigrés must confront in the perennial ordeal that the loss of the place of birth and the adaptation to the country that takes them in entails.

An international group of scholars, curators, museum directors and artists are discussing new approaches to the study and presentation of Latin American art in the 21st century.

The exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art reunites, for the first time in 80 years, five “portable murals,” freestanding frescoes with bold images addressing the Mexican Revolution and Depression-era New York that Rivera created at the Museum for his 1931–32 MoMA exhibition.

This year PINTA, the Latin American fair of modern and contemporary art will have a brand new look when it opens its doors in New York from November 10th to the 13th. Its new location at 7 West 34th Street at 5th Avenue will accommodate fifty galleries and projects from the United States, Latin America and Europe.

The National Council for Culture and the Arts, the National Institute of Fine Arts and the Carrillo Gil Art Museum invite to the exhibition Shattered Glass. Reinterpreting the Collection of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, a fresh and renewed approach to the MACG Collection, through the notion of violence as the linchpin of research and content.

Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, is presenting Ernesto Neto's exhibition, O Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen (Bug Suspended in the Landscape), curated by Jessica Morgan, contemporary art curator at Tate Modern. A complete catalogue will release in December 2011.

In recent years, Miami has become a market with an increased circulation of Latin American art. This has been the result of a number of favorable circumstances, among them...

The Incongruous Image proposes an improbable dialogue. This unusual exhibition features the work of Liliana Porter (B.1941, Buenos Aries, lives and works in New York) in relation to Marcel Broodthaers’s (1924, Brussels - 1976, Cologne). The show revisits the work produced by Liliana Porter from 1970 to the present and a selection of works by Marcel Broodthaers from the 1970s, exploring how the artists each combine visual elements which are apparently incompatible.

The Arts and Philosophy department at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus is presenting a lecture by visual artist Esteban Blanco as part of its Wolfson Focus on the Humanities series on Thursday, Oct. 20.

Modify, as needed is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art's Knight Exhibition Series. It features works by Latino American emergent artist such as Adriana Lara, Natalia Ibáñez Lario, Jose Carlos Martinat, Amilcar Packer, and Nicolás París, and their peers, Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, Nina Beier, Karl Holmqvist, Nick Relph, and Anders Smebye.

Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma presents a selection of important works of Cuban artists' collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TB A21) Collection, founded by Francesca von Habsburg, daughter of Baron HH Thyssen-Bornemisza.

The Miami Art Museum is presenting the United States debut of Enrique Martínez Celaya’s Schneebett, a major installation inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven’s convalescence and death in Vienna, Austria in 1827, originally created for the Berliner Philharmonie.

The Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca (MACO) exhibits Ruido Blanco (White Noise), by the Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora (Colima, Mexico 1968), an exhibition curated by Kerstin Erdmann and co-organized by OMR Gallery, which includes more than 60 works from the last five years of production, in media ranging from drawing to sculpture.

The third edition of the Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan: Latinoamérica y el Caribe, El Panal/The Hive (Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: El Panal/The Hive) is set to open in April 2012, at the most emblematic buildings of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in Old San Juan: the National Gallery, Casablanca, and the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española.

In recognition of Adriana Varejão's contributions towards the promotion of Brazilian arts and culture on national and international levels, the artist has been selected by the President of Brazil as the recipient of the 2011 Cultural Merit Order award.

The Chilean artist Catalina Parra and the Argentinean artist Leandro Katz unite their autonomous proposals at the D21 Gallery, in Chile, where they remained until October 8.

Modern Art Oxford is presenting Autoconstrucción: The Optimistic Failure of a Simultaneous Promise, an exhibition of new work by Abraham Cruzvillegas.

Stalinism, associated with the darkest years of Soviet rule, which no doubt was, is a well-known historical period in its social, political, economic and even cultural.

Antonio Manuel: I Want to Act, Not Represent! at the Americas Society, is the first solo exhibition in the United States of Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel (b. 1947, Portugal).

President Barack Obama has appointed Teresita Fernández, a MacArthur Award winning visual artist, to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a federal panel that advises the President, Congress and governmental agencies on national matters of design and aesthetics.

A move to the Estación Mapocho, the stringency in the selection of galleries, the large turnout of visitors and the wide range of international galleries are some of the attractions that made this the most successful edition in the history of the foundation.

The University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, MUAC, held today, the conference "The image of war and the war of images", which closes the cycle "Machine vision", organized around the exhibition “Enrique Jezik: obstruct, destroy, conceal”.

Titled as a verse from "Easter", a poem by William Butler Yeats, A Terrible Beauty Is Born. The 11th Biennial of Lyon, that historically has been an author event, opened on September 15, showing the different ways to confront curatorial proposal of Argentinean Victoria Noorthoorn.

The Mercosur Biennial opened its eighth edition last week with Ensayos de Geopoéticas (Essays in Geopoetics), dedicated to explore from the unique perspective of art, political and territorial issues which bring into play concepts such as nation, state, identity, maps and borders.

100 Notizen – 100 Gedanken / 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts is launched with a lecture and a presentation at Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Archaeological Museum. Chus Martínez, Head of Department, Member of Core Agent Group for dOCUMENTA (13), will introduce the series 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts.

The Zabludowicz Collection announces the second Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open, a major opportunity for curators to work with a contemporary art collection of international repute.

The Encuentro Internacional de Medellin (MDE) is an ongoing project conceived and conducted by the Museo de Antioquia. The aim of the event is to make this city a center with permanent presence on the international art scene by promoting the production, dissemination and appropriation of contemporary art practices.