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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.

As the plane approached Dublin airport, the greenest of fields visible below, it suddenly hit me why the name The Emerald Isle is forever memorialized in Johnny Cash’s overwrought lyrics of Forty Shades of Green.

The 11th Lyon Biennial proposes to visitors a “journey through imagination”. Combining humor and tragedy, poetry, provocation and utopia, the works of 78 international artists from 25 countries, created largely as statements, seek to “put the debate on art and reality on the table”.

At the entrance to the 21c Museum Hotel, in Louisville, Kentucky, guests and passers-by stop at the sight of some weird white suitcases that seemingly appear to be an abandoned luggage. When they notice they are made of concrete, they discover that the sculpture has been placed there to be used as a bench.

Eduardo Costantini frowned; he leaned over his computer screen and began to shake his head slowly in a gesture of disbelief. His displeasure was so evident that even María Bonta de la Pezuela, Sotheby’s director for Latin America, made a brief pause in her lecture.

In 1970, Emilio Hernández Saavedra –a member of a group of artists who, in the mid- 1960s, opted with urgency for a critical practice which might restate the aesthetic conservatism of the local scene.

For the eighth consecutive year, CIFO is celebrating its exhibition devoted to the acclaimed Cifo Grants and Commissions Program at the Cifo Art Space.

The curatorial statement of Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011 specifies the biennial’s intention to “explore the rich relationship between art and politics, focusing on works that are both formally innovative and politically outspoken, honest, controversial and critical.”

The Latin American Art sale from Sotheby’s brought the overall sale total to $20,221,938, over the $19.1 million low estimate, with 66% of lots sold and 77.8% sold by value.

The sixth International Arte Laguna Prize, dedicated to visual artists from all over the world, postpones the deadline for entries until November 30, by mail, and December 6, for on-line applications.

One of the most interesting aspects of the fifth edition of Pinta New York was the way in which different gallerists chose to show some works by renowned artists which are not their best known pieces but which, however, have a particular significance, as well as to include recent series that change the direction of their investigations.

Paul Morris, Co-Founder of The Armory Show, announced today the appointment of Noah Horowitz, Ph.D., as the art fair’s Managing Director. Horowitz joins The Armory Show leadership team — including Morris and Managing Directors Michael Hall and Deborah Harris — effective today.

The opening of the fifth edition of Pinta New York was market by two significant lines from the very nature of Latin American art: depth and heterogeneity.

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.