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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.

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.