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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.

21c Museum, created by collector Steve Wilson as an extensional space of display for his private collection of XXI century art, is presenting the exhibition Cuba Now until January 8th.

Tania Candiani, Milagros de la Torre and Matías Duville, visual artists were winners of the "Latin American and Caribbean Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, 2011."

In 2011, the fourth Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture honors the Argentinean artist Fabián Marcaccio. The award ceremony will be held on September 10, 2011, at the Berlin Academy of Arts at Pariser Platz.

Home to twelve museums, including world-class institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Menil Collection, Houston’s vibrant art scene is primed for the inaugural Houston Fine Art Fair, Sept. 15 – 18, 2011.

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce its forthcoming exhibition, Two Different Tomorrows, a major new sculptural installation by Leandro Erlich. The title of the exhibition grew from a conversation with the gallery in which the Argentine-born Erlich, while traveling in Asia, became confused about the “tomorrow” in his time zone and the “tomorrow” in the gallery’s time zone.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days, a large-scale environmental and participatory sound installation that will be on view in MoMA’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, from August 24 to November 14, 2011.

The Malba - Fundación Costantini Museum, will celebrate on September 2011, its first decade of operation. During this time has carried out the mission of the “Eduardo F. Costantini Foundation” which started in September 2001 as a not for profit private institution, to collect, preserve, research and promote Latin American art produced throughout the 20th century until today.

Magdalena Fernández's video installation, 2iPM009, brings Geometric Abstraction to a new level of expression. During the past decade the Venezuelan-born artist (1964) has developed a body of kinetic sculptures and videos, the latter incorporates sound and movement of lines and colors.

Arocena Museum of Coahuila, Mexico, is introducing Double Exposure / Doble Exposición, an exhibition curated by Emma Cecilia García Krinsky from the FEMSA Collection.

The Kurt F. Gödel Bibliothek, the latest project of the renowned Mexican emergent artist Emilio Chapela, consists of more than 2,000 books made of wood forming a library that won't be written and can't be read. The Bibliothek will be made entirely at Objeklabor in the heart of Kreuzberg in Berlin.

“1999, writes Luis A. Orozco, curator of MUCA Roma, is the year they began their activities these two spaces dedicated to the dissemination and exhibition of young art produced in different contexts, different in their origins, but similar in that they are committed to pilot projects and to some extent peripherals.

El Museo del Barrio announced the appointment of Margarita Aguilar as its new director, beginning September 12, 2011. Aguilar, who served in the curatorial department at El Museo from 1998 to 2006, is currently Vice President and Senior Specialist in Latin American art at Christie’s.

Haptic Eye is a project featuring performances by London-based sound artists Solina Hi-Fi, John Chantler, The Bad Producer, The Runs, KAYAKA, Hands, Tower, Doomed, Amaurote, Ariel Karsh and Andrew Davinson.

dOCUMENTA (13) and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have created a Curatorial Fellowship that will offer curators and scholars from Latin America the opportunity to work on the development of dOCUMENTA (13), an exhibition that will take place in the summer of 2012 in Kassel, Germany.

On August 4, 2011 will open at the Contemporary Art Hall of the National Gallery of Puerto Rico, at the Puerto Rico Culture Institute, the exhibition Correcciones Políticas/Political Correctness, first solo show by artist Osvaldo Budet after completing his Masters in Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008.

The 12th Istanbul Biennial will explore the relationship between art and politics, focusing on works that are both formally innovative and politically outspoken. The work of the Cuban-American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996) is a clear example of this kind of artistic practice, and a primary inspiration for the biennial.

This fall, Creative Time will present "Living as Form", an international exhibition exploring over twenty years of socially engaged cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.

Miami Art Museum is presenting the first mid-career survey of the work of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) focusing on over ten years of innovative practice.

Lima Photo 2011, the International Fair of Art Galleries specialized in photography, will be held for the second consecutive year at Centro de la Imagen, in Lima, Peru from 10 to August 14, 2011.

After its renovation with the 30th edition, held last February, ARCOmadrid launches a new call for their “Solo Projects: Focus Latinoamérica” programme, in its second edition, that will be presented in the next exhibition, from 15 to 19 February 2012.