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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.

For Rent: Consuelo Castañeda, is the first of three exhibitions devoted to mid-career artists that will be presented annually from 2011 to 2013.

Primary Flight (PF) is proud to partnership with the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) to create a block-sized mural. A (Latin American) Miami-based artist at the non-profit organization’s CIFO Art Space (1018 North Miami Avenue, Miami) will create the mural.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), have devoted ten years and $50 million to initiatives in 20th-century Latin American and Latino art.

Ivan Toth Depeña’s light-based installation “Reflect” will be permanently mounted in the Stephen Clark Government Center Lobby in Miami in late August 2011.

Showcasing single-channel works by established and emerging artists, the videos in the exhibition illustrate a simultaneous ongoing attempt to build some sense of the present and the future. Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, co-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Idurre Alonso from MOLAA.

The Aldrich presents an interdisciplinary performance by Chelpa Ferro, a Brazilian collective comprised of renowned visual artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, and Sergio Mekler. For these artists, any object can simultaneously be an instrument and an artwork.

Adrian Villar Rojas presented The Murderer of Your Heritage, his last installation specially created for the 54th Venice Biennial, and won the 9th Benesse Prize.

The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that James Cuno, has been named president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Melanie Smith (Poole, England, 1965) is representing Mexico, where she lives and works since 1989, at the 54th Venice Biennial with her show Red Square Impossible Pink.

The New York Times refers to Clemencia Labin’s work in the following terms: “The Venezuelan pavilion was invigorated by actual performances by Clemencia Labin and two films about her colourful, creative and inclusive arts festival founded in 2000.

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to announce the redesign of the www.cifo.orgwebsite. The new website includes features and functions that allow CIFO to fulfill its mission of promoting art from Latin America on a global scale.

Fernando Prats installed his Project “Gran Sur” (Great South) in the Arsenals of the ancient city, the most visited place during the 54th Biennial di Venezia (Venice Biennial) that will be extended until November 27th, 2011.

I still do not know of a postmodern poverty. Independently of globalization and decentralization, poverty continues to be the same thing, Gerardo Mosquera remarks at the end of his introduction for the book Beyond the Fantastic.

In Luis Camnitzer’s view, suspiciousness – that way of suspecting or mistrusting − configures a method of creation that takes the tools of conceptual art to a borderline, where it inquires into the contemporary art system as a whole and into its methods to project itself in relation to the economic and institutional structures that control it.

Asource of pure aesthetic enjoyment, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the Rojas Cultural Center of the 1990s leaves the visitor with a feeling of spiritual lightness.

Gervasio Sánchez’s (Córdoba, 1959) exhibition, Desaparecidos, curated by Sandra Balsells and based on an original project by Rafael Doctor Roncero, has been simultaneously hosted by the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), la Casa Encendida, Madrid., and the MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León).

Foundation 2021 has inaugurated Venice in Venice, an ambitious exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia, in celebration of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,

The exhibition Enrique Ježik: Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal, at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC, in Mexico City, displays
for the very first time an extensive review of the works and projects of an artist that has played a key role in the narrative of Mexican contemporary art.

"Throughout the evening sale we saw results that were consistent with the estimates we set, with strong prices achieved for Rufino Tamayo, Fernando Botero, Wifredo Lam, Joaquín Torres-García and many others…"