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Primary Flight and CIFO Partner to Create Mural
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 MFAH and ICAA will Launch a Historical Digital Archive of Twentieth Century Primary Sources in Latin America
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 Designs “Reflect”
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.
Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America at MOLAA
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 Brazillian Collective Chelpa Ferro at the Aldrich Museum
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 Awarded with the Benesse Prize During the Venice Biennial
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.
James Cuno Named as New President and Director for the J. Paul Getty Trust
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 is Representing Mexico at the 54th Venice Biennial
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.
Clemencia Labín´s Collective Art Project at the 54th Venice Biennial
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.
CIFO Announces its Museum & Curator Network
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´ "Gran Sur" Project at the 54th Venice Biennial
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.
Crisisss. Art and Confrontation in Latin America
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.
Camnitzer:
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.
Blanton Museum
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.
The Silence of the Voice
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).
Venice in Venice, Curated by Jacqueline Miro and Tim Nye
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,
Enrique Ježik at the MUAC in Mexico City
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.
The Spring of Latin American Art in Sotheby’s & Christie’s
"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…"
Leonora Carrington Passing on the Global Press
Important papers from the entire world covered the death of Leonora Carrington, but the recognition that they give –as usual with the great Latin American masters- is restricted.
MOCA Call Artists for Optic Nerve XIII Showcase
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is seeking film and video submissions for the 13th edition of Optic Nerve, the museum's popular film and video showcase for emerging artists.
ArteBA 2011 in its 20th Anniversary
From 19 to May 23 it develops the twentieth edition of ArteBA Contemporary Art Fair, which has been consolidated in this period as one of the most important exhibition platforms in Latin America.
Base-Paint: Exhibition-Auction for Haiti.
The event Base Paint: The Auction at IdeoBox Artspace will open to the public on Wednesday, May 25. This innovative Exhibition-Auction sponsored by Saludarte Foundation, Manos del Sur Foundation, the Step by Step Foundation and Ideobox Artspace.
Spain Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale
The piece L’Inadeguato, Lo Inadecuado, The Inadequate of the artist Dora Garcia will be presented in the Spain Pavilion, commissioned by Katya García-Antón, in the next edition of Venice Biennale.
The Galerie Beyeler is Closing:
In accordance with the testamentary wishes of Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, the Galerie Beyeler at Baumleingasse 9 in Basel is closing. Its holdings will be sold at auction by Christie’s International on 21 and 22 June 2011 in London.
Felipe Zuñiga creates Laboratorio Experimental de Óptica
The haudenschildGarage commissioned visual artist Felipe Zuñiga González to create a program for the students of Guillermo Prieto Elementary School.
MADA: Art, community, and social compromise
Anyone who takes a look at the effervescent art landscape in Miami is confused by the endless number of galleries, the rampant eclecticism, the uneven number of proposals and-more than anything- the lack of a serious systematization that plagues the galleries and the cultural institutions of the city.
Roberto Jacoby at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid
Roberto Jacoby’s (Buenos Aires, 1944) work is characterized by a constant transit from the borderlines of artistic production.
Cuban Visions at the Metropolitan Pavilion
Cuban Visions, one of the largest and more complete exhibitions of contemporary Cuban art to ever show in New York City, opening May 27 at Metropolitan Pavilion as part of city-wide spring celebration ofCuban culture, alongside the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Si Cuba Festival.
[NAME] Publications invites to a workshop with Viking Funeral
[NAME] Publications invites to participate in a free workshop in the space of Artseen in Miami, with Viking Funeral, who is up next in [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series.
Neon Rumbles of War
On April 1st, Y Gallery opened its new space at the Lower East Side with Signs of the Time, a show by Tom Fruin, curated by gallery director, Cecilia Jurado.
El Ranchito /Matadero Madrid - Calling for Residences and Work Spaces for Artists
Matadero Madrid, through its project El Ranchito, is promoting a new open call aimed at facilitating the creation of collaborative networks and fostering artistic production by providing residencies for artists and making work spaces available.
