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The MUSAC collection in Guadalajara
The MUSAC collection presents in the Instituto Cultural Cabañas of the city, the exhibition La fuerza de la palabra (The Power of Words), with a selection of works from its permanent collection, that will be exhibited until January 23th, 2011.
Ultra es Low: Artists from the Ultravioleta Project in Guatemala, at Des Pacio, Costa Rica
Ultra Es Low is an exhibition that brings the works from Proyectos Ultravioleta. The main idea was to initially present ; the work of the artists that abandoned stereotypes of violence and the characteristics of Guatemalan art, and instead chose to discourse aesthetics with a public spirit.
Daros Latinoamerica Announces its Upcoming Exhibitions
Since the beginning of the year 2000, Daros Latinoamerica has been devoted to building a collection of Contemporary art from Latino America.
Denise Rene Gallery Celebrates Half a Century of Cruz-Diez´s Creation in Paris
2010 is a milestone year for Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923).
Reflected Visions of Argentina in Focus
The exhibition Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept— Cristian Segura/Sergio Vega, curated by Alma Ruiz at the Art Museum of the Americas reveals the critical focus in the production of these two Argentine artist.
The First Triennial of the Caribbean
The Caribbean Biennial, held since 1992 in the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, was discontinued. The labeling of the event as a “biennial” had lost its meaning, and it was decided to designate it instead as “First International Triennial of the Caribbean”.
29th São Paulo Biennial
In the words of Brazilian artist Nuno Ramos, the 29th São Paulo Biennial apparently marks the “end of the curatorial narcissism” that characterized recent editions, in particular the past edition, universally known as “The Void.”
Political Visions from Gómez Narro and Artemio in PINTA New York
In the fourth edition of the Latin American and Contemporary Art Fair in New York, PINTA, added to the space a resurgence of a political art that is not ideological, but has an incisive vision of reality.
Fernando Prats will represent Chile at the 54 Venetian Biennial 2011
The Venetian Biennial will count with an internationally renowned Chilean representative once again. In it’s 54 version, the oldest and most important artistic of the planet will have Fernando Prats in its pavilions.
Alexander Apóstol, Ronald Morán and Randall Weeks in Formes & Desformes
ZAK Gallery, from Siena, inaugutared “Formes & Desformes” curated by Antonio Arévalo. The exhibition involves three internationally known Latin American artists.
Success at the New York Latin American Art Sales from Christie´s and Sotheby´s
Works by Diego Rivera, Fernando Botero, Rufino Tamayo, and Beatriz Milhazes realized top prices at Christie’s two-session sale of Latin American Art on November 17 & 18 in New York.
Workshop with Dora García and Fire To The Prisons at OPA
Because of her individual exposition in OPA Por nada, contra todo / For Nothing Against Everything, the artist Dora García will offer a workshop for the interested public that will happen on November 25 from 10 am to 2 pm, at the OPA headquarters.
Des Pacio’s Artistic Convocatory
Des Pacio, just like its name indicates, it juxtaposes without a hierarchical order of the two vital notions of live: time and space. In the dizzy race of the art medium, this Project assumes slowness to give feeling.
Hernan Cedola at the Chelsear Art Museum and Pinta New York
After participating in the show "Abstraction Revisited" at the Chelsea Art Museum, home of the Miotte Foundation, the Colombian Hernan Cedola was the artist chosen by the Dot Fifty One Gallery as the one presented at the art fair Pinta New York.
Iván Navarro and his Proposal for a Monument for Víctor Jara
By: Señales Rojas 2010 – Art against the proliferation of barbarism, an IILA – Italo-Latin American Institute- project in collaboration with Fondazione Volume!
La Muerte de Todos los Días, by Guillermo Arias, in Casa Escorza, Guadalajara
With the thundering eloquence of arms, the footprints of violence come up, more and more frequently, throughout the country.
Genetic Sequence Results from Xavier Cortada at The Frost Art Museum
Can a DNA sequence generated randomly have any parallel to an existing life-form?
The Círculo de Bellas Artes Of Madrid Welcomes the Work of the Photographer Horacio Coppola
El Círculo de Bellas Artes (The Circle of Fine Arts) of Madrid welcomes to the Sala Picasso the work of Horacio Coppola, pioneer of photography of the Argentinean vanguard and an artist who has made one of the best portraits of Buenos Aires.
Pinta New York Inaugurates its Fourth Edition
After three successful editions in New York and a first in London last June, PINTA, the unique Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, consolidates its position as a leading art fair in two world capitals, establishing new strategies in the Latin American art market.
Announcing BAVIC, Seventh Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American Isthmus
BAVIC is a platform for artists of Central America who are projecting their works at the international level.
O. Ascanio Gallery Opens its Doors in Miami
O. Ascanio Gallery opened its doors in the Wymwood art district in Miami this past September 11th, 2010.
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art
Houston—October 2010— Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the Latin American art department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the vital collection of art it has amassed in a short timeframe.
Puntos de Fuga . Arquitecturas Possibles
In Alliance with the Fundación Fondo Internacional de las Artes - FIART- (International Art Fund Foundation) , 18 Ibero-American artists are coming together at the Biblioteca EPM/Sala de Ciudad, of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, MAMM.
Reopening of the Art Museum of Ponce After Renovation
The new Art Museum of Ponce will open its doors again on November 14th after a multimillion dollar renovation and expansion project.
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera (Havana, 1915) studied architecture at the University of Havana’s School of Architecture, where she discovered what she herself calls “the extraordinary world of straight lines”, which has remained a major interest to date.
Radical Optimism
The spirit of “Optimismo Radical” (Radical Optimism) was already present in some of the streets around the New York gallery Josée Bienvenu.
Modern Negative
“Negativa Moderna” faces the viewer with a careful selection of works by fourteen Venezuelan artists, in a posthumous reflection on the legacy of the modernist project in Latin America (which Venezuela headed in the 1950s due to the wealth it derived from oil production).
Retratos Pintados
There was a time when photography was not deemed susceptible of conveying the liveliness and the intensity that every good portrait required.
Atopía: Art and City in the Twentieth Century
Rooted in different intellectual fields contemporary philosophy, computer science, or cultural studies the exhibition “Atopia: Art and City in the Twentieth Century” is a response to a series of anguishing symptoms of the city in the culture of world globalization.
Martín Ramírez
Martín Ramírez (Rincón de Velásquez, México, 1895) is one of those great mysteries that contemporary art presents from time to time. An emigrant to prosperous California in 1925, the 1929 collapse left him jobless and immersed in a deep depression that robed him of the power of speech.
Jorge Pardo Received the 2010 MacArthur Award
The Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo (Havana, 1963), who had a solo show at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills last summer, was chosen among the recipients of the prestigious fellowship MacArthur award.
