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Tony Capellan at the Trienal of Santo Domingo
While I roamed the halls of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Santo Domingo, I remembered an installation exposition of Tony Capellan in this museum in the late 90s.
Paraguayan Portraits in Two Eras
The exhibition Retratos Paraguayos en Dos Tiempos, at the CAV/Museo del Barro, presents chronologically different works that converge in a revealing manner even though their creators were never in contact.
Allora & Calzadilla at Parisien Gallery Chantal Crousel
Allora & Calzadilla, the collective created for Jeniffer Allora (born 1974, USA) and Guillermo Calzadilla (born 1971, Cuba), is having its third individual show at Gallery Chantal Crousel in Paris.
IAC
In the Brazilian scene, where there is still an evident absence of cultural centers with a minimally coherent program the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Institute) (IAC), inaugurated in Sao Paulo in 2006, constitutes a healthy exception.
Artistic Revelations in the Ceramic TileTriennial
Elit/Tile 2010, the Fourth International Ceramic Tile Triennial, held in collaboration with the Igneri Foundation/Art and Archaeology at the Centro León in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
"General Protest" By Tania Bruguera in Dominõ Canibal. PAC Murcia 2010
DOMINÓ CANÍBAL is an initiative by the Culture and Tourism Council of the region of Murcia encompassed by the PAC (Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo de Murcia 2010)
Annual Auction of Latin American Art by Phillips de Pury & Company in New York
Phillips de Pury & Company’s annual auction of Latin American art will feature contemporary art, photographs, design, and editions including highlights by Fernando Botero, Sergio Camargo, Wifredo Lam
Anna María Guasch and her Vision of the Crossroad of Latin American Art at the MUAC
Anna Maria Guasch, accredited Art History professor at the Universidad de Barcelona and art critic, made a lecture about her essay: “From the new internationalism to local speeches: the crossroad of Latin American art on the way to post-modernity in a global age”, at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC, Mexico City.
Carlos Garaicoa at Matadero, Madrid
Seven carpets rest on the floor of the oldest cooling camera in Matadero Madrid.
The MUAC Launched Catalog of the Ergo, materia. Arte povera Exposition
The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) launched the catalog for the Ergo, materia. Arte povera exposition, during an event with the participation of the curators Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Guillermo Santamarina, and the artist Luis Felipe Ortega.
A Discussion About the Growth of Miami’s Art Community
The growth of Miami's art community raises questions about its development and direction
Mercosul Biennial announces curatorial team for the 8th edition
The chief curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial José Roca, has announced the team of curators to work on the curatorial plans for this edition, which is due to take place from September to November 2011, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Carla Zaccagnini: An Installation Around the Sense of Community and Collective Work at MUSAC
On September 18th there will be presented, as an integrating part of the exposition To be constructed by Laboratory 987, Reação em cadeia com efeito variável installation by the Argentine artist resident of São Paulo Carla Zaccagnini.
César Trasobares: A Lecture About His Installation of Rings in Human Rites at Bass Museum
In 1983, Cesar Trasobares began the construction of RINGHEAD (Exorcism from Style)
Argentina in Focus: Cristian Segura / Sergio Vega at the Art Museum of The Americas
With a parrot speaking into a microphone in its galleries, and its facade in flames, the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States announces Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept—Cristian Segura/Sergio Vega.
Sara Modiano, In Memoriam
Artists always die too soon. There are pieces left halfway done, unfinished series, and in cases like the plastic artist Sara Modiano’s, we are left with a feeling that time had not yet given her the acknowledgement that her work deserved.
Announcing Inaguration of In Transition: 2010 CIFO Grants and Commissions Exhibition
CIFO announces the inauguration of In Transition, its 2010 Grants and Commissions Programs exhibition on view from September 3rd through November 7th at the CIFO Art Space.
The Toledo´s Inform: Arte, Life and Political Context in the Vision of Francisco Toledo
The series of fifteen prints Francisco Toledo made on account of Franz Kafka's Report For an Academy
Dialogue Among Art and Pedagogy in Two Parallel Exhibitions at the MUAC: Beuys and Mario Rangel Faz
The University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in association with Deutsche Bank presents an exhibition on teachers and their students.
Danilo Dueñas Won the DAD Fellowship in Visual Arts
Danilo Dueñas has been awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin (2011-2012). He is the first Colombian artist to receive this international honor.
Coca-Colonized: Relationship Among Mass Culture and Art From on Developing Regions
Hilger BrotKunsthalle from Vienna, Austria, is pleased to announce the opening of Coca-colonized* curated by South African-born curator Claire Breukel and featuring nine artists from South America, Central America and Africa.
Dislocation: Chilean and European Artists Confront Contemporary Chilean History
Dislocation, a project that includes exposition dynamics, the meeting and exchange between contemporary Swiss and Chilean artists in an international path.
José Roca Named Chief Curator for the 8th Mercosul Biennial
The curator José Roca is to be chief curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, set to take place in Porto Alegre from September to November 2011.
São Paulo Biennial, 2010. Curatorial visions from the 29th edition
The concept of this year's São Paulo Biennial (September 25 - December 12) anchored on the notion that it is impossible to separate art from politics.
Pictorial Exposition of Women in the Mexican Revolution
"Adelitas", women soldiers and coronels make up the collective exposition “Women in the Revolution”, which is being exhibited at the Regional Museum of Art.
Presence of Central American and Caribbean artists in the XXXI Biennial in Pontevedra.
In an article by David Barro published by El Mundo, about the XXXI Biennial in Pontevedra which is made up of many locations (Pontevedra, Vigo y Vilagarcía).
The collective Viernes transformed “El 52”, the new emergent space of OMR, in an aviary
The Gallery OMR opened "El 52" a new space next to its habitual place, in which projects of emerging artists are shown.
1st International Triennial of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo 2010 (TRIC 2010)
Supported by the statement "Santo Domingo, Cultural Capital of America 2010," and in an effort to develop international cultural presence, the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture, through the Museo de Arte Moderno, undertakes the celebration of the "1st International Triennal of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo 2010."
The Exposition of Collective Euro-American Photographics, E.CO, starts its international journey in Sao Paulo
The exposition has been installed in the Cultural Center Sao Paulo of Brazil (www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br), where it will be opened until the 25 of August.
The Fantastic Zoology by Francisco Toledo at Instituto Cervantes in New York
In 1953, Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero published the first bestiary from the universal imagination: Fantastic Zoology.
Study of Latin American Art at Hunter College Transformed with Major Gift from Fundacion CPPC
Hunter College has entered into a major partnership with the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) that will have a transformative impact on the teaching and development of Latin American art at Hunter.
