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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.
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.
