Notes related to Museos

The team of the General Directorate of Visual Arts and the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of the UNAM appointed Tatiana Cuevas Guevara, curator and art historian, as the next director of the MUAC.

The Brooklyn Museum announced open call for Brooklyn artists to participate in a major upcoming exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 200^th anniversary. Deadline to apply: April 7^th, 2024.

The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and proyectoamil present Evoking a Space Beyond Cinema, the first monographic museum exhibition by Rosa Barba in Peru. 

With more than 100 works, the exhibition "Sounds of Bispo do Rosário" at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum introduces the legacy of the renowned artist in dialogue with other figures who were strongly influenced by his work.

Graphic Scores at PROA 21 presents, for the first time in Argentina, a selection of works by the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay (1955), an unavoidable reference in the field of visual-sound experimentation.

Featuring works by 67 national and international artists, Everything Becomes Lighter is a thematic exploration in keeping with the current times. The exhibition at JUMEX considers the healing power of light and lightness as an antidote to the forces of darkness and heaviness that surround humanity today.

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith at Whitney Museum puts the artist's life on display alongside his art and collections.

El Museo del Barrio announced the second rotation of its permanent collection exhibition Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección.

The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo) and the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo (Emanuel Araujo Afro Brazil Museum) presented the exhibition Mãos: 35 anos da Mão Afro-Brasileira (Hands: 35 years of the Afro-Brazilian Hand).

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Rubell Museum is presenting three exhibitions: Basil Kincaid: Spirit in the Gift; Alejandro Piñeiro Bello; and Singular Views: Los Angeles.

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The Bass presents Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists, an exhibition on-view beginning December 4, 2023 that explores conceptual art as a permissive realm for creative behavior and an inviting space for queerness.

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ICA Miami presents the first solo museum presentation for New York–based artist Sasha Gordon, Surrogate Self. The surreal paintings and drawings that Gordon creates explore the complexities of bodily experience in gorgeous and hyper-realistic detail.

El Dorado: Myths of Gold is an extensively researched, impeccably installed exhibition featuring one-hundred objects and artworks from the Pre-Columbian period to the 21^st century by sixty artists.

Drawing upon biology and new anthropological discourses as conceptual frameworks, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) A leaf Shapes the Eye, proposes a holistic worldview in which there is no distinction between humans and their environment, and where relationships between all elements are in constant flux.

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá the exhibition Viceversa will highlight the museum's collection.

Judy Chicago: Herstory brings together six decades of the artist’s work. Hosted by The New Museum in New York, the show includes an exhibition-whithin-the-exhibition spotlighting women essential to the history of art and Chicago’s own practice.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey presented the exhibition Corn & Industry, which brings together a vast selection of Damián Ortega’s work over the last thirty years, presenting a comprehensive portrait of his artistic production that showcases how his work engages in a dialogue with the construction of a “national culture".

Leeum Museum of Art presents National Treasures by Gala Porras-Kim, an exhibition that explores the intricacies that arise when ancient objects, history, and modern systems intersect.

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Juan Francisco Elso: Por América offers a captivating retrospective of the brief, yet significant career of the late Cuban artist.

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Coming to Fruition is the first solo exhibition in the United States by Miami-based artist Jason Seife.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

Curated by Patrick Blümel, the exhibition SURREAL FUTURES features 31 international positions from the fields of digital and media art, presenting forward-looking perspectives on Surrealism.

Americas Society presents the first part of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, a two-part group exhibition exploring the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas.

The exhibition David Hockney, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is the largest ever solo exhibition in Asia devoted to the British artist David Hockney, one of the most innovative artists of the postwar era.

The exhibition Conjeturas. Exploring art today, curated by Rodrigo Alonso, gathers pieces by Andrés Aizicovich, Sergio Avello, Elena Dahn, Iara Freiberg, Mauro Giaconi, Silvia Gurfein, Alicia Herrero, La Chola Poblete, Analía Sabán, Mariela Scafati, Alan Segal, Juan Sorrentino, Amparo Viau and Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan.

Artist Daniel Santoro proposes an immersive experience at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Argentina with an unpublished 30-meter-long work, plus a series of ink works and a charcoal drawing on one of the walls of the second-floor hall.

Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, United States (CAC) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Zaha Hadid-designed building with the exhibition A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid.

Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires inaugurated Cultura Colibrí. Art and identity in the Argentine underworld of the 80s and 90s. With Fernando Noy as host artist, the exhibition is a chronicle of the sexual exiles during the last military dictatorship, the democratic recovery and the festive and countercultural experimentation of the 1980s and 1990s.

The exhibition Marta Minujín: Vive at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo is the first panoramic exhibition in Brazil of one of the most important Latin American artists of her generation.

In the eclectic and vibrant universe of Edgardo Giménez, the exhibition There Will Be None Like Him at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) emerges as an unforgettable journey through more than sixty years of artistic production.