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The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting Maria Thereza Negreiros. Offerings until April 1, 2012.
The International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid 2012, which is set to take place from 15-19 February will gather together 158 galleries from more than 30 countries in its General Program, as well as a further 58 galleries selected for its Curated Programs.
Tate announced the appointment of Colombian curator José Roca (b.1962) as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art.
The exhibition The Return of the Tamagni Collection: To the Stars Through Difficult Paths, reenacts the history of Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.
The María José Jove Foundation calls for applications from young artists to participate in the Fifth International Visual Arts Award 2012, aimed at fostering the diffusion of art and the promotion of young artists. It is a biennial competition of national scope, endowed with 27,000 Euros.
Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970, the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to Jesús Soto to be held at a New York museum in more than 35 years, will be on view at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery from January 10 through March 31, 2012.
"The introduction of Colombian curator Inti Guerrero in TEOR/éTica heralds a new perspective for the institution, giving continuation to the legacy of founder Virginia Perez-Ratton.
AND AND AND is an artist run initiative, which will use the time between now and dOCUMENTA (13) in June 2012 to consider with individuals and groups across the world the role art and culture can play today and the constituent publics or communities which could be addressed.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums.
Mario García-Torres inquires into the negation relationship between documentary photography and an obscure military episode in the December issue of Frieze Magazine.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in partnership with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico, is presenting until January 29, 2012, Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World.
One of the most surprising sections in Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, and one in which Latin American art played an unprecedented leading role was Art Positions. Featured on this occasion in the fair premises, it gathered together 16 young galleries presenting individual projects by emerging artists from nine countries, among them Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Colombia.
Serpentine Gallery, London, inaugurated a solo show by Lygia Pape (1927–2004), organized jointly by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Projeto Lygia Pape and the gallery.
At Fernando de Szyszlo´s 86 years (born in Lima, Perú, 192) Durban Segnini Gallery has joined in the spirit of the homage organised by the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), with a retrospective celebration that brought together more than hundred works.
Armando Morales (Nicaragua 1927 - Miami 2011), one of the pioneering masters of dialogue with the modernist avant-garde on the continent and who also built his language-as modern and contemporary, on the vast expanse of the landscape of central and South America, with its vast jungles and wild places.
The Latin American Art sale from Sotheby’s brought the overall sale total to $20,221,938, over the $19.1 million low estimate, with 66% of lots sold and 77.8% sold by value.
Paul Morris, Co-Founder of The Armory Show, announced today the appointment of Noah Horowitz, Ph.D., as the art fair’s Managing Director. Horowitz joins The Armory Show leadership team — including Morris and Managing Directors Michael Hall and Deborah Harris — effective today.
One of the most interesting aspects of the fifth edition of Pinta New York was the way in which different gallerists chose to show some works by renowned artists which are not their best known pieces but which, however, have a particular significance, as well as to include recent series that change the direction of their investigations.
The opening of the fifth edition of Pinta New York was market by two significant lines from the very nature of Latin American art: depth and heterogeneity.
Sotheby’s fall sale of Latin American Art in New York on 16 and 17 November 2011 will showcase a range of Latin American painting and sculpture from the continents’ most important artists including exceptional works from important collections that are fresh to the market.
Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its Latin American Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 33 lots with a low estimate of $5,935,000 and a high estimate of $8,205,000.
Christie’s New York announces details of its major fall Latin American Sale on November 15, and November 16.
This year PINTA, the Latin American fair of modern and contemporary art will have a brand new look when it opens its doors in New York from November 10th to the 13th. Its new location at 7 West 34th Street at 5th Avenue will accommodate fifty galleries and projects from the United States, Latin America and Europe.
Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, is presenting Ernesto Neto's exhibition, O Bicho SusPenso na PaisaGen (Bug Suspended in the Landscape), curated by Jessica Morgan, contemporary art curator at Tate Modern. A complete catalogue will release in December 2011.
The exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art reunites, for the first time in 80 years, five “portable murals,” freestanding frescoes with bold images addressing the Mexican Revolution and Depression-era New York that Rivera created at the Museum for his 1931–32 MoMA exhibition.
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma presents a selection of important works of Cuban artists' collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TB A21) Collection, founded by Francesca von Habsburg, daughter of Baron HH Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Modify, as needed is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art's Knight Exhibition Series. It features works by Latino American emergent artist such as Adriana Lara, Natalia Ibáñez Lario, Jose Carlos Martinat, Amilcar Packer, and Nicolás París, and their peers, Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, Nina Beier, Karl Holmqvist, Nick Relph, and Anders Smebye.
The Arts and Philosophy department at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus is presenting a lecture by visual artist Esteban Blanco as part of its Wolfson Focus on the Humanities series on Thursday, Oct. 20.
The Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca (MACO) exhibits Ruido Blanco (White Noise), by the Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora (Colima, Mexico 1968), an exhibition curated by Kerstin Erdmann and co-organized by OMR Gallery, which includes more than 60 works from the last five years of production, in media ranging from drawing to sculpture.
The Chilean artist Catalina Parra and the Argentinean artist Leandro Katz unite their autonomous proposals at the D21 Gallery, in Chile, where they remained until October 8.
