• Luis Tomasello

    Of Form and Light

    In the book-object Negro el 10, the last collaboration between Julio Cortázar* and Luis Tomasello, the writer accurately describes the artist’s creative procedure. He states that “…

  • Felipe Ehrenberg

    The Local Gift of Ubiquity

    In an interview with Felipe Ehrenberg (Mexico City, 1943) included in the catalogue of his exhibition, Manchuria, Visión Periférica (Manchuria, Peripheral Vision) (2006), Guillermo Gómez-Peña calls the indefinable artist (furiously Mexican in the first place, and then, universal) who prefers to call himself − like his father, Duchamp − an “artisano” (a play with words combining artisan/artist and “sano”/healthy), although his actual profession is that of “neologist”, inventor of logical systems of thought, that is, of languages, "my conceptual goD.F.ather."

  • Emilio Perez

    A Painter’s Painter

    Emilio Perez was born in New York and raised in Miami, Florida. In 1990, at the age of 18, he moved back to New York to attend the Pratt Institute and returned to Miami two years later to complete his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at the New World School of the Arts.

Museum Exhibitions

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA, New York

Diego Rivera’s relationship with New York is longstanding. As the most internationally renowned Mexican muralist of his time, MOMA commissioned Rivera in 1931 to work in the museum and create a series of portable fresco murals for a retrospective exhibition.

Interview

Patrick Charpenel: New Director of the Jumex Museum

In 2002, curators Patrick Charpenel Corvera, born in Mexico, and Silvia K. Cubiñá, born in Puerto Rico, worked together in an exhibition entitled Interplay, presented at The Moore Space in Miami, as part of the projects coinciding with the launching of Art Basel Miami Beach.

News

CIFO appointed Jesús Fuenmayor as its new Director and Curator

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation welcomes Jesús Fuenmayor as CIFO's new Director and Curator. Fuenmayor has been the Director, since 2005, of Periférico Caracas, a contemporary art space in Venezuela, where he organized more than 30 exhibitions.

A renovated and expanded Yale University Art Gallery will open in December 2012

The Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, Connecticut, the oldest and one of the most important university art museums in America, is in the final phase of a renovation and expansion that will transform the visitor experience of both the museum and its esteemed collections.

Maria Thereza Negreiros Offerings at Frost Museum

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting Maria Thereza Negreiros. Offerings until April 1, 2012.

Reviews

An Other Place
Galerie Lelong, New York

Although the works range from painting to video installation, and although the artists are from Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, “An Other Place” reverberates a collective sense of displacement.

Jac Leirner
Estação Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo

Seen from far away, one of the pieces at Jac Leirner's retrospective show now on at Estação Pinacoteca in São Paulo looks like an all white minimalist composition, a Robert Ryman of sorts, discrete and almost about to disappear against the immaculate wall of the museum.

Karina Peisajovich
Alejandra Von Hartz, Miami

Karina Peisajovich’s recent exhibition, entitled “The eyes, sometimes”, features in the manner of an exploration of the intimate process of creation, the three possible scenarios: the studio, the encounter with nature, and the experience itself as a space for reflection.

David Maggioni
Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires

The sculpture in white tissue paper by David Maggioni from Santa Fe (Argentina, 1988), which inundates the new space of Ruth Benzacar Gallery, resembles a great and soft, peaceful white cloud.