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Entre horizontes: art and activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago.

Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection at the Museum of fine Arts in Boston invites visitors to explore how contemporary artists trace and address concepts of care through their materials, subjects, ideas, and processes.

Mexican artist Sergio Hernández presented an exhibition at the Colegio de San Idefondo with 143 works. It is the most important and complete exhibition so far, which includes unpublished pieces.

Pinta Sud ASU closed its second edition in Asunción, Paraguay, where a proposal of first-class activities was carried out to reflect the avant-garde and eclectic spirit of national and regional art.

Within the framework of Pinta Sud ASU 2023 in Asunción, Paraguay, Casa M becomes for a few days the perfect setting for the site-specific intervention by artist Joaquín Sánchez, entitled The architecture of the body. Poetics of space and other fictions.

The Mendonca Collection inaugurated the exhibition El país de las mujeres (The Country of Women) at the Juan Salazar Cultural Center of Spain, as part of the second edition of Pinta Sud ASU 2023, which runs from August 7 to 13.

The Texo Foundation for Contemporary Art presents, during the second edition of Pinta Sud ASU, a cycle of activities and exhibitions with the objective of promoting contemporary art in Paraguay.

In the context of the second edition of Pinta Sud ASU –from August 7 to 13, 2023 in Asuncion, Paraguay– the Textilia complex presents the exhibition Oquedad (Hollowness) by artist Marcos Benitez. It is curated by Lia Colombino.

The exhibition How many worlds are we? Presented in The Jim Thompson Art Center explores the notion of East and West in traditional and contemporary cultural practices between Amazonas and Southeast Asia.

The Luis Caballero Award is back for its twelfth edition, which since 1996 has recognized the work of Colombian artists of long trajectory, becoming one of the most important incentives for the creation and circulation of art in Bogota, Colombia.

The Manzana de la Rivera –where the second edition of Pinta SUD | Asunción will take place from August 7 to 13, 2023– is a place of deep historical and cultural significance in the heart of Asunción, Paraguay.

The Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar is the winner of the 11^th Hiroshima Art Prize and will present an exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato presents the artist Pablo Vargas Lugo in Exceso solar (Solar Excess). It is curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.

The Chair Museum of Asuncion opened the first exhibition of National Industrial Design Diseña Paraguay 2023, where 38 exhibitors with innovative designs will participate. This exhibition will be part of the Pinta Sud | ASU program from August 7 to 13, 2023.

The Mendonca Collection, part of the second edition of Pinta Sud | ASU, houses key works of contemporary Paraguayan art -although it also includes works by artists of other nationalities- and counts with the collaboration and curatorship of expert art critics such as Adriana Almada, Felix Toranzos, Osvaldo Salerno and Ticio Escobar.

For the exhibition Reassembling Split Light at Sarasota Art Museum, Carlos Bunga will create a temporary cardboard structure in the 30-foot-high Koski Gallery located on the Museum’s third floor. Beginning and ending as a dialogue with the existing architecture, this installation will transform the gallery’s spatial configuration for the duration of the exhibition. By deploying light as his primary conceptual basis, just as James Turrell has done before him, Bunga explains that he will sculpt light, which cannot be touched, but only felt viscerally.

¡Qué viva el papeleo! (Long live paperwork!) is Amalia Pica's exhibition at the Museo Jumex that deals with office culture and focuses on finding pleasure and the potential for playing within the tedious processes of paperwork.

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Forces of Nature: Ancient Maya Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an exploration into the rich world of the supernatural in Maya art of the Classic period (250–900 CE), featuring 200 objects from LACMA's renowned collection of Ancient American art.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art presented a new exhibition, in partnership with the Denver Art Museum. ReVisión: Art in the Americas provides a poignant look into the history of Latin America.

Curated by art critic Adriana Almada, the exhibition El Cielo Ishir. Cosmogonic tales of the Paraguayan Chaco, brings together works by the late indigenous artist Ogwa and contemporaries Joaquin Sanchez and Fernando Allen.

The Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro opens the exhibition Pequeña historia del dolor (Little Story of Pain), by artist Arnaldo Cristaldo.

The results of the first edition of the Ama Amoedo Foundation Grants were announced. Among approximately 2,000 applications, 10 projects were selected in the following categories: Artists, Art and Social Commitment, Organizations and Publications.

Penumbra Foundation presented Black Alchemy: Resolve (attempt #1), the first solo exhibition in New York City by the photographer Aaron R. Turner.

Les Recontres d’Arles, the first international festival of photography, presents Traces, an exhibition by Roberto Huarcaya, a key figure in Peruvian contemporary photography.

What she means, curated by Hilton Als at Pérez Art Museum, is an exhibition that portraits Joan Didion featuring over 200 works by 50 artists, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, among many others.

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) opens Luz y Fuerza (Light and Strength), an exhibition that brings together nineteen contemporary Argentinean artists whose works revolve around spirituality.

Instituto Inhotim inaugurates a new permanent gallery dedicated to Yayoi Kusama. Galeria Yayoi Kusama features two of her works: I’m here, but nothing (2000) and Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009), both belonging to the Instituto Inhotim Collection.

The Tzitzimime Trilogy consists of three films: Versos de porquería (2021), Soneto de alimañas (2022), and Eclipse (2023) premiering at Casa Encendida.

(Te busco en otro nombre). Bitácora guatemalteca 1987/2023 [(I'm looking for you in another name). Guatemalan Journal 1987/2023] is the winning project of the second edition of the Julius Baer Prize for Latin American women artists. The winner Ana Gallardo, together with María Us, presents the exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).

The exhibition Manifiesto verde (Green Manifesto) at the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires takes its title from the declaration written in 1971 by artist Nicolás García Uriburu in which he expressed his desire to denounce the antagonism between nature and civilization.