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Postponed before being reinvented online, Art Paris 2020, the modern and contemporary art fair, will be born again at the Grand Palais in a real-world version from September 10–13. It will be the first European cultural and commercial event of the season.

On August 7 at 11 am Colombia time, the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO), directed by Claudia Hakim, has organized a program within the framework of ARTBO Weekend for the launch of the book. In turn, the book was also released at the New York University’s  Institute of Fine Arts

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) announces the selection of artists exhibited in The New Woman: Gender Discourse in the Development of Cuban Female Photography at the Biennale della Fotografia Femminile in Mantova, Italy.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) announced the expansion of its Art + Research Center, South Florida’s only museum-based research department, and its renaming to the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC). The department’s new name commemorates a $2 million grant to ICA Miami from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2018.

The artist is presenting a group of works belonging to his Joint Effort series. Jose Dávila challenges his own practice to create site-specific sculptures from found objects on Cockatoo Island, the site of an early colonial quarry, a British convict precinct of incarceration, a place where ships were built for the Second World War, and now a protected UNESCO site.

New York - Lasting until next year, the museum's first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art debuts with online artists' projects.

BAphoto presents Open File, a series of interviews coordinated by Marina Oybin in which the artists are invited to revisit the history of their images based on an anecdote or memory linked to their personal archive.

Currently on view, Fantasías Modulares presents a wide range of elements. Grinning triangles, lounging cows, and winking circles populate the vibrant, queer landscapes of Ad Minoliti’s imagined worlds. Trained as a painter, Minoliti draws on the rich legacy of geometric abstraction in her native country, Argentina, where geometry was used as a tool for picturing utopian alternatives. By combining abstraction with playful figuration, Minoliti upends familiar fairy tales, turning them on their head. She is particularly interested in disrupting pictorial cultural norms that uphold traditional views of sexuality and gender.

An essay contest, virtual exhibitions and the presentation of illustrative materials, photographs and videos make up the program that will be presented between July 29, 2020 and July 29, 2021 by the Otero-Pardo Foundation in alliance with the ArtesanoGroup Foundation.

On Saturday, July 25th, Gabriela Rangel, Art Director at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), discussed her institutional projects in the museum with Francisco Medail, Art Director at BAphoto.

By Dalia Chévez: Workshop educator. Creator of alternative dynamics for artistic training. Bachelor in philosophy. Master in strategic communication management. Diploma in pedagogies of differences. Diploma in corporeality and technonarratives. Article commissioned by Y.ES Contemporary, part of the 2019 Y.ES Artist Academy focused on arts writing.

Given the global scenario we’ve been going through, but without giving up on their commitment towards Latin American art, an online edition of PArC, Peru Arte Contemporáneo was carried out. Now, with the support of EFG Wealth Management, they present their catalogue

Sailing through the wake of abstract expressionism into recycled cinema and afterwards into object-oriented and performance-based destructivist art, Raphael Montañez Ortiz has spent more than six decades at the forefront of American postwar art. Virtual Book Launch: July 22, in conversation with Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Patrick Charpenel, Juan Sanchez, Chon Noriega, and others.

Étant donnés Contemporary Art is the only French-American fund for contemporary art. Initiated by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE Foundation, with the support of leading partners and sponsors, it aims to foster collaborations between visual artists, curators and institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. These are the 15 grantees for this year:

This Saturday, July 18th, art collector Ella Fontanals-Cisneros will talk with photographer Gabriel Valansi about photography collecting.

Now in its third year, the Fellowship honors ten artists and cultural producers working at the intersection of migration, public space, and the arts. From Brazil, Botswana, Jamaica, Nigeria, Palestine, St. Croix, Syria, Tlingít Aaní, the United States, and their respective diasporas, the fellows each receive an 80,000 USD stipend to realize an ambitious project over the next 18 months.

Pat Steir: Artist, directed by Mexico City-born novelist and filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña about the life of artist Pat Steir, was released on digital platforms. It is distributed by Giant Pictures, a digital distributor for independent filmmakers.

This solo exhibition highlights women as a corrective to dominant historical narratives that excluded their role as factory workers, and suggests parallels with current struggles against gender inequality. Available until January 17, 2021, itwas organized by guest curator Kate Bonansinga in collaboration with Amara Antilla, Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Center.

Under the direction of Katya Cazar, in the 15th edition of the Cuenca Biennial, eleven women artists with a long history in contemporary art participate in this exhibition in times of pandemic (a necessary curatorial exercise that reflects on the closure of the tangible and intangible, the everyday and the symbolic). A bet on resistance and creation in complex present times.

On Saturday, July 11th, in Conversations with artists, photographer Flor Garduño and cultural journalist María Paula Zacharías will talk about the characteristics of Garduño oeuvre and her career as an artist.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1932, Paksa died on July 5, 2020. The artist dedicated much of her career to the intersection between art and technology that, in her own words, had become the pillars of her life. Throughout her career she ventured into different techniques such as sculpture, drawing, design, installations, painting, objects, digital art and video-art.

An unprecedented series of three auctions, conducted remotely by Chairman and auctioneer Oliver Barker in London, took bids from Sotheby's specialists on phone banks in New York, Hong Kong & London, as well as online bidders. The ongoing sales were gloablly live streamed, and it was led by Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus”, sold for $84.6 Million

Latitude is an angle which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° at the poles. Lines of constant latitude, or parallels, run east–west as circles parallel to the equator and never touch. In Latitudes // Parallels, Juana Valdes utilizes the strategies of anthropological research to consider how the legacy of colonization is entrenched in institutions, hierarchies and, most importantly, objects.

Claire Breukel is the Curator for Dacra, where she’s responsible for managing Dacra’s diverse and expansive cultural programming in the Miami Design District.

Montevideo - The new podcast channel is developed entirely by the ESTE ARTE team, curated by Laura Bardier and led by Elisa Valerio, and is part of the Cultural Program of the ESTE ARTE International Art Fair, with activities and cultural programs developed throughout the year.

In this occasion, collector José Luis Lorenzo will talk with visual artist and photographer Gabriel Valansi about the particularities of collecting photography and the changes in the ways of acquiring artworks in times of social distancing

Open now until July 25th, PLACE Miami - Preview Edition is an art + design pop up exhibit in the heart of the Miami Design District, featuring the work of Vivian Carbonell (furniture design), Gavin Perry (painting), Tawnie Silva (textile) and Hush Fell (video).

The chosen artwork is Entierro from the DECIERTO series (2011), a digital Print on cotton paper of 80 x 180 cms.

On view 24 June - 15 November, 2020, the exhibition is curated by Roland Wetzel. It features the upcycling of death instruments into musical instruments

Join Portrait Gallery curator Dorothy Moss for a conversation with artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Jeffrey Gibson about issues of identity and strategies for reinserting BIPOC histories into museum spaces through live performance and object making. Presented by PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery’s Scholarly Center.