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As part of the celebration of the activities to commemorate the 40^th Anniversary of ARCOmadrid, the exhibition ARCO. Recorridos Fotográficos (ARCO. Photographic Tours) is presented at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Curated by Rafael Doctor Roncero, the project brings together images produced by over eighty artists throughout the successive editions of the ARCOmadrid Art Fair, founded and inaugurated in 1982.

The exhibition, conceived by the Argentinean artist María Marta Fasoli (Mar del Plata, 1964), consists of a series of watercolours that explore the symbolism of the sea from the perspective of personal identity and its capacity to represent the dynamic character of the creative process.

The Chilean artist Patrick Hamilton exhibits an interactive sculpture in the Patio Sur of the Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, Spain) that questions the critical state of the current economic and climate crisis.

The young Mexican artist is exhibiting for the first time in Spain with a project conceived especially for the Madrid gallery.

In the exhibition presented by the Alliance Française Lima, the multiple worlds or netes that make up the Shipibo universe are united into one: The world of beauty and art.

The artwork by the emblematic artist Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina, 1899 - Varese, Italy, 1968) was conceived by the artist in 1951 as a piece whose composition defies the limits of disciplines as diverse as drawing, sculpture, design and lighting.

The Colombian artist is showing her work “Mural para fábrica socialista” at the OCA (Office for Contemporary Art) in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition aims to catalyze solidarity against global conflicts and injusticies.

The choice of Aballí as the artist to benefit from the programme was made by a jury made up of two collectors and two directors of institutions related to artistic production in Spain —convened by the ARCO Foundation— who chose four Spanish artists and, subsequently, by the Meadow Museum's Selection Committee, constituted by the curatorial team and three collectors from the Meadows Museum's Advisory Council. Ignasi Aballí thus becomes the first participant in the MAS Programme.

In an atypical summer, the Hilario Artes Letras Oficios auction house holds a special edition through its website and with the closing of bids on Thursday, February 18, from 6.30 p.m. in Argentina, with an interval of 2 minutes between lot and lot. 

Devotional objects play an important role in the daily life of communities and are admired both for their artistic value and for their spiritual importance.

Teresa Burga was a precursor of Peruvian technological art. She was a conceptual multimedia artist and one of the most important exponents of the Peruvian non-objectualist artistic movement.

Until February 21fst, at the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (CAB), the Madrid artist David Magán (Spain, 1979) presents the exhibition Matter Matters. Conceived especially for the CAB space, Magán's expansive sculpture transforms the centre's underground into an immersive experience through form, light and colour.

Illuminate Coral Gables(ICG) is a new public art initiative focusing on the intentional use of light and technology to transform public art by day into magical and mysterious work at night.

Galeria Leme and Central Galeria  are pleased to present a special project at the Marieloisa Building with works by José Carlos Martinat (Lima, Peru, 1974) and Rodrigo Sassi (São Paulo, 1981).

Works by Ana Mendieta, Martha Rosler, Hito Steyerl and others present at the new Walker Art Center exhibition.

Sísmica brings together Chilean galleries and artists on a single platform.

The first exhibition of the Guatemalan composer’s útiles sonoros (sound tools) in the United States. The exhibition, a collaboration between Visual Arts at Americas Society and Music of the Americas, presents these innovative instruments alongside the work of contemporary artists. On view through March 5, the exhibition is curated by Diana Flatto and Sebastián Zubieta.

Naomi Beckwith was announced as the museum's new deputy director and chief curator.

The Pinta Group and their respective fairs, both Pinta Miami and BAphoto, introduced a series of videos in which the artists presented their works.

Guest curated by photographer Paul Graham, the show features nine contemporary photographers that present images made in the 21st-century United States, reflecting a movement towards a lyrical documentary practice. Their work fits the notion of “photography from the world”—photography that resists both narrative arcs and the drama of photojournalism and staged photography, grappling instead with the world as it is, in all its ambiguity and wonder.

On the façade of the three-story building in Miami’s Design District that will house Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s remarkable collection, there will be no distinctive name; only a billboard featuring Félix González Torres’s solitary bird soaring into the sky.

The influential artist Carmelo Arden Quin, born in Rivera, Uruguay, in 1913, passed away on September 27, 2010 at 97 years of age, in Savigny-sur-Orge.

The exhibition Retratos Paraguayos en Dos Tiempos, at the CAV/Museo del Barro, presents chronologically different works that converge in a revealing manner even though their creators were never in contact.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Bauhaus, the Coral Gables Museum (Miami, Florida) presents America Weaves, a collective exhibition that brings together textile artists from all over the Americas.

On Saturday February 8^th, at an important art fair in Mexico, ZONA MACO, an accident happened with one of the works on display.

On Saturday February 8^th, during the Mexican art fair ZONA MACO, the Tequila 1800 Collection awards ceremony took place and the first prize was won by Gina Arizpe for her work ‘Names and Coordinates’.

The Municipal Government of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in coordination with the Ministry of Human Development and together with Kiosko Gallery, organize the XXI International Biennial of Art of Santa Cruz de la Sierra 2019-2020, which hosts different events with a total of 51 artists and curators from different countries.

The GOAT is the first solo museum presentation for Cuban painter Tomás Esson. On this occasion, ICA Miami brings together works spanning his thirty-year studio practice alongside a site-specific mural and a commissioned reinterpretation of his early painting installations. This exhibition is organized by ICA Miami and curated by Gean Moreno, Director, Knight Foundation Art + Research Center.

In a presentation that has Peruvian land as its protagonist, the Colección Jan Mulder features artworks and a book by photographers Linda Connor, Jero Gonzáles and Horacio Ochoa.

Due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic and travel restrictions worldwide, Art Basel has decided to postpone its June fair. The 2021 edition of Art Basel will now take place at Messe Basel from September 23 to September 26, 2021.

Curated by Stefanie Hessler and co-produced by Kunsthall Trondheim, Nets of Hyphae by visual artista and composer Policarpo continues her research into fungi networks, drawing speculative webs of connection between ergot spores, reproductive justice and alternative forms of knowledge.

La historia como rumor (History as rumor) is an annual program of online exhibitions conceived by the director Gabriela Rangel with the aim of documenting and contextualizing a set of performances that occurred at different times and places in America and the Caribbean. This occasion, the fifth exhibition of the program, will be dedicated to Helado de agua de mar Caribe (Caribbean Sea Water Ice Cream) (2002), by the artist Quisqueya Henríquez who will have a conversation with Sara Hermann moderated by Gabriela Rangel and broadcast on YouTube.