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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.

For my nineteenth posting of the Getty-led initiative exploring Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, we will look at the Skirball Cultural Center’s exhibition ANOTHER PROMISED LAND: ANITA BRENNER’S MEXICO on view from September 14, 2017 through February 25, 2018. The exhibition celebrates a Mexican-American Jewish cultural trailblazer featuring works by luminaries of the Mexican Renaissance including Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and Frida Kahlo. The Skirball Museum Director, Robert Kirschner, points out that the museum’s participation in PST: LA/LA fully aligns with its mission to bridge people of diverse heritage and history while learning about its neighbors and consider how it represent cultures that are not their own. This posting is adapted from the museum’s press release in English. 

For my twentieth and final posting on the Getty-led initiative exploring Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, we will look at Juan Downey: Radiant Nature, a joint exhibition by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Pitzer College Art Galleries. The exhibitions brought to life important interactive works by the Chilean-­‐born artist Juan Downey (1940–1993) that have not been seen for generations. Drawing on groundbreaking research, Radiant Nature features recreations of Downey’s electronic sculptures and installations from the late 1960s and documentation of his early, innovative performance pieces. This two-­‐part exhibition opened at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA, on September 9 and at LACE in Los Angeles on September 13. They closed in December of 2017.

Since March 2017, Julia Herzberg has made a special coverage of this unique initiative on Latin-American art for Artealdia 

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA was a collaborative initiative led by the Getty that explored Latin American and Latino art over a four-month period from September 2017 through January 2018. Through Julia P. Herzberg, Arte al Día presented each of its proposals and exhibitions from the beginning. Now we shared a report by Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, that shows initiative also supported 4,080 jobs and added $24.3 million in tax revenues for state and local government

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.

The artist Rubie Rumié (Cartagena, 1958) reproduces her Divine Breath project, originally developed with Colombian women, and takes it to New York City. A dialogue that highlights the universality of domestic violence and the need to stand against it.

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.

This Miami art space presents a very careful and complete retrospective of Alfonzo’s work

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.

Their recent catalogue "Jan Mulder collection: Contemporary Photography" has been nominated in the section Special Editions/Literature.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Francistown, Botswana; lives in New York) wields the traditions of Western European painting to deliver sharp political critiques relating to the postcolonial condition. Exhibited at the museum is a large-scale, newly commissioned work by Mokgosi created for the museum’s distinctive 30-foot double-height project gallery.

Following its debut in Seoul, OSGEMEOS’ exhibition You Are My Guest is now on view at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, featuring a selection of paintings, installations, and sound pieces by the Brazilian artist duo. OSGEMEOS is known internationally for their unique, dreamlike visual language that brings together influences from Brazilian folklore, hip hop, graffiti, and street art.

The exhibition presents rarely seen examples of Latin American abstraction alongside works by American and European modernists and Phoenix-based contemporary artists. It explores how the visual language of abstraction has generated profound insights into Latin American culture and politics and how Latin American artists have drawn on abstraction’s parallel history in the United States and Europe.

Tomorrow, Saturday 9th, The Bass, the de la Cruz Collection and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive collaborate to present a celebration day honoring the personal and artistic legacy of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his death in Miami, Florida. The virtual celebration will feature a series of three conversations joined by a panel of colleagues and scholars with distinct views and perspectives, memorializing the life of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Live on Zoom.

Organized by Megan Fontanella, the exhibition reflects on several of the varied and complex courses nonrepresentational art followed in the 1960s and into the 1970s, and includes works by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and others.

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents Joan Jonas: Five Decades, the first solo exhibition in South America by the American pioneer of performance and video art Joan Jonas. The exhibition is curated by Berta Sichel, and is part of the network of collaborations of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo.

The Reina Sofia Museum presents "To a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love", the first solo exhibition of Petrit Halilaj (Kostërrc, Kosovo, 1986) in Spain. The exhibition, with large-scale installations, is located in the Palacio de Cristal.

“A journey, an exploration and an homage to private collecting in Colombia.” I Wanna Be With You is a group exhibition that investigates the concepts of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange, strategies of collaboration. On the other hand, isolation, seclusion, social distance, detachment, and separation. The project pays homage to some of the most prestigious Colombian private collections while offering an unusual itinerary of Colombian and international art history from the 1970s till now. Therefore, highlighting how private collections are a vital part of the art-system and an alternative yet exciting way of approaching and experiencing art.

The new research institute, established with a gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation, will be dedicated to understanding the interaction between architecture and ecology in order to highlight the urgent need for an ecological transformation. The goals of the Institute, through a range of curatorial programs and research initiatives, are to foster dialogue, promote conversation, and facilitate research around the relationship between the built and the natural environment.

Curated by Alastair Fuad-Luke, the 2021 edition of Porto Design Biennale aims to think and intervene in the current moment, under the theme Alter-Realities: Designing the Present.

Architecture with plant fibres has high sensual and haptic qualities, and in terms of the selection criteria of the FIBRA Award also high aesthetic quality. The FIBRA Award is given by amàco, the research and experimental centre for natural building materials in Villefontaine in France, and curator Dominique Gauzin-Müller.

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes will present, starting on January 8, the exhibition "Tres miradas sobre Mar del Plata", made up of a selection of photographs by Annemarie Heinrich, Ataúlfo Pérez Aznar and Alberto Goldenstein that can be seen at the MAR Museum (Museum of Contemporary Art of the Province of Buenos Aires) in Mar del Plata until June.

Curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Lara Marmor, the show radically exhibits new installations and drawings from different series made throughout Duville's career. "We invite the public to immerse themselves and perceive the strangeness generated by the timeless landscapes made by the artist, graphic representations of the earth created from reconstructions, some made by memory and others invented", state the curators. It is also complemented by a story written by César Aira in relation to the exhibition.

Terapia Fotográfica (Photographic Therapy), a Latin American photography community created in the wake of the pandemic, presents an urban gallery with photography on the facade of the Víctor Larco Herrera Hospital, in the Magdalena del Mar district. Curated by Sophia Durand, the exhibition evokes the viewers and makes of them the protagonists "with a look that welcomes and cures with art the symptoms of a pandemic society."

The artist received the award from the Spanish insurance company for the work Mirage II, from the Mecánica Celeste exhibition. The work of Glenda León affects with sensitivity and poetic acuity in that need of the human being (following Ernst Fischer) to complete its individuality. In this search for intimate nature, she resorts to exploring the Nature that surrounds us.