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SITE-SPECIFIC ART: RETHINKING HOW WE RELATE WITH OUR SURROUNDINGS
This week, Earth Day Week, Arte al Día wants to focus on thought-provoking artworks that raise awareness on the effect of human activities on the ecosystem and call upon a re-contemplation of man’s place in its surroundings.
VISIT PArC 2020 FROM YOUR HOME
Given the social distancing implemented after the COVID-19 crisis outburst, the PArC fair (Peru Contemporary Art) has created a virtual platform that does not replace the fair itself, which will be held in September, but which enables contact between the public and the participating artists and galleries. As of today, April 22, said platform is already working.
EARTH DAY AND A REFLECTION FROM THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTS OF BUENOS AIRES
The MAMBA continues with its cycle of contents that take as a trigger the work of a contemporary artist to reflect on the current context and the future.
LnS GALLERY PRESENTS “WITNESSING PERPETUITY” BY CARLOS ALFONZO
This Miami art space presents a very careful and complete retrospective of Alfonzo’s work
ART@WORK PRESENTS “THE FACEBOOK WORK” BY CUBAN ARTIST ARTURO CUENCA
This solo exhibition was on view (before COVID-19) in Art@work, Miami.
WINNERS OF THE 2020 CIFO SCHOLARSHIP AND COMMISSION PROGRAM
Madrid, Spain - The Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO) is pleased to announce the names of the winning artists of the CIFO 2020 Scholarships and Commissions Program.
JOAQUÍN TORRES GARCÍA: THE ARTIST, THE PHILOSOPHER, THE MASTER
Galería Sur of Punta del Este, Uruguay, turns 35 and celebrated it with a retrospective of Joaquín Torres García’s works, accompanied by the edition of a book: Torres García, Un universo vanguardista (Torres García, an avant-garde universe)
BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO – AN INTERESTING APPROACH
The Bienal de São Paulo has put forward an initiative in which they publish a series of open letters directed to the audience, to share their reflections about the development of the Biennial. It is a correspondence that combines fiction with anecdotes from the past, official and reimagined situations, influenced, without a shadow of a doubt, by daily events.
MEXICO CITY – WHO’S THE CURRENT DIRECTOR OF MUAC?
Amanda de la Garza (Monclova, México, 1981) has been named the Director General of Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and head of its University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC).
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON’S INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS EXPANDS ITS DIGITAL ARCHIVE
The ICAA website and database now offers free global access to primary materials that are critical to academic research in art from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latino communities.
PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI NAMES RENÉ MORALES DIRECTOR OF CURATORIAL AFFAIRS AND CHIEF CURATOR
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announces the new senior appointments of Emma Heald as Director of Development and René Morales as Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator, and changes to the museum staff, including Marie Vickles as Director of Education and Mark B. Rosenblum as Chief Operating Officer.
HILARIO ORGANIZES AN ONLINE AUCTION
Until April 11th, Hilario hosts an online auction with the same importance as always set to promote the collection of arts, literature and trades.
THE MAMBA PRESENTS THE DOCUMENTARY "SERGIO DE LOOF: SENTISTE HABLAR DE MI?”
The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, under the Ministry of Culture of the City Government, presents the documentary Sergio De Loof: Did you feel talking about me?, on Saturday April 4th at 6:00 pm through the website “Cultura en Casa ”, The platform of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires that gathers the cultural offer of the City for its access in a remote, free and free way.
WHO WILL BE THE NEW WINNER OF THE X LUIS CABALLERO PRIZE?
Bogotá, Colombia - The nominees were chosen through the 2018 District Stimulus Program and each received 17 million Colombian pesos to carry out their work.
DE LA CRUZ COLLECTION CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE SHARES A MESSAGE OF HOPE AND ITS ONLINE COLLECTION
Due to events of public knowledge, the de la Cruz Collection had to close their doors, but their commitment to the arts and sharing of knowledge is a strong, or stronger, than ever. Here’s their statement:
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BUENOS AIRES PRESENTS AN INTERVIEW CYCLE WITH TEN GREAT ARGENTINE ARTISTS
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) presents "Thoughts of an Artist", an original cycle of ten audiovisual interviews with relevant Argentine artists and backgrounds that will be available to the public on the institution's different digital platforms.
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI LAUNCHES AN ONLINE CHANNEL
Free and open access to arts education and visual literacy is more important than ever, and ICA Miami remains committed to telling artists' stories in unique and innovative ways.
30 MUSEUMS TO VISIT FROM HOME
Given the measures taken to close museums, galleries and other institutions, in Arte al día we put together a list of 30 museums and galleries with their online collections.
PIA CAMIL - MEXICAN ARTIST - IN THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE OF MASSACHUSETTS
The Clark Art Institute has launched a new program of year-long contemporary art exhibitions installed in its public spaces with an inaugural exhibition, Pia Camil: Velo Revelo, presenting three works by Pia Camil (Mexican, b. 1980).
VIRTUAL ART AND ACTIVITIES – MALBA RISES TO THE OCCASION
In accordance to the measures taken by the national authorities, which include social distancing and avoiding leaving the house as much as possible, the Malba has launched a project that has virtual artistic and historical content.
REMEDIOS VARO IN MALBA
Malba opened the 2020 exhibition calendar with Constelaciones (Constelations), an anthological exhibition by Remedios Varo (Anglès, Girona, 1908 - Mexico City, 1963), a central figure in Latin American surrealism and fantastic art and an inescapable benchmark for the Mexican scene from the mid-20th century, which brought together an extraordinary group of exiled artists and intellectuals.
ART FAIRS AND EVENTS, POSTPONED
Due to the effect of COVID-19, and following the guidelines and recommendations of the World Health Organization and the respective authorities of each country and region, the following art fairs have been postponed:
CHILE - THE POETICS OF WASTE REUNITES CLAUDIO CORREA AND SEBASTIÁN PREECE
Part of the transformations that the visual arts have had in Chile is what curator Pía Cordero seeks to show through the works of Claudio Correa and Sebastián Preece, who meet again since March 12 at the AFA Gallery in Santiago
Ch.ACO 11 - THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR OF CHILE
The eleventh edition of the fair will be open to the general public from March 27 to 29. It will be in Parque Bicentenario, where there will be more than 40 exhibitors from 16 countries and a conversations program. In addition, it will have a gastronomic zone.
LATIN AMERICAN MASTERS - HOMAGE TO ARNALDO ROCHE IN CALIFORNIA
“The groundwork for a new way of conceiving culture and the individual is at stake in Roche’s paintings”, which will be the center of an homage Latin American Masters will host for Arnaldo Roche.
MADRID: THE JUAN MARCH FOUNDATION EXHIBITS A VERY SPECIAL GROUP OF NORTH AMERICAN ARTISTS
On March 6, the Juan March Foundation inaugurates Los irascibles: pintores contra el museo (Nueva York, 1950 [The irascibles: painters against the museum (New York, 1950)].
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BUENOS AIRES PRESENTS A TRIBUTE EXHIBITION OF HUGO RODRÍGUEZ
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) presents, together with the recently created Luis Felipe Noé Foundation, the exhibition Hugo Rodríguez. Sculptures, which will open on Wednesday March 4th and can be seen until March 15.
CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT PRESENTS “THE TEARS OF EROS: MOESMAN, SURREALISM AND THE SEXES”
Until the end of May, the Centraal Museum Utrecht in The Netherlands, holds an exhibition of surrealist art from then and now, and highlights the painting’s expressive and liberating characteristic regarding that which remains unspoken of.
