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Gachi Prieto announces the openning of "Vertigo", individual exhibition of Lorena Marchetti, curated by Javier Villa, on Friday, September 1 from 7 pm. In the new space of the gallery, Uriarte 1373, Palermo, Buenos Aires.

This 13^th posting presents the exhibition La Raza at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park, featuring the photographic archive of La Raza, the Los Angeles newspaper central to the Chicano Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. W. Richard West, Jr., President and CEO of the Autry announced: “It is especially momentous to present this photographic archive—one that continues to resonate today—as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, further underscoring the influence of the Chicano Movement and its artists on the cultural and societal fabric of the American West.”

The LACMA of Los Angeles presents the multidisciplinary exhibition A universal history of infamy for which commissioned the Argentine artists Zinny-Maidagan, part of the staff of Henrique Faria Buenos Aires and New York, the intervention of the facade of the institution.

Josefina Guilisasti presents Resilient, an installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, continuing  with her research into time and material based objects,  within the context of the exhibition A Universal History of Infamy, curated by Jose Luis Blondet.

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by US Detroit-based artist Hernan Bas inspired by the lore and romanticism of life at Cambridge.

As part of the France-Colombia 2017 program, the two French contemporary art centers of La Villa du Parc and La Halle des Bouchers are pleased to host the first solo shows in France of two major artists from Colombia’s art scene, Danilo Dueñas in Annemasse and Juan Fernando Herrán in Vienne.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (MACBA) and the Center for Artistic Research (CIA) present its Jornadas de la Nueva Critica, which will take place from August 24 to 27 in the museum.

The Hammer Museum announced the appointment of Allegra Pesenti as Associate Director and Senior Curator of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Figari Museum in Montevideo presents Jesualdo: The word Mágica, a collective exhibition of eleven contemporary artist’s reflection on education based on the pedagogical work of Jesualdo.

The 9.99 Gallery is pleased to present Darío Escobar / Órbitas imperfectas (Darío Escobar / Imperfect Orbits). The show gathers circular and elliptical pieces that refer to the trajectories that planets draw around the sun. When pondering about these orbits, Escobar suggests the breaking of the ellipsis, which then allows a more dynamic and complex form in space.

New York - A wall will go up in Washington Square Park on Sept. 7, but come down by the end of the day.

This twelfth posting will continue to inform our online readers of the unprecedented exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA that offers thematically linked exhibitions and programs in a four-month-long, region-wide exploration of Latin American and Latino Art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Following its presentation at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (November 2017–February 2018). This exhibition was organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The following is from the museum’s press release.

Equilibrium invites viewers into the rigorous working process of pioneering Colombian-born artist Fanny Sanín. Known for her colorful geometric abstract compositions, Sanín makes between four and eighteen carefully composed preliminary works for each finished painting.

Uruguayismos (Segundo Tiempo) is the first collective exhibition in Lima of Uruguayan artists Pablo Conde, Paola Monzillo, Martín Sastre and Pablo Uribe with curatorship of Manuel Neves, which opens on Thursday, August 10 at 7:30 pm in Galería Del Paseo | Lima.

Cecilia Brunson Projects announces the opening of an exhibition of a unique and rarely seen early sound mural by the renowned Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto.

Lo que sucede aquí, no se queda aquí, is an installation of the Peruvian artist José Carlos Martinat that occupies the room of Carmen Araujo Art, made in alliance with the Revolver Gallery, Lima, Peru. The installation is thematically linked to the collective exhibition "Visual Onomatopoeias of Hard Times" currently exhibited in the house of Hacienda La Trinidad Cultural Park.

Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery presents Horizon of Event, the new exhibit of Tomás Saraceno in Argentina, after his successful experience in the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires.

With this eleventh posting, I continue to inform our online readers of the unprecedented exhibition Pacific Standard Time: LALA that offers thematically linked exhibitions and programs in a four-month-long, region-wide exploration of Latin American and Latino Art in dialogue with Los Angeles. The below is the press release from the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis. 

Lumen, an immersive, interactive installation by Jenny Sabin Studio, is on view in MoMA PS1’s courtyard through September 4. The structure evolves over the course of the day, with responsive textiles that display subtle color in sunlight and emit glowing light after sundown. 

The Met Museum will exhibit a monumental work of the famous painter of the XVII century Cristobal de Villalpando. Newly restored, this 28-foot high masterpiece will leave Mexico for the first time

 Rolf Art announces the new individual exhibition of the Argentine artist Francisco Medail, titled "Photographs 1930 - 1943". With the curatorship of Veronica Tell, the exhibition can be visited from Wednesday August 1 to September 29, 2017.

Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz has been awarded the II Photography Prize Madame Figaro-Rencontres de'Arles, for the exhibition she presented at this international photo event that began on July 3, the museum of the Jeu De Paume reported.

Jean Paul Zelada, outstanding Peruvian visual artist, presents at La Galeria  the individual exhibition titled Total Indiferencia. This exhibition -novena in its trajectory- is conformed by a series of ten oil paintings of great format.

Renowned Belgian-born German artist Carsten Höller will lead the Villa Iris Visual Arts Workshop due to take place in Santander between September 4 and 15.

BAphoto with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation presented the first activity of Federal Impulse, a new proposal belonging to the extension program of the fair. With the aim of stimulating the interest and the diffusion of the Argentine photography towards new audiences a series of educative activities are being carried out in different provinces of the Argentine Republic.

Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas is my tenth posting. The exhibition is one of three that includes Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (5^th posting) and Photography in Argentina: Contradiction and Continuity (9^th posting). The three exhibitions are organized by the Getty, which is publishing three catalogues covering a diverse body of Latin American material culture and artwork by artists working in concrete or neo-concrete languages in postwar art in Argentina and Brazil to contemporary photographers capturing life today to luxury arts of the ancient Americas. The Getty is presenting work that deepens the fields of art history, conservation, and Latin American history. 

The Museum of Art Patricia & Phillip Frost FIU celebrates this summer the art of Mexican photography with two exhibitions: Becoming Mexico: Manuel Carrillo's Photography and Possible Worlds: Photography and Fiction in Mexican Contemporary Art.

Next Thursday, July 13, In the Beginning, the first exhibition of work by Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) to be held in Argentina, will open at MALBA. Curated by Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), this exhibition of one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century brings together over one hundred photographs produced by the artist between 1956 and 1962, the period when she developed the themes central to her oeuvre and her singular vision, which attempted, as the artist herself put it, to register “divineness in ordinary things.” The exhibition is the first collaboration between The Met and any institution in Argentina.

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired an original model of the Fiat 500F “Berlina,” commonly referred to as the Cinquecento.

For the first time, a large solo exhibition on the internationally renowned artist Tomás Saraceno (born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is to be held in Switzerland. Curated by Sabine Schaschl, the exhibition could be visited until 3 September 2017.