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Frieze have announced the participating galleries for Frieze Masters, the organization’s first art fair for historical art. Frieze Masters will take place 11–14 October 2012 on Gloucester Green, Regent’s Park, London.

The Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, developed the concept for the Manifesta 9 exhibition ‘The Deep of the Modern’.

This fall, Independent Curators International (ICI) is producing the Curatorial Intensive: “Curating Beyond Exhibition Making”, the first short course to offer training to curators on the concepts and logistics of organizing public events, workshops, and other discursive program formats.

Following on from the third edition of PINTA Art Fair, a new wave of Mexican Art is breaking on to the London art scene.

The 7th Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), organised by the Agrupació de Disseny Industrial del Foment de les Arts Decoratives (ADI/FAD), was held in Eivissa (Ibiza) from 14–16 October 1971.

During the first week after the public opening of dOCUMENTA (13), The Artists’ Congresses: A Congress gathers artists and scholars from the fields of art history, philosophy, and cultural studies to address questions related to the history of the artist’s voice.

The Museum of Latin American Art, MoLAA presents Play with Me (June 16 – September 2, 2012) featuring engaging installations that encourage visitors to “touch the art”. The exhibition explores the interactive potential of contemporary installation art.

Pinta London 2012’s panorama revealed a broad creative horizon not only thanks to the inclusion of Iberian and Latin American art, but also as a result of a special convergence of twentieth and twenty-first century geometric art, including conceptual inquiries of Post-Modernism that extend to the present, as well as other trends of contemporary art.

The launching of the book Mario Carreño: obras selectas (1936-1957 ) at the Theater of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, MNBA, in the course of the opening week of the 11th Havana Biennial, marks the beginning of a rereading of the work of the legendary pioneer of Cuban modernism.

Speaking of the 11th Havana Biennial, 11BH, devoted to Artistic practices and social imaginaries, it is not by chance that the word “bridges”, with its multiple meanings, comes to mind: “A structure providing passage, temporary floating crossings, a connection that provides continuity where an electric circuit has been interrupted, the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses, frequent and continuous communication established between two places in order to facilitate the movement of people and merchandises from one to the other; set of installations that are at the service of this cause at an airport:”

PUMA.Creative in partnership with BRITDOC Foundation announced ten new PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award winners.

The new space is connected to the past 18 months of strategic growth for the gallery, evidenced by the addition to its roster of artists such as Idris Khan, Peter Liversidge, Nathan Mabry, Alec Soth, Kehinde Wiley and, most recently, Terence Koh.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s May auction sales in New York exceeded market expectations, confirming the growing importance of the region’s modern artistic production and setting new records.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) announced the opening on April 28, 2012, of the third edition of the San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, El Panal/The Hive, which includes the participation of over 150 local and foreign artists.

" Plataforma Sonora. Treinta relojes de cuerda” by the artist Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974) will be displayed at the central courtyard of the hotel Condesa DF. The public intervention was launched during Zona Maco 2012.

Retaining the concept introduced by Adriano Pedrosa of a south that comprises the entire hemisphere and of practices that involve forms of resistance, the curator of Zona Maco Sur 2012, Patrick Charpenel, broke the linearity in the distribution and reformed the architecture of the area jointly with Luis Aldrete, who adapted the design of the spaces to the works.

The itinerant exhibition “Oscar Muñoz/Protografías”, which ended in March at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia, and will later travel to the Lima Art Museum (Mali), Lima, Peru; to the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; to the Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia, originated at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, and was curated by José Roca and María Wills (adjunct curator).

On May 22 and 23, Christie's Latin American sale will offer an exceptional selection of works by modern and contemporary masters hailing from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and many other regions throughout the Americas.

Tiempo de sospecha: un ejercicio sobre comunicación mediática, sistemas de conocimiento e información (Time of Suspicion: An exercise in Media Communication, Knowledge and Information Systems) at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Mexico City, is an exhibition that navigates how vast networks of information are disseminated through mass media—through the perspective of 35 contemporary artists from Mexico.

One of the most important events concerning Latin American art took place in Houston at the end of January, and it may have gone unnoticed to many people.

No Heroics, Please is the title of a posthumous compilation of short stories written by the American novelist and poet Raymond Carver during his youth, who understood that the value of the writing is within the daily happenings.

For the first time the Conversations Program for Zona Maco. Mexico Arte Contemporáneo 2012 has been organized by Fundación Jumex.

Milagros de la Torre examines notions related to memory, identity, violence, pain and trauma with around forty sober photographs with great objectual qualities in her first monographic in New York.

Matadero Madrid presents the latest artwork from one Spain´s most internationally recognized artist: Fernando Sánchez Castillo Síndrome de Guernica (Guernica Syndrome) is the title of an sculpture created from the Azor, the leisure boat used by the former Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco, and the setting for various historic events such as the “Azor conversations” held between Don Juan de Borbón and Franco himself.

Museo de Arte de Ponce will present a new exhibition initiative called Arte en respuesta / Art in Response. This annual program invites two contemporary artists each year to produce and exhibit new work that engages in a dialogue with Museo de Arte de Ponce’s world renowned European art collection.

Over 120 pairs of tables placed one on top of the other and separated by a block of earth, from which sprout slim blades of grass: this is Plegaria Muda, the latest project by Doris Salcedo.

Centro Abierto. Site-specific Interventions in Downtown Lima is a public art exhibition that will take place June 8–17, 2012. In recent years a number of initiatives have been undertaken to renovate downtown Lima to a growing metropolis of over 8 million inhabitants.

To die in the places one loves is, in a certain way, to attend that inescapable appointment for which one is perhaps never ready. It was this which rendered so surprising the demise of José Costa Peuser, publisher of Arte al Día México magazine, as a result of an acute heart attack, in the historic downtown area of his beloved Oaxaca, a city that is inseparable from the night of the indigenous soul.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents The War We Have Not Seen, a moving and dramatic exhibition about the turmoil and war that has plagued Colombia for decades. The project was the idea of Juan Manuel Echavarría in an attempt to alter the cultural fabric that has "normalized" the violence in Colombia.

The selection of 23 artist carried out by the curators Cauê Alves, Sonia Becce, Patrick Charpenel, Alexia Dumani, Manuela Moscoso and José Ignacio Roca for the second edition of “Solo Projects: Focus Latin America” may function as an orientation map of artistic practices in the south of the American continent.