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The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents “Darío Escobar: Broken Circle”, the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles of the acclaimed Guatemalan artist.

“I have never been strictly abstract or strictly figurative. What I have always been is strictly Oswaldo Vigas”. This quote by one of the key figures of Latin American modernity, who was born in Valencia, Venezuela in 1926, and who died this past 22 of April at 88 years old in his country of origin, defines what was his existence and, within it, the entirety of a great and powerful creative journey that resists classification.

Saludarte Foundation, in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes, University of Miami, and the National Media Museum (UK), is pleased to announce “Uprooting Architecture” exhibition series, that will be presented from April to December 2014 at the Foundation space in Wynwood (Miami), curated by Roc Laseca.

Demonstrating the artist's remarkable ability to transform materials and their surrounding architecture into an enveloping perceptual experience, “Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below” combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.

Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art is presenting a new sculptural installation that will be on view until April 20ht: “This Land Is Your Land” by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting “Karina Chechik : Architectures of Light” , curated by Francine Birbragher.

The Museum of Modern Art presents a major retrospective devoted to the art of Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920–1988), the first comprehensive exhibition in North America of her work.

The Cintas Foundation is probably best known for the fellowship it grants every year to architects, writers, music composers and visual artists of Cuban origin.

Taking its title from the prehistoric landmass that conjoined Africa and Latin America, this major survey -“Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America”- at Saatchi Gallery, reunites the two former sister continents by bringing together the work of 16 of their contemporary artists.

“Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978”, curated by Harper Montgomery, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art, and the historic installation “Citrus 6906” by Héctor Fuenmayor are on display at Hunter College.

The Aspen Art Museum (AAM) announces the selection of renowned contemporary artist Ernesto Neto as the recipient of the museum’s 2014 Aspen Award for Art.

Until April 20, 2014 applications from all galleries of Chile and other countries that wish to be part of the show will be received. The organization will evaluate each of the spaces and give their verdict through www.feriachaco.cl

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s finest museums, seeks a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

The decade and a half that followed 1952 was a time of flourishing intellectual and artistic activity in Mexico. Based on extensive historical and archival research, Defying Stability offers a polyhedral vision of a decisive period in cultural modernity that cannot be encompassed by the reductive concept of so-called “Rupture”.

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Bending the Grid. Luis Cruz Azaceta: Dictators, Terrorism, War and Exiles”, a major survey exhibition of paintings by a leading Cuban-American artist exploring political and social issues through formal experimentation.

Brazilian artist Regina Silveira presents a site-specific intervention for the crystal cube of the lobby of Museo Amparo, where through visual metaphor she transforms and re-signifies this space.

As part of the Art Center South Florida exhibition´s program, the Richard Shack Gallery is presenting “In His Own Likeness/ A su imagen y semejanza” , a show that primarily reaffirms existence, which in its diversity and complexity, is equally divine.

The city of Cartagena has strong connections to cinema, music, dance and traditional artisanal crafts and this first edition of the biennial honors these cultural manifestations while introducing both national and international contemporary perspectives.

In its 10th year, Marte Contemporary at MARTE Museum in San Salvador announces an exciting expansion. Founded with the support of Miami-based collector Mario Cader-Frech, Marte Contemporary attracted the eye of friend and supporter, curator Claire Breukel who jumped at the opportunity to be the first formal Chief Curator, assisted on the ground by Program Manager Lucas Arévalo.

Enrique Martínez Celaya, a renowned Cuban-American artist based in Miami, is presenting his first exhibition at Gallery Andersson/Sandström in Umea, Sweden.

México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ranks as the largest exhibition of contemporary Mexican art in the U.S. in over a decade.

“The Progress Dysfunction” gathers together a selection of works from the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) holds in conjunction with others from Reina Sofía Museum. Two public collections separated by just a few kilometers away.

In September 2014, Christie’s Education New York will launch a unique new master’s degree program called “Global Contemporary Art,” focused on preparing students for careers in the constantly evolving contemporary art marketplace.

Museo Tamayo will present on February 8th at 1:00pm the performance “Studies of Space within Space; of Other Studies, of Other Spaces”, by Galia Eibenschutz, in collaboration with Hans Bryssinck and Víctor Muñoz.

The exhibition, curated by Martí Peran and produced by ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Contemporary Arts Centre of VIC, Barcelona, Spain),Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Centro Cultural Español Miami, CCEMiami, is conceived as a working process combining research and education.

Our sense of contemporaneousness logically implies a relationship of otherness with history, resulting precisely from the fact that our experience is anchored in the present, as opposed to historical events, which involve a notion of the past.

“In order to find life, I had to plunge into a free space, with only one hope: that at its bottom I might find my own voice”. José Gurvich

El troyano/The Trojan is the most personal and intimate book by Andrés Isaac Santana (Cuba, 1973), a critic and essayist who holds a degree in Art History from the University of Havana.

The exhibition “Walking in Someone Else’s shoes (Identities in Transit)” at Aluna Art Foundation in Miami, gathers together a group of contemporary works that revolve around the transhumance as a method, and that reflect the restless landscape of individuals and communities who walk in turbulent times.

Teresa Margolles (Culiacan, Mexico, 1963) focuses on the Mexican social and political context, and how these determine ourselves.

With the firm belief that art can represent freedom of thought without boundaries and promotes self-determination and the free circulation of culture and ideas, the Prize is dedicated to those who harbor the right will to pursue their research beyond the hardship determined by political, social or geographical conditions.

The Argentinian artist who lives in Mexico City realized the intervention Ocupación, in response to the program Fuera de sala, which invites young contemporary artists to intervene in the space of the reading room adjacent to the Documentation Center in Casa Vecina in Mexico City.