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From the argentinian context, the National Museum of Fine Arts acquired the work by Graciela Sacco "Endangered extinct: Passion" a blueprint for refrigerator 1994 (Rolf Art Gallery), the Malba joined his collection a Margarita Paksa´s work (Document -Art Gallery), the video "Give Face" by Jose Alejandro Restrepo (Gallery Ignacio Liprandi) and two vintage photographs by Annemarie Heinrich (Galeria Vasari).

The recent appointment of the internationally acclaimed historian and curator Agustín Pérez Rubio (Valencia, Spain, 1972) as Artistic Director of MALBA is an event of great importance, since it ratifies a new era of the museum.

The Museum of Art ­ + Design, from Miami Dade College (MDC) will present the most recent art Project by William Córdova, graduated from MDC, in the inaugural exhibition of Swing/Sapace/Miami, at the Freedom Tower, Historic National Monument.

The indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary artists will be explored by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition “Beyond the Supersquare”, on view May 1, 2014 through January 11, 2015.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the selection of 45 artists and artist collaboratives from 16 countries to be included in the inaugural edition of SITElines, SITE Santa Fe’s new biennial exhibition series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas.

From June 13 through October 1, 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, which marks the second phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.

As part of the XXI Sessions for the Study of Images, the Centro Cultural 2 de Mayo, CA2M, Madrid, is organizing the Symposium: "Monstrous Compositions.

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.