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Adrian Villar Rojas Awarded with the Benesse Prize During the Venice Biennial
Adrian Villar Rojas presented The Murderer of Your Heritage, his last installation specially created for the 54th Venice Biennial, and won the 9th Benesse Prize.
James Cuno Named as New President and Director for the J. Paul Getty Trust
The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that James Cuno, has been named president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Melanie Smith is Representing Mexico at the 54th Venice Biennial
Melanie Smith (Poole, England, 1965) is representing Mexico, where she lives and works since 1989, at the 54th Venice Biennial with her show Red Square Impossible Pink.
Clemencia Labín´s Collective Art Project at the 54th Venice Biennial
The New York Times refers to Clemencia Labin’s work in the following terms: “The Venezuelan pavilion was invigorated by actual performances by Clemencia Labin and two films about her colourful, creative and inclusive arts festival founded in 2000.
CIFO Announces its Museum & Curator Network
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is proud to announce the redesign of the www.cifo.orgwebsite. The new website includes features and functions that allow CIFO to fulfill its mission of promoting art from Latin America on a global scale.
Fernando Prats´ "Gran Sur" Project at the 54th Venice Biennial
Fernando Prats installed his Project “Gran Sur” (Great South) in the Arsenals of the ancient city, the most visited place during the 54th Biennial di Venezia (Venice Biennial) that will be extended until November 27th, 2011.
Crisisss. Art and Confrontation in Latin America
I still do not know of a postmodern poverty. Independently of globalization and decentralization, poverty continues to be the same thing, Gerardo Mosquera remarks at the end of his introduction for the book Beyond the Fantastic.
Camnitzer:
In Luis Camnitzer’s view, suspiciousness – that way of suspecting or mistrusting − configures a method of creation that takes the tools of conceptual art to a borderline, where it inquires into the contemporary art system as a whole and into its methods to project itself in relation to the economic and institutional structures that control it.
Blanton Museum
Asource of pure aesthetic enjoyment, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the Rojas Cultural Center of the 1990s leaves the visitor with a feeling of spiritual lightness.
The Silence of the Voice
Gervasio Sánchez’s (Córdoba, 1959) exhibition, Desaparecidos, curated by Sandra Balsells and based on an original project by Rafael Doctor Roncero, has been simultaneously hosted by the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), la Casa Encendida, Madrid., and the MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León).
Venice in Venice, Curated by Jacqueline Miro and Tim Nye
Foundation 2021 has inaugurated Venice in Venice, an ambitious exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia, in celebration of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980,
Enrique Ježik at the MUAC in Mexico City
The exhibition Enrique Ježik: Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal, at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, MUAC, in Mexico City, displays
for the very first time an extensive review of the works and projects of an artist that has played a key role in the narrative of Mexican contemporary art.
The Spring of Latin American Art in Sotheby’s & Christie’s
"Throughout the evening sale we saw results that were consistent with the estimates we set, with strong prices achieved for Rufino Tamayo, Fernando Botero, Wifredo Lam, Joaquín Torres-García and many others…"
Leonora Carrington Passing on the Global Press
Important papers from the entire world covered the death of Leonora Carrington, but the recognition that they give –as usual with the great Latin American masters- is restricted.
MOCA Call Artists for Optic Nerve XIII Showcase
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is seeking film and video submissions for the 13th edition of Optic Nerve, the museum's popular film and video showcase for emerging artists.
ArteBA 2011 in its 20th Anniversary
From 19 to May 23 it develops the twentieth edition of ArteBA Contemporary Art Fair, which has been consolidated in this period as one of the most important exhibition platforms in Latin America.
Base-Paint: Exhibition-Auction for Haiti.
The event Base Paint: The Auction at IdeoBox Artspace will open to the public on Wednesday, May 25. This innovative Exhibition-Auction sponsored by Saludarte Foundation, Manos del Sur Foundation, the Step by Step Foundation and Ideobox Artspace.
Spain Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale
The piece L’Inadeguato, Lo Inadecuado, The Inadequate of the artist Dora Garcia will be presented in the Spain Pavilion, commissioned by Katya García-Antón, in the next edition of Venice Biennale.
The Galerie Beyeler is Closing:
In accordance with the testamentary wishes of Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, the Galerie Beyeler at Baumleingasse 9 in Basel is closing. Its holdings will be sold at auction by Christie’s International on 21 and 22 June 2011 in London.
Felipe Zuñiga creates Laboratorio Experimental de Óptica
The haudenschildGarage commissioned visual artist Felipe Zuñiga González to create a program for the students of Guillermo Prieto Elementary School.
MADA: Art, community, and social compromise
Anyone who takes a look at the effervescent art landscape in Miami is confused by the endless number of galleries, the rampant eclecticism, the uneven number of proposals and-more than anything- the lack of a serious systematization that plagues the galleries and the cultural institutions of the city.
Roberto Jacoby at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid
Roberto Jacoby’s (Buenos Aires, 1944) work is characterized by a constant transit from the borderlines of artistic production.
Cuban Visions at the Metropolitan Pavilion
Cuban Visions, one of the largest and more complete exhibitions of contemporary Cuban art to ever show in New York City, opening May 27 at Metropolitan Pavilion as part of city-wide spring celebration ofCuban culture, alongside the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Si Cuba Festival.
[NAME] Publications invites to a workshop with Viking Funeral
[NAME] Publications invites to participate in a free workshop in the space of Artseen in Miami, with Viking Funeral, who is up next in [NAME]’s Miami Artists Series.
Neon Rumbles of War
On April 1st, Y Gallery opened its new space at the Lower East Side with Signs of the Time, a show by Tom Fruin, curated by gallery director, Cecilia Jurado.
El Ranchito /Matadero Madrid - Calling for Residences and Work Spaces for Artists
Matadero Madrid, through its project El Ranchito, is promoting a new open call aimed at facilitating the creation of collaborative networks and fostering artistic production by providing residencies for artists and making work spaces available.
Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes at OPA
The Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes will present at OPA an exhibition conceived specifically for this occasion.
TERCERUNQUINTO Exhibits Otros Fueros
Tercerunquinto was created in 1998 in Monterrey, Mexico and it is composed of Julio Castro, Gabriel Cazares, and Rolando Flores.
Mexican Contemporary Art Scene in Peeping Tom's Digest #2: Mexico
Dedicated to the Mexican contemporary art scene, this second issue of Peeping Tom's Digest presents 50 artists and art initiatives through articles and interviews conducted by some of the most prominent Mexican art figure.
Sao Paulo Biennial Foundation Names Luis Pérez-Oramas as Curator for its 30th Edition
Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York has been named as chief curator for the 30th São Paulo International Biennial. He joined the museum in 2003 as adjunct curator of drawings and assumed his current post in 2006.
FOUNDATION : Juan March
The Juan March Foundation inaugurated in its Madrid headquarters the exhibition “Cold America. Latin American geometric abstraction (1934-1973)”, in order to map, in a fast and systematic way, the complex history of geometric abstraction in Latin America.
The Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist’s wide-ranging career, selected from the Cruz-Diez Foundation Collection at the MFAH, and from major private and public collections around the world.
Fundación Botín Launches a Call
Fundación Botín, a Spanish institution created in 1964, launches a call for a new edition of the Visual Arts Grants and the Art Workshop, to be directed by Paul Graham.
