Notes related to Estados Unidos

Alias editorial publishes the Spanish translation of the conversation between Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster, conceived as the farewell of one of postwar art criticism's central figures.

The acclaimed Chilean artist joins the institution that brings together the most distinguished figures in architecture, visual arts, literature, and music in the United States.

Works by Beatriz Cortez, Simón Vega, Walterio Iraheta, and Verónica Vides are now part of one of the most important collections in the world, thanks to a donation by collector Mario Cáder-Frech.

The New Jersey-based organization opens applications for experimented professionals all over the globe until July 31.

No formal application, no galleries, and uncertain funding: the artist representing the United States in Venice explores the transformation of matter and the American landscape.

What is a Culturally Specific Institution? Director of El Museo del Barrio for over eight years, Patrick Charpenel reflects on the role of museums in the United States, the visibility of Latinx communities, and the challenges of thinking about art beyond fixed categories and market logics.

The exhibition features more than 15 new commissions by artists such as Ryan Gander, Camille Henrot, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Wangechi Mutu, Hito Steyerl, Alice Wang, and Santiago Yahuarcani, among others.

The exhibition in Chicago brings together 36 Latin American artists who, through more than 40 works, challenge colonial narratives through critical, community-based, and resistance-oriented practices.

Into the Time Horizon, at the Nevada Museum of Art, unfolds as one of the most expansive surveys of environmental art in the United States, combining critical diagnosis with concrete proposals in the face of the climate crisis.

The intergenerational selection traces a sensitive map of practices connected to the United States, where affective, political, and technological ties intertwine through an experimental lens.

The art maket stabilizes, but the recovery remains uneven. 

Inspired by the Amazon rainforest and the Florida Everglades, the project commissioned for the 2026 Whitney Biennial invites players to explore the interconnections between natural ecosystems and technological systems.

The American museum shows a major retrospective of the Chicana artist’s work—an oeuvre that “embodies the power of art to preserve memory and culture.”

The Argentine duo receives the award in recognition of a practice that merges art, architecture, and public space, creating social sculptures that transform the city.

The Latin American artist draws inspiration from the landscapes of Puerto Rico and those of her adopted home in California to create sculptures that reveal the transformative power of nature.

The North American country presents a strong presence of Latin American art on its agenda this year, highlighting both historical and contemporary figures.

Based in New Haven, the organization announces applications for its annual Fellowship Program alongside rolling submissions for its High School Apprenticeship, emphasizing mentorship and intergenerational exchange. Application deadline: March 2, 2026.

The installation is constructed using the artist's usual practices, where sand, pigments, and translucent curtains come together with cosmology and contemporary languages.

The 82nd edition brings together 56 artists and collectives in an exhibition that privileges atmosphere, sensibility, and contemporary forms of coexistence. Within this framework, Latin American artists play a key role, weaving together memory, technology, body, and territory.

By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher

The Bass presents an immersive expansion of the artist's fictional universe, where sentient vehicles confront questions of memory, purpose, and control inside a corporate system designed to repair—and restrain—them.

A leading platform for Ibero and Latin American art, the fair brings together galleries, curators, and emerging talents for a dynamic edition shaped by new voices and cross-regional perspectives.

How new U.S. trade policies are reshaping the movement of art and design, blurring the line between cultural object and commercial good.

The Juan March Foundation in Madrid presents an extensive and analytical exhibition on Robert Rauschenberg (Port Arthur, USA, 1925–Captiva, USA, 2008), focusing on the use of image and photography in his work. The exhibition, structured from a novel curatorial perspective, reinterprets the production of one of the great masters of contemporary art, highlighting it as the outcome of an essentially photographic practice.

An exhibition tracing how generations of artists transformed the postal system into a space for creative freedom and political action, challenging censorship and borders.

By Violeta Lozada

As the global art market recalibrates, a quiet but powerful shift is rising. Collectors are increasingly moving away from multimillion-dollar blue-chip purchases and towards living artists whose work offers emotional resonance, personal connection, and affordability. Cuban painter Eric Alfaro is a standout in this new wave, an artist whose work combines painterly sophistication with accessible pricing and deeply human themes.

By Violeta Lozada

In her solo exhibition ‘Scattered Pieces’, Miami-based artist Luna Palazzolo-Daboul transforms the act of scattering into a meditation on memory, labor, and belonging. Installed in Paradise Plaza (151 NE 41st Street, Suite 133), the site-specific work unfolds across the floor as an archive of fragments, each one a piece of the artist’s evolving journey.

Organized by Pinta in collaboration with Meridian International Center, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – and CC LATAM, the exhibition brings together works by artists from seven countries addressing themes of identity, territory, and memory, reaffirming the value of art as a tool for regional integration.

The curator returns to the city where he began his career to take on the role of Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a vision focused on accessibility and intercultural dialogue.