Notes related to United States
CAROLINA CAYCEDO'S ECOLOGICAL VISION LANDS AT THE KEMPER ART MUSEUM
Growing Deep Roots, curated by Meredith Malone, brings together sculpture, drawings, and video, tracing water stewardship, ecofeminism, and just energy transition.
WHAT WAS BUENOS AIRES' MODERNIST ART SCENE LIKE BETWEEN 1935 AND 1950?
The exhibition at the museum in St. Louis features how exile, exchange, and collaboration in Buenos Aires shaped modern art.
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MICHELE OKA DONER AND JULIA P. HERZBERG – TALISMAN, A SACRED GROVE
Talisman, A Sacred Grove is a natural grove featuring twenty-one different species of trees that support approximately two hundred hand-formed heads, known as Talisman. The grove is installed on Park Avenue mall near the corner of East 66th Street in front of The Park Avenue Armory.
THE MORTON ARBORETUM ANNOUNCES "TREE DIMENSIONS," AN IMMERSIVE ART EXHIBITION IN ILLINOIS
Rommy González presents five large-scale sculptures that invite visitors to enter, explore, and experience trees in unique ways.
THE BAHAMIAN HERITAGE THAT ANINA MAJOR SCULPTS AT PAMM
The Bahamian artist’s most significant institutional presentation in the United States to date transforms the museum’s waterfront gallery into a protective landscape of woven clay, bottle trees, and shells.
LANDMARK OLGA DE AMARAL RETROSPECTIVE DEBUTS AT THE PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION IN ST. LOUIS
Weaving the Infinite brings together 86 works curated by Stephanie Weissberg and will be on view in September.
ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS TRANSFORMS THE ASPEN ART MUSEUM INTO GEOLOGICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL CAVE
First Gods, Lost Animals, curated by Claude Adjil, traces the symbolic systems humans built to navigate a universe that exceeds their cognitive scale.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART RECEIVES NEARLY 50 WORKS FROM THE BEREZDIVIN COLLECTION
The gift by Diana and Moises Berezdivin brings works by Allora & Calzadilla, Rafael Ferrer, Damián Ortega, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, and Rosângela Rennó, among others, to the Washington museum.
FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN TO THE COSMIC: TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ REAWAKENS A DORMANT HOUSTON LANDMARK
After nearly a decade closed, The Menil Collection's Fresco Building reopens with a meditation on spirituality and matter.
FROM RELIGIOUS ICONS TO FLUORESCENT ICONS: DAN FLAVIN AND LIGHT AS EXPERIENCE AT MALBA
Luz, color y espacio, the exhibition presented by the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, offers an experience in which color and space envelop the viewer. It will be open to the public through August 17.
“EXIT INTERVIEW”: BUCHLOH’S CRITICAL LEGACY, NOW IN SPANISH
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.
ALFREDO JAAR INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
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.
MILESTONE FOR SALVADORAN ART: SEVEN WORKS ENTER THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART COLLECTION
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.
MUUS COLLECTION LAUNCHED A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR CURATORS AND ACADEMICS
The New Jersey-based organization opens applications for experimented professionals all over the globe until July 31.
US SCULPTURES AMID CONTROVERSY AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
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.
WIFREDO LAM: “WHEN I DON’T SLEEP, I DREAM” - RETROSPECTIVE AT MoMA
PATRICK CHARPENEL: “CULTURALLY SPECIFIC INSTITUTIONS ARE BREAKING AN INCREASINGLY HOMOGENEOUS PATTERN”
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.
HUMANS, MACHINES, AND POSSIBLE FUTURES: THE LAST 100 YEARS AT NEW MUSEUM
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.
DISPOSSESSIONS IN THE AMERICAS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE COLONIAL LEGACY
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.
ART AGAINST COLLAPSE: 193 ARTISTS IMAGINE ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
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.
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2026, A FIELD DENSE WITH ENCOUNTERS
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.
IS THE ART MARKET FINALLY RECOVERING?
The art maket stabilizes, but the recovery remains uneven.
OFELIA ESPARZA SINCE 1945: MEXICAN TRADITIONS IN CALIFORNIA
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.”
ROBERTO BEHAR & ROSARIO MARQUARDT WIN THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT THE ELLIES OOLITE ARTS AWARDS
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.
ENERGY AND PATTERNS IN THE COSMOS, GISELA COLÓN IN CONNECTICUT
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.
FIVE VIBRANT EXHIBITIONS OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS TO VISIT IN THE U.S. IN 2026
The North American country presents a strong presence of Latin American art on its agenda this year, highlighting both historical and contemporary figures.
NXTHVN OPENS ITS 2026 CALL FOR ARTISTS, CURATORS, AND EMERGING APPRENTICES
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.
DONNA HUANCA INTERVENES IN THE CAAC WITH HER SENSORIAL LANGUAGE
The installation is constructed using the artist's usual practices, where sand, pigments, and translucent curtains come together with cosmology and contemporary languages.
TATIANA BLASS: HALF UNDERGROUND TORNADO
By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher
LAWRENCE LEK'S WORLD IN MIAMI, WHERE MACHINES SEEK MEANING
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.

