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Mercosul Biennial announces curatorial team for the 8th edition
The chief curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial José Roca, has announced the team of curators to work on the curatorial plans for this edition, which is due to take place from September to November 2011, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Carla Zaccagnini: An Installation Around the Sense of Community and Collective Work at MUSAC
On September 18th there will be presented, as an integrating part of the exposition To be constructed by Laboratory 987, Reação em cadeia com efeito variável installation by the Argentine artist resident of São Paulo Carla Zaccagnini.
César Trasobares: A Lecture About His Installation of Rings in Human Rites at Bass Museum
In 1983, Cesar Trasobares began the construction of RINGHEAD (Exorcism from Style)
Argentina in Focus: Cristian Segura / Sergio Vega at the Art Museum of The Americas
With a parrot speaking into a microphone in its galleries, and its facade in flames, the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States announces Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept—Cristian Segura/Sergio Vega.
Sara Modiano, In Memoriam
Artists always die too soon. There are pieces left halfway done, unfinished series, and in cases like the plastic artist Sara Modiano’s, we are left with a feeling that time had not yet given her the acknowledgement that her work deserved.
Announcing Inaguration of In Transition: 2010 CIFO Grants and Commissions Exhibition
CIFO announces the inauguration of In Transition, its 2010 Grants and Commissions Programs exhibition on view from September 3rd through November 7th at the CIFO Art Space.
The Toledo´s Inform: Arte, Life and Political Context in the Vision of Francisco Toledo
The series of fifteen prints Francisco Toledo made on account of Franz Kafka's Report For an Academy
Dialogue Among Art and Pedagogy in Two Parallel Exhibitions at the MUAC: Beuys and Mario Rangel Faz
The University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in association with Deutsche Bank presents an exhibition on teachers and their students.
Danilo Dueñas Won the DAD Fellowship in Visual Arts
Danilo Dueñas has been awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin (2011-2012). He is the first Colombian artist to receive this international honor.
Coca-Colonized: Relationship Among Mass Culture and Art From on Developing Regions
Hilger BrotKunsthalle from Vienna, Austria, is pleased to announce the opening of Coca-colonized* curated by South African-born curator Claire Breukel and featuring nine artists from South America, Central America and Africa.
Dislocation: Chilean and European Artists Confront Contemporary Chilean History
Dislocation, a project that includes exposition dynamics, the meeting and exchange between contemporary Swiss and Chilean artists in an international path.
José Roca Named Chief Curator for the 8th Mercosul Biennial
The curator José Roca is to be chief curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, set to take place in Porto Alegre from September to November 2011.
São Paulo Biennial, 2010. Curatorial visions from the 29th edition
The concept of this year's São Paulo Biennial (September 25 - December 12) anchored on the notion that it is impossible to separate art from politics.
Pictorial Exposition of Women in the Mexican Revolution
"Adelitas", women soldiers and coronels make up the collective exposition “Women in the Revolution”, which is being exhibited at the Regional Museum of Art.
Presence of Central American and Caribbean artists in the XXXI Biennial in Pontevedra.
In an article by David Barro published by El Mundo, about the XXXI Biennial in Pontevedra which is made up of many locations (Pontevedra, Vigo y Vilagarcía).
The collective Viernes transformed “El 52”, the new emergent space of OMR, in an aviary
The Gallery OMR opened "El 52" a new space next to its habitual place, in which projects of emerging artists are shown.
1st International Triennial of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo 2010 (TRIC 2010)
Supported by the statement "Santo Domingo, Cultural Capital of America 2010," and in an effort to develop international cultural presence, the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture, through the Museo de Arte Moderno, undertakes the celebration of the "1st International Triennal of the Caribbean in Santo Domingo 2010."
The Exposition of Collective Euro-American Photographics, E.CO, starts its international journey in Sao Paulo
The exposition has been installed in the Cultural Center Sao Paulo of Brazil (www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br), where it will be opened until the 25 of August.
The Fantastic Zoology by Francisco Toledo at Instituto Cervantes in New York
In 1953, Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero published the first bestiary from the universal imagination: Fantastic Zoology.
Study of Latin American Art at Hunter College Transformed with Major Gift from Fundacion CPPC
Hunter College has entered into a major partnership with the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) that will have a transformative impact on the teaching and development of Latin American art at Hunter.
FOUNDATION YPF: Arte en la Torre.
After an absence from the Buenos Aires art scene of at least ten years, during which time she lived and worked mainly abroad, in March of the present year Graciela Sacco (Argentina, 1956) presented M2 (Square Meter)
Gyula Kosice
Located in the legendary neighborhood of Almagro, the Gyula Kosice Workshop and Museum gathers together a considerable number of its founder’s works, belonging to all the phases of his prolific artistic trajectory.
Solar Equation, from Lozano-Hemmer at the Federation Square in Melbourne
Rafael-Lozano Hemmer, one of the most recognized Mexican contemporary artists is presenting a public art installation, featuring an animated three-dimensional maquette of the Sun.
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Miami Art Museum Names Thomas “Thom” Collins As Director
Thomas “Thom” Collins, an arts administrator, art historian, educator and author with more than 15 years of experience serving as a director and curator at several of America’s top museums, has been named as the new director of Miami Art Museum (MAM).
Javier Marin’s contemporary sculpture in the Basilica Cathedral of Zacatecas
The Basilica Cathedral of Zacatecas, which has been declared cultural patrimony of humanity by the UNESCO, is home to the piece “Retablo” by the artist Javier Marin’s in collaboration with Gantous Architects since June 2010.
Mariano Molina Brings a Dash of Intuition to Leading Bioengineering Research
The Argentinean artist Mariano Molina has exchanged his studio for the corner of an engineering lab.
De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space present a new installation with works by Kuitca from 1986 to 1998.
Memory and loss are an integral part of Guillermo Kuitca's work. His paintings reference personal memories that are staged and show his interest for architecture and topography.
ARCO´s Turning Point under Carlos Urroz
ARCO’s new director, Carlos Urroz Arancibia, acknowledged that he assumed his new job during some of the fair’s most difficult times, and that in order to restructure it no exterior models could be followed.
Optical Geometric Art Master Omar Rayo Dies in Colombia
The painter, engraver, and sculptor Omar Rayo, the pillar figure of geometric abstraction in Colombia passed away on Monday the 7 of june in the city of Cali.
Pinta London : A Complete Success
During the first London Pinta art show, strong sales were seen across the board in a packed Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
Art&Soul Online Auction for Haiti
Twenty-one of the 49 wonderful pieces donated for the Tigertail & Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance Art & Soul fundraising party silent auction were unsold at the event's end.
