The 19th arteBA Contemporary Art Fair will take place between June 25 and 29, 2010 (with pre-openings on June 23 and 24) at the exhibition center La Rural, in Buenos Aires. In the international context, arteBA has already become a prominent reference-point for the Latin American art market and is, with its eighteen years of experience, [...]
By SHELLY BANJO JUNE, 7 2010 Retired real-estate investor and art collector Howard Farber dislikes traveling and politics, doesn’t speak Spanish and spent years resisting Cuban art to focus on his Chinese art collection. After a 2001 trip to Cuba, he says everything changed. Mr. Farber bought a drawing by artist Carlos Estevez to “whet his [...]
Collectors vied for works with proven track records and critical validation By Georgina Adam, Charlotte Burns, Lindsay Pollock and Cristina Ruiz From Art Basel daily edition, 15 Jun 10 Published online 16 Jun 10 BASEL. Art Basel began with a bang yesterday at the preview of the 41st edition of the modern and contemporary fair. As [...]
MFAH SCORES FIRST U.S CARLOS CRUZ – DIEZ STREET INSTALLATION How frustrating is it that the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston doesn’t have permanent exhibition space for one of its major strengths — its Latin American art collection, which includes rich holdings of the work of key figure Carlos Cruz-Diez? A little less frustrating now. [...]
Extract from ‘Angela Bonadies: the whimsical archon’ by Lisa Blackmore A few weeks ago Venezuelan artist Angela Bonadies showed her series Las personas y las cosas in The Private Space in Barcelona, Spain. The show, which was curated by Jesús Fuenmayor, had previously been shown at Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo in 2009 and includes more [...]
Margarita Paksa and Horacio Zabala: ‘Analogies & Differences’ By Holland Cotter MAY, 27 2010 This show pairs small-scale work, mostly on paper, by two Argentine artists little seen in New York. Each grew up in Buenos Aires during years of civic trauma; each has packed responses to a deadly era into the art. Margarita Paksa [...]
Instead of following the market, curators need to provide leadership By David Barrie | From issue 214, June 2010 Published online 11 Jun 10 (opinion) The UK has a long, inglorious history of curatorial insularity when it comes to contemporary art. In the first half of the 20th century our museums and galleries missed countless opportunities [...]
Tate and Pompidou Buy Works at the First Pinta London Art Show Art Daily.com Thursday, June 10, 2010 LONDON.- During the first London Pinta art show, strong sales were seen across the board in a packed Earls Court Exhibition Centre. At this inaugural modern and contemporary Latin American art show, over 2,000 enthusiastic international private and [...]
Art 41 Basel takes place June 16 – 20, 2010. The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are [...]
North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection Last year september 2009, the Museum of fine Art Houston exhibit at the Caroline Wiess Law Building the major Latin American art acquisitions since 2001, with more than 80 works in every medium, ranging in date from the 1920s to the present. North Looks South is [...]