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NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LATIN AMERICAN ART

NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LATIN AMERICAN ART

Burned Map, Horacio Zabala (Argentinian, b. 1943)1974 Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York By Al Rudis Staff Writer Posted: 03/12/2011 04:25:41 PM PST Updated: 03/12/2011 04:26:09 PM PST   Cecilia Fajardo-Hill wants people to stop thinking of Latin American artists in a special way. But even though she argues that they aren’t [...]

March 11 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

ARTURO HERRERA: Les Noces (The Wedding) AT AMERICAS SOCIETY

ARTURO HERRERA: Les Noces (The Wedding) AT AMERICAS SOCIETY

Watch a video of artist Arturo Herrera and Curator and Americas Society Visual Arts Director Gabriela Rangel discuss the process of putting together the exhibition Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding), at Americas Society art gallery. The artist also gives a tour of selected pieces in the exhibition. Video produced by David Gacs. New York, January [...]

March 8 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

GABRIEL OROZCO’S WORK AT TATE MODERN

GABRIEL OROZCO’S WORK AT TATE  MODERN

Gabriel Orozco, Tate Modern, London EXHIBITION Tate Modern 19 January  –  25 April 2011 (Rated 4/ 5 ) Matters of life and death Reviewed by Laura Mclean-Ferris     The atmosphere of Gabriel Orozco’s exhibition at Tate Modern swings, quite brutally, between play and ponderousness, laughs and tears, lives and deaths. There are chess boards, lumps of [...]

February 26 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

FIRST CUBAN ART MUSEUM OVERSEAS TO OPEN IN VIENNA

FIRST CUBAN ART MUSEUM OVERSEAS TO OPEN IN VIENNA

  Austrian art collector Maximilian Reiss officially opened to the public a museum for contemporary Cuban art in Vienna. The first museum dedicated exclusively to Cuban art outside of Cuba will open to the public in the coming months in Vienna with a show of some 50 paintings and sculptures by the island’s most outstanding [...]

February 22 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

MACBA – MUSEUM ART CENTER BUENOS AIRES

MACBA – MUSEUM ART CENTER BUENOS AIRES

MACBA – Museum Art Center Buenos Aires – is an organization dedicated on promoting Argentinian cultural practices and contemporary artistic expressions. Located in San Telmo, the historic neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, MACBA plans to open its doors on Mars 2012. MACBA Collection consists of a selection of abstract, geometric and contemporary art, however the museum [...]

February 10 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

COLD AMERICA EXHIBITION MADRID JUAN MARCH FOUNDATION

COLD AMERICA EXHIBITION MADRID JUAN MARCH FOUNDATION

Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973) February 11 to May 15, 2011 The exhibition Cold America: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934–1973) sets out to reveal the complex and fragmented history of geometric abstraction in Latin America and the way in which it repositioned and modified European abstraction. Painting, photography, sculpture and architecture are represented [...]

February 2 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

DAROS LATIN AMERICAN ART COLLECTION

DAROS LATIN AMERICAN ART COLLECTION

The Daros Latinamerica Collection of contemporary Latin American art touches ground in Zürich, Switzerland, and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Zürich, the Daros Exhibitions space regularly presents shows from the collection, accompanied by Daros Art Education programmes and other related events. In Rio de Janeiro, a new art centre is being established, the Casa [...]

January 28 2011 | Posted in Museums | Read More »

SUPRASENSORIAL EXHIBITION AT MOCA, L.A

SUPRASENSORIAL EXHIBITION AT MOCA, L.A

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light,Color and Space December 12, 2010-­‐February 27,2011 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles—The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. The exhibition will present Latin America as the source of new ideas about the [...]

January 24 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

CRUZ DIEZ RESTROSPECTIVE AT MFA HOUSTON

CRUZ DIEZ RESTROSPECTIVE AT MFA HOUSTON

MFA Houston and Cruz-Diez Foundation Present First Large-Scale Retrospective of Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez on February 2011 Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist’s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. Houston— September TK, [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER at MOLAA

SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER  at MOLAA

SIQUEIROS PAISAJISTA/ SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER September 12, 2010 – January 30, 2011 The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is proud to join the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. The [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »