An important new exhibit opens at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Los Angeles on September 18, 2011.   Curated by Rubén Ortiz-Torres in association with Jesse Lerner, the exhibition MEX/L.A.: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985, focuses on the construction of different notions of “Mexicanidad” within modernist and contemporary art in Los Angeles. The [...]

  Miami, (August 5, 2011) – Magdalena Fernández’s video installation, 2iPM009, brings Geometric Abstraction to a new level of expression. During the past decade the Venezuelan-born artist (1964) has developed a body of kinetic sculptures and videos, the latter incorporates sound and movement of lines and colors. In 2iPM009, Fernández incorporates very sophisticated sound compositions [...]

Update: Amelia Peláez at MoMA, Pablo Milanés in NYC, Adrian Fernandez in Houston PUBLISHED by www.cubanartnews.org Sep,8 2011   Amelia Peláez at MoMA. In her review of the Museum of Modern Art’s new installation of its permanent collection, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith singled out a vibrant painting by Amelia Peláez. Located in what [...]

Venezuelan-born Luis Pérez-Oramas will be responsible for the 30th São Paulo International Biennial to be held in 2012. Pérez-Oramas is expected to begin working as soon as the appointment is made public, putting together the curatorial team that will accompany him in the process of organizing the Biennial. The curator will be also responsible for [...]

LATIN AMERICAN ART LOVERS Diane and Bruce Halle Arizona; Colorado; Mexico TIRES (DISCOUNT TIRE COMPANY) Latin American art and contemporary sculpture     Ella Fontanals Cisneros Miami; Madrid; Gstaad INVESTMENTS AND REAL ESTATE Contemporary art; geometric abstraction from Latin America     Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros Caracas, Venezuela; New York MEDIA, [...]

By Anny Shaw | From Armory daily edition, 4 Mar 11 Published online 4 Mar 11 Edited by Valentina Tintori Artists love it as a medium, but are collectors and dealers too busy for time-based work at an art fair?   Collecting video art Despite the relatively recent popularity of videos at art fairs, there are [...]

By Valentina Tintori April, 2011     Carlos Cruz Diez (1923), Alejandro Otero (1921 – 1990) and Soto (1923 – 2005) leaders of geometric abstraction movement, present  in the evening auction at Sothebys NY this May 25. Tablón 56 with an estimate between $150,000 – 200,000, Estudio para Coloritmo no. 3 estimated between $ 350,000 – [...]

By Valentina Tintori March 27,12011     “For a work to be what we call a work of art, it must generate an idea, perhaps another work,” Liliana Porter once observed, thus delineating the sphere of her production as the possibility of an ever-recurring cycle: a reality that produces a fiction that produces a reality, [...]

    Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso “Nous nous sommes trouvés” Grand Palais, Galeries nationales 16 March 2011 – 6 June 2011 An exhibition organised by the Rmn-Grand Palais as part of 2011 Année des Outre-mer. It takes place under the patronage of Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic. It will subsequently be shown [...]

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 [...]