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 [...]
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 [...]
Navarro investigates the dark side of light: the symbolic relationship between the electrical currents activating the lighting fixtures that are his sculptural building blocks and the political and social undercurrents of fear that have informed his development. Born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile, Navarro came of age under the repressive dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) [...]
By Maria Brito Dec, 2010 My yearly tradition is to attend Art Basel Miami Beach. The ninth edition of the tropical “baby sister” of the original Swiss fair is actually becoming as important, if not more so, than its European “big sister”. I love everything about Art Basel, the fair and its satellites, as well [...]
ART BASEL GOES BIG BY SUE HOSTETLER N JUST NINE YEARS, Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) has unquestionably become the most influential fair of its kind in the United States. The exhibition boils over with artwork, performance pieces, video projects, design and architecture, special programming and more, attracting fine-art cognoscenti and fans to the city’s [...]
Mary Anne Martin MARY ANNE MARTIN THE WOMAN OF THE LATIN AMERICAN ART MARKET Mary-Anne Martin, a native New Yorker, majored in English Literature at Smith and Barnard Colleges, and did graduate work in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. In 1966, she interrupted her graduate studies to temp as a [...]
by Maria Gainza “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, with one work containing another, [...]
By Maria Brito May, 26 2010 Contemporary art is always a hot topic, but never more so than in the last ten or fifteen years. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest has been the high cost of collecting. The price for top-tier artists was over-the-top for a long period of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]