Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979) and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, film, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness [...]

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 and estimate between $150,000 – 200,000 an Estudio para Coloritmo no. 3 estimated between $ 350,000 – 450,000 [...]

      The Long Beach’s Latin American Art Museum, exhibit the Art work by mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora. It will be open between February 20 to July, 2, 2011. Frágil / Fragile will display his most recent works, focusing on an installation of tables with objects and some works on walls. The [...]

Art Daily .org quoted about the Latin American Art Auction at Sothebys: Frida Kahlo Portrait, Fernando Botero Works to Be Sold at Sotheby’s Auction of Latin American Art     A locket-size self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo       A small self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and a historical paintings and sculptures [...]

Dario Escobar – Side and Back from kamel mennour on Vimeo. Darío Escobar is known for his sculptural recontextualization of everyday objects. Born in Guatemala (1971), his Catholic background and interest in local history became sources of inspiration for a body of work that combines mass-produced objects, craft techniques, and religious iconography. His work is [...]

    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 [...]

Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) is a Brazilian artist. Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.[2] She studied social communication at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso (FACHA), Rio De Janeiro [...]

Cuban born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the collabortive duo Guerra de la Paz . Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti, Guerra De La Paz make their sculptures from the discarded items of daily life. Viewing their practice as [...]

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 [...]

Ana Mendieta (18 November 1948 – 8 September 1985)   Ana Mendieta’s work encompasses the full range of avant-garde practices of the 1970s and 1980s: conceptual art, performance art, body art, earth art, and feminist and identity art. Exiled from her native Cuba at age twelve, she used art as a means of mediating between [...]