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 [...]

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, [...]

    “An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, [...]

    Osvaldo Budet (b. 1979, Puerto Rico) currently living and working in Leipzig/Berlin, fellow of the Leipzig International Art Programme. Growing up in a colony (Puerto Rico) a “Third World” country has made me conscious and curious of the relationships between figures of authority and the powerless. I see my art-practice as an analogy [...]

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 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, [...]

Big Bids Expected From Brazil, Chile By KELLY CROW Newly wealthy Latin Americans emerged as art-world power players during the recession, buoying prices for Mexican icons like Diego Rivera even as prices sank in other corners of the globe. This week, New York’s chief auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s International, will test this market again with [...]

NEW YORK Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Sunday August 26, 2010 Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio. In the late 1960s, Puerto Rican-born Rafael Ferrer became internationally renowned for his guerilla art actions in New York and Philadelphia. In the 1970s, he was known for assemblage sculptures, kayaks, and tents. [...]

By Valentina Tintori Last November 2009 a work of art by Venezuelan artist Cristobal Rojas (1857- 1890) which was estimated at US $ 300,000 – 400,000 was sold for US $ 1,172,500  in Sotheby’s, New York.  It was one of the few pieces that tripled its estimated value that night. La Lectora, 1890 (Woman Reading) was [...]