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May is always an important month in the art market in Buenos Aires, even in these special times. As part of the opening of exhibitions in art galleries and special appointments in the auction rooms, Hilario has organized an auction reaffirming its style: a diverse set, highly selected and meticulously studied, with each work accompanied by its corresponding analysis. Bid closing: Wednesday, May 12, from 6.30 p.m. (Argentina)

The highlighted galleries are: Galeria Nara Roesler (São Paulo / New York) and Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo / New York / Brussels) for their participation in Frieze NY at The Shed, and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (São Paulo) and Galeria Marilia Razuk (São Paulo) at Frieze Viewing Room, which will run until May 14, 2021.

Frieze, the first in-person fair in New York since the pandemic, will take place until May 9 at The Shed (Manhattan). It brings together more than 100 world-leading galleries from the US and abroad, in addition to Online Viewing Rooms and other digital programs and projects.

The Cuban artist has been named as the recipient of the $50,000 Pérez Prize for 2021. The award, funded by Jorge and Darlene Pérez, was announced at the annual Art of the Party fundraiser for the county’s public art museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, also supported by the Pérez family. The event raised over $500,000 for arts education.

The exhibition A Year with Children 2021 will showcase selected artworks by New York City public-school students in second through sixth grade who participated in Learning Through Art (LTA), the Guggenheim’s pioneering education program.

BUENOS AIRES - Después de Babel.Traducciones rioplantenses (After Babel. River Plate Translations) addresses the issue of colonialism and independence from the linguistic point of view. Understanding translation as a practice and a tool, the focus is no longer on communication and a panorama of grays and misunderstandings opens up that serves to illustrate and explain the syncretism of European and American cultures. Through this magnifying glass, the exhibition visits the past and understands the globalized present to imagine possible futures of identities and cultural exchanges.

The national representation at the Brazilian Pavilion dialogues with the overall theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021, How Will We Live Together? Curated Arquitetos Associados and Henrique Penha, the exhibition is realized by the Fundação Bienal in partnership with the Special Secretariat for Culture.

With curatorship by Nathalia Lavigne, this group exhibition, deals with a notion of disappearance reflecting how such a practice can be interpreted as a strategic attitude in the current context. The show features works by Aleta Valente, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Nino Cais, Regina Parra, Sallisa Rosa and Thiago Honório.

OpenFile - video cycle where artists describe their works and elaborate on their artistic processes. This week, Marcelo Brodsky, an Argentine visual artist represented by the Rolf Art gallery, details his relationship with archival photography.

Mad Dog Jones’ REPLICATOR, a unique, multi-generational NFT, sets new auction record for a living Canadian artist.

This exhibition is the result of one of the most important investigations that the Museum has carried out, with which it is committed to honoring and sharing the enormous legacy of Alberto Greco with society.

This is Part I of a three-part collective exhibition, two years in the planning, that celebrates the twenty year anniversary of Art@Work. It showcases paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, photographs and video from female artists in the collection. Originally scheduled for December 2019 but delayed by unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition  features sixty four artworks, including fourteen videos shown looped on three screens.

At La Casa Encendida, the artists David Horvitz (Los Angeles, 1982) and Javier Cruz (Madrid, 1985) exhibit a dialogue of objects and sound that proposes to alter our conception of space and time.

Open to the public from March 12 to June 13, 2022, this major international contemporary art event under the title rīvus will be articulated through a series of conceptual wetlands and imagined ecosystems populated by artworks, public programs, experiments, research and activisms, following the currents of meandering tributaries that expand into a delta of interrelated ideas.

The Patio Herreriano Spanish Contemporary Art Museum in Valladolid presents a group exhibition conceived as a critical essay against the hegemonic perspective that the 1980s was the most interesting period in contemporary Spanish painting.

The Reina Sofía National Museum Center of Arts in Madrid presents for the first time the artwork of Swedish artist Charlotte Johannesson. Combining textile art and digital design, Johannesson's work is a key precedent for contemporary digital art and feminist artistic production.

After one year in lockdown, literally "at home," Garagem Sul announces At Home, a pre-pandemic exhibition which demonstrates that architects have been long debating and experimenting with how and where we live. Curated by Margherita Guccione, Pippo Ciorra, André Tavares and Sérgio Catumba

The festival, which takes part at various of the city's exceptional heritage sites, has been a major influence in disseminating the best of world photography. This year, Rolf Art exhibits “Rethink Everything: the power of art in times of isolation” with curatorship by Andrea Giunta and the collaboration of Julieta Tarraubella and Florencia Rugiero.

Within the framework of the MadBlue festival and quoting the Pixies' song, the artist from Madrid intervenes in the Casa Encendida with thirteen paintings that reproduce the phrase Where is my mind? in nautical alphabet.

Two years after the announcement of her appointment, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires reports that Gabriela Rangel will leave her position as Artistic Director of the museum as of June, in the framework of an unprecedented international crisis marked by the pandemic.

Olafur Eliasson presents site-specific installation Life at the Beyeler Foundation. Conceived to reflect on the relationship between culture and nature, the artwork is one of the artist's most daring pieces.

The Pinta Group, directed by Diego Costa Peuser, and their respective fairs, both Pinta Miami and BAphoto, introduced a series of videos in which the artists presented their works. This time, the Madrid-based artista represented by the Ponce+Robles gallery talks about his painting and artistic endeavor.

As part of the centenary birth of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum of the same name in Madrid is inaugurating a series of exhibitions in his honour. Free admission until 18 April.

The Reina Sofía Center of Art National Museum presents a collective exhibition dedicated to contemporary Moroccan artistic production. In recognition of the influence that the countries of the southern shores of the Mediterranean have on Western culture, Moroccan Trilogy. 1950-2020 is the first project in the museum's decolonial research programme.

For centuries, noon has been considered a most forbidding hour, the time when shadows shorten and specters emerge. Regarding this theme, the exhibition features seven large-scale works by internationally acclaimed artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, conceived during a four-year collaboration with the museum.

The twenty-eighth edition of the contemporary art fair Estampa opened yesterday and is the centre of attention of the Spanish cultural scene and market: new chapter post-pandemic?

In celebration of Riveros’ (Colombian) contributions to geometric abstraction in Latin America, the Foundation exhibits drawings, paintings, and sculptures in “Abstracción Eterna” (Eternal Abstraction), along with a never-before-done mural. Until August 28, the show features one of the most important living abstract geometric artists in Colombia.

The Galería Elvira González presents a solo exhibition by the Spanish artist Chema Madoz: games to understand objects, visual aphorisms to interpret the world of things.

The Colombian artist (Bogota, 1978), of international renown, participates in the group exhibition “Off the Record” held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.

Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma inaugurated a group exhibition that reflects on the notions of frontier and defence. The work of artists such as Tommaso Realfonso and Master of the Conquest of Mallorca dialogue with the work of contemporary artists such as Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona 1942), Mounir Fatmi (Tangier, 1970), the duo Mª Jesús González Fernández (Valencia, 1978) and Patricia Gómez Villaescusa (Valencia, 1978), and Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo, 1986).