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The Museum opened in 1990 with the aim of becoming a leading art institution, in an event that was also the inauguration of the exhibition Memory of the future. Italian art from early avant-garde to post-war. The goals of the museum were to assemble an important collection of modern and contemporary art, to turn into a dynamic center of new tendencies and artists, to develop an academic network of research and education and to act as an active cultural promoter.

Curated by Xue Tan and Sunjung Kim, Wet feet __ dry feet: borders and games brings together three interconnected projects by Francis Alÿs (born 1959 in Belgium and based in Mexico City since the 1980s), widely perceived as one of the most influential conceptual artists of our time.

It’s a major exhibition by the Danish-Icelandic artist, his first in Portugal. In this exhibition, the artist places several large-scale installations both organic and artificial within the museum as well as in the surrounding parkland.

Since 2019, FALFAA has been working on the restructuring of its own database, originally designed by León and FALFAA in 2008, and which today has more than 5,000 works records.

Established in 2011 in Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the center’s mission is to promote wide public knowledge and appreciation of African American culture. Díaz is an experienced leader and community builder within education and the arts.

Titled An Interval of Time and sited at University of Texas’ Jackson School of Geosciences, Bravo’s digital animation weaves together geological data with images of Iceland, Colombia, New Mexico and Colorado, looped across three flat screen displays.

The award was created in tribute to Michael Richards (1963–2001), an incisive, provocative and poetic artist whose body of work primarily addresses racial inequity and social injustice. An Oolite Arts alum, Richards passed away tragically in his art studio in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Aráoz’ solo exhibition Solid Dream was inaugurated virtually on Saturday, October 24, in the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, within the framework of the Museums Illuminate festival organized by RAME (Argentine Network of Museums and Art Spaces)

Since its origins in 1982 in Madrid and 2016 in Lisbon, the ARCO fair has worked for the sustainable development of a market for art in a national context with an international vision; it has enhanced knowledge and learning about art and invented new ways to build bridges between places, people and ideas.

New York- El Museo del Barrio receives the grant award to support the museum's curatorial and education programs, general operations, and $100,000 to support organizational capacity building, particularly in key areas including digital strategies and other needs.

As of November this year, the decision was made by the University of London to shut down the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

From a short list of 6 artist, the recipient of the award will be announced on October 22 on Guggenheim’s Instagram.

The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) has appointed Enguita as the institution’s new director after an international selection process.

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris presents French painter Jean Claracq (born 1991, France), for his first solo exhibition in a museum. Since childhood, Jean Claracq has been fascinated with the history of art, drawing inspiration from mediaeval illumination to photography via Renaissance painting.

At the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Laguna presents both visual and written artworks.

This is the first retrospective in Spain on Bill Brandt (1904-1983), considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Produced by Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Ramón Esparza, the exhibition brings together 186 photographs developed by Brandt himself who, over the course of five decades, made use of almost all the photographic genres: social documentary, portraiture, the nude and landscape.

The Art Museum of Lima organizes an online auction with live broadcast on Saturday, October 17, including a pre-sale until that day.

The fourth exhibition in the Passersby series explores the way in which Anni Albers’s (Germany, 1899 - USA, 1994) trips to Mexico influenced her work in different fields; in addition to outlining the personal and professional relationships forged through this experience. Likewise, the exhibition analyzes her oeuvre and draws parallelisms between modern artistic practices and the ancient and contemporary cultures of America.

BOGOTÁ - The Miguel Urrutia Art Museum (MAMU) reopens its doors to the public with a retrospective of the artist Beatriz González.

 If the object of architecture is, in the first instance, functional, the fact that its dominant criterion is utilitarian does not preclude aesthetic concerns. Thus, the early 20th century witnessed the emergence of the highly influential Modern Movement, with its core principle that “form follows function”, a tenet perfectly exemplified by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus architects – Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer or Mies van der Rohe, among others.

The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The Camp Gallery) in collaboration with Fiber Artists-Miami Association, (FAMA) announces their signature art exhibition to commemorate American women winning the vote.

The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (MCBA) presents a new site-specific installation by Jorge Macchi (born 1963, lives and works in Buenos Aires).

Oxford Properties unveils Dreaming, a landmark three-storey Jaume Plensa Sculpture in the heart of Toronto’s Financial District. The artwork created by the world-renowned Spanish artist marks final stage of the revitalization of the Richmond-Adelaide Centre.

Colección SOLO, a private art collection and international art patronage project based in Madrid (Spain), has announced the winners of its international sound art award, the PowSOLO Awards, a collaboration between Colección SOLO and Powland Network, an Amsterdam-based collective dedicated to promoting sound art.

Curated by Michelle White, this focused presentation of paintings from the late 1960s through the early 1970s is the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Virginia Jaramillo. Characterized by razor-thin undulating lines that dance across monochrome fields of bright and flat color—oxblood, saturated greens, and deep purples—the paintings situate the artist within the most important developments taking place in American abstraction at the time.

The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) announces an upcoming conversation between curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and Argentine painter, sculptor, and theorist César Paternosto, organized in conjunction with the book release of Hans Ulrich Obrist & César Paternosto: Interview. Presented by The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and moderated by Dr. Edward J. Sullivan, this event will illuminate the artist’s groundbreaking career and immense contributions to postwar abstraction. 

How do photographs speak to one another? Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020 traces conversations between images. Some happen between paired or pendant pictures that rely upon one another to convey a shared message; others use the visual rhyme or echoes that reverberate across multiple prints or in montage; still others occur between distinct photographic series that, woven together, deliver new or more complex accounts of the world.

In this edition, Francisco Medail -Artistic Director of BAphoto- moderates a dialogue between 10 Brazilian galleries.

The exhibition, curated by Juan Naranjo, photography historian and independent curator, comprises 110 photographs of the 131 by Paul Strand in the Fundación’s collection, which is the most complete on the artist in any European institution.