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MUSUK NOLTE NOMINATED IN Ch.ACO ART FAIR FOR THE EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD
The chosen artwork is Entierro from the DECIERTO series (2011), a digital Print on cotton paper of 80 x 180 cms.
BASEL’S MUSEUM TINGUELY PRESENTS MEXICAN ARTIST PEDRO REYES: RETURN TO SENDER
On view 24 June - 15 November, 2020, the exhibition is curated by Roland Wetzel. It features the upcycling of death instruments into musical instruments
THE SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY PRESENTS IDENTIFY, A WEBINAR WITH MARÍA MAGDALENA CAMPOS PONS AND JEFFREY GIBSON
Join Portrait Gallery curator Dorothy Moss for a conversation with artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Jeffrey Gibson about issues of identity and strategies for reinserting BIPOC histories into museum spaces through live performance and object making. Presented by PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery’s Scholarly Center.
MERCOSUR BIENNIAL REINVENTED: MAKING ART CIRCULATE IN TIMES OF SOCIAL DISTANCE
In order to have its realization made possible in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Biennial 12 Feminine(s): visualities, actions and affects had to be reset in a new way, allowing significant exchanges and reflections even without physical space
TO FIX THE IMAGE IN MEMORY: THE SHIFTING ROLES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE
The Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation presents a 3 classes course that explores the work of Vija Celmins, Liliana Porter and Beatriz González, and which will be imparted by Tobias Ostrander
STERNBERG PRESS AND e-flux PUBLISH LUIS CAMNITZER’S ONE NUMBER IS WORTH ONE WORD
This is the latest title in their series
FRANCIS ALŸS, BASED IN MEXICO, WILL REPRESENT BELGIUM IN THE BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
How do you portray crisis situations in an accessible way? Artist Francis Alÿs and curator Hilde Teerlinck are looking for an answer to this question in the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022.
“THE GAZE AND THE INFINITE RELATION BETWEEN THINGS BELONG TO YOU”
PARIS - the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac presents an exhibition which includes important Latin-American artists: José Luis Cuevas, José-Alejandro Restrepo, Rosangela Renno, Yoshua Okon, Mario García Torres and Carlos Garaicoa
FRANCE - MARTÍN REYNA IN BLACK AND RED
Martín Reyna, Del Infinito gallery, is one of the eight artists who is part of the collective exhibition Champ Libre at the Clairefontaine Chapel Art Center, curated by Raphaël Ocampo.
AIMING TO BRING US CLOSER, A SPECIAL SERIES IS PRESENTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN AND E-FLUX
The series presents a short film every week—all of them freely available online. You can watch them here:
CECILIA VICUÑA & HANS ULRICH OBRIST: ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
On Friday, June 19, join an Art Basel Virtual Talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries in London, and Cecilia Vicuña, whose artistic practice engages with critical issues of environmental justice.
BAphoto PRESENTS LIVETALK, A CONVERSATIONS PROGRAM WITH PHOTOGRAPHY AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FIGURES
BAphoto, the most important Latin American art fair specialized in photography, creates a virtual platform where conversations will be held between important artists, curators, collectors, gallery owners and museum directors from local and international circles, who will reflect on different aspects of photography and contemporary art.
200 ARTISTS FOR PERU - AN INITIATIVE TO PROTECT THOSE WHO PROTECT US
The COVID 19 emergency isn’t over yet. The health crisis requires the continuous renewal of sanitary protection material in the coming months for those who are at the forefront of patient care: professional masks, sterile suits, gloves, face shields. We must act now.
PROTOTYPING AND REOPENING THE MUSEUM: EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE IN LISBON
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat) inaugurated on June 10 a new season under its new director Beatrice Leanza with a museum-wide architecture intervention commissioned to the New York based studio SO – IL of Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu.
THE MAMM PRESENTS AN ARTISTIC PROJECTS MARATHON CARRIED OUT BY ARTISTS IN CONFINEMENT
Confinement Sessions. Artistic Projects Marathon is a program of the MAMM (Museum of Modern Art of Medellín) to give visibility to the artistic practices that occur in the local scene. The broadcast will take place on Sunday, June 14 on the Museum's YouTube channel starting at 3 in the afternoon. 30 projects by visual, sound, electronic, audiovisual and performance artists from the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Area participate.
LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE FROM THE ARCHIVES OF EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Over the course of its fifty year history, El Museo del Barrio has published numerous exhibition catalogues and brochures in keeping with the institution’s commitment to education and the promotion of Latino arts and culture.
DARKNESS AND VERTIGO - VIDEO ART AND GEOLOGY IN A PRESENTATION BY PROA
Fundación Proa of Buenos Aires inaugurates together with the collaborative project Artists’ Film International a new OnLine edition. From May 14 to September 20, 2020 Proa presents a selection of artists who explore the limits of video art, addressing LANGUAGE as a theme. There’s a new film every Thursday on the PROA website
Ch.ACO INAUGURATES ITS VIRTUAL PLATFORM ON ARTSY
Until June 27, the Chilean fair will present activities for Ch.ACO fans and art lovers to get closer to the world of visual arts.
THE OTHER SIDE OF NOW, A LOOK INTO CARIBBEAN FUTURE – PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI
In contemporary art, the Caribbean is often seen through the lens of its traumatic, colonial past and socioeconomic problems that linger in the present. The Other Side of Now seeks to think beyond narratives of catastrophe—both geographical and political—that continue to frame the region, asking instead: What might a Caribbean future look like? The exhibition invites artists from the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean to capture the future of the region as a tangible time and space.
ZⓈONAMACO WELCOMES ITS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR JUAN CANELA
ZⓈONAMACO, the Mexican art fair, welcomes Juan Canela (Spain, 1980) as its new Artistic Director, taking the position that was held by Tania Ragasol (Mexico, 1972) in previous editions.
BEYOND THE HORIZON: CHILEAN ARTISTS REFLECT ON THE MASSIVE EXHIBITION “AL AIRE, LIBRE”
More than 70 artists and collectives gathered in an exhibition that reflected on the experiences and social processes in times of quarantine. The show was made from their own places of confinement on May 16 and 17, and it can be seen in www.alaire-libre.com
PArC 2020 – EN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
Interconnection with the art world, productive sales, dynamic conversation cycles, and more than 76,000 visitors – these are some of the results of Peru Contemporary Art 2020.
ALEXANDER GRAY ASSOCIATES INCLUDES IMPORTANT LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN "ADAA: ONLINE VIEWING ROOM"
Alexander Gray Associates and ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) present Chance and Order in an online viewing room on view June 1 – August 31, 2020
CHRISTO, KNOWN FOR HIS MONUMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL ARTWORKS, HAS DIED AT 84 YEARS OLD
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff passed away Sunday 31 May, according to a statement made on the artist's official twitter account: “Christo passed away today, on May 31, 2020, at his home in New York City. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always made clear that their artworks in progress be continued after their deaths. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris) is still on track for Sept. 18–Oct. 3, 2021”
“This nation continues to be ridden by inequality and racial division” - EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ADRESSES THE COMMUNITY
In light of past events and tensions rising high in the United States, Patrick Charpenel, Executive Director of the New York based Museo del Barrio, sent out a letter to the public.
MoMA - THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ART IN LATIN AMERICA
View the exhibition Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and listen to the experts
CREATION, SPACE AND ISOLATION: SOME OF THE EXPLORED THEMES IN “SOLO” - FUNDACIÓN JUMEX
Mexico City - As part of its program during the museum’s temporary closure due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Museo Jumex will present Mario García Torres: Solo from June 2 until its reopening.
TECHNOLOGIES THAT DRAW NEW WORLDS
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 2020 End of Year Show
ONLINE EDITION OF PArC - LAST DAYS
You can access the online platform of PArC - Peru Contemporary Art - until Sunday May 31 at www.parc.com.pe
CURATOR CLAIRE BREUKEL BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE Y.ES COUNCIL
She also starts a new role as curator of Dacra and the Craig Robins Collection
MADRID - THE REOPENING OF GALERÍA ELBA BENÍTEZ AND ITS EXHIBITION “PALABRAS VACÍAS”
Today, Tuesday, May 26th, Galería Elba Benítez announces its reopening with the returning solo exhibition Palabras vacías by IGNASI ABALLÍ, opened on February 28th.
