The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH) and the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA, Fundación Constantini), collaborate in a joint event to celebrate their ten-year anniversaries together. Preceded by multiple other events and shaped by cultural exchanges between the two institutions, the event proposes the beginning of a new agenda directed to Latin American art in Argentina and the US. The first formal act will take place at the MALBA: fourteen works from the permanent collection of the MFAH will be on display during the month of September at the Argentinean institution and these will remain there until March, 2012. This exhibition includes works by Hércules Barsotti, Aluísio Carvão, Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Gego, Beatríz González, Hélio Oiticica, Otero, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jesús Rafael Soto, Joaquín Torres-García, and Alfredo Volpi. Additionally, the MALBA will also receive 125 works included in the retrospective organized by the MFAH of Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. On September 21, 2011, Malba will host a three-day international symposium entitled Latin American Art: Ten Years of Changes, Perspectives and Projects. This event will address six projects presented by several institutions that center on Latin American art. The panel will include the participation of museum and gallery directors, curators, and people specialized in art from the last ten years. Malba will reciprocate the loans by sending to the MFAH more than 30 works from its permanent collection. The exhibition of these pieces will open to de public in April 2012. Among the artworks that will be part of this exchange between the two museums are pieces by: Tarsila do Amaral, Antonio Berni, Frida Kahlo, Roberto Matta, Candido Portinari, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-García. More information available at
http://www.malba.org.ar/ or
http://www.mfah.org/