The art world recently received news of the closing of Casa Daros in Rio de Janeiro, which generated mixed emotions of sadness, worry and nostalgia as people learned of this development, especially in the city of Rio itself. Rumors spoke of financial shortcomings in the Casa Daros project, but the Daros press department corrected them, noting that the decision adopted by the Daros Latinoamérica Collection Council was not exclusively financial. After more than 20 large-scale exhibitions, performances, conferences, workshops, and other educational and creative events, Casa Daros is to change course, and its organization, which manages the Daros Latinoamérica collection, will focus its efforts on caring for the collection and developing public activities in the international context via collaborations with world-wide cultural institutions, offering artistic and educational activities. In terms of the future of the Casa Daros building, Christian Verling, president of the Daros Latinoamérica Collection Council, declared: "We hope that the new institution housed in Casa Daros uses it as a home for the arts and culture. Of course, we will begin conversations with different institutions that may be interested in this exceptional platform for the population of Rio." Casa Daros will present its last exhibition, titled "Fiction and Fantasy," starting in September. This exhibition will present an extensive panoramic of Cuban art in recent decades, featuring works from the collection by 15 Cuban artists, most of them Havana-based. The works selected include the political and social analysis of Lázaro Saavedra, René Francisco, and Tonel; also the playful conceptualism of Los Carpinteros, and the representation of the mysticism and phantasmagoria of Afro-Cuban religions in the work of José Bedia, Belkis Ayón, and Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal, among others. Today, the Daros Latinoamérica collection includes more than 1,200 works by 120 artists from all over Latin America, which makes it one of the world's most important collections of contemporary Latin American art. Also, Daros Latinoamérica has Europe's largest contemporary Latin American art library, housed in Zurich; it features more than 8,500 monographs and exhibition catalogs. In upcoming months, different institutions from around the world, such as the Proa Foundation from Buenos Aires, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Bildmuseet Umeå, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2016), will exhibit works from the collection.