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Lead Stories
-- María Elvira Escallón
-- Cicero Dias, the 1920s. The Brazilian Years
-- Odd Lots (Lotes baldíos). Revisiting the ficticious properties of Gordon Matta-Clark
News and Views
-- Accord between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Italian Minister of Culture, Rome, Italy.
-- Artists Richard Serra and Anthony Goicolea awarded prizes.
-- Views and Concepts, in the Helga de Alvear Collection. Museo Extremeño e Iberamericano de Arte Contemporáneo. Spain
New Works for Sale in Virtual Galleries
-- Solar Gallery
Electronic Catalog
-- Bernard Stanley Hoyes
New Books and Catalogs
-- Ruth Benzacar
-- Arte Povera
-- Alfredo Sinclair B. Huellas
Upcoming Events
-- artbrussels, 2006. Brussels, Bélgica
-- maco: méxico arte contemporáneo. México
-- ArtChicago in the Park 2006. Chicago, USA
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Lead Stories
-- María Elvira Escallón
In her works, Colombian artist María Elvira Escallón develops a reflection on the border between the natural and the cultural. This is what Ivonne Pini, author of this article, expresses in her analysis of the idea of destruction/construction that pervades Escallón¿s work in recent years. Read the article
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-- Cicero Dias, The 1920s. The Brazilian Years
As part of the Year of Brazil celebrations in France, la Maison L¿Amerique Latin presented the first French retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Cícero Dias. Christine Frerot reviews the selection of 65 works, analyzes some of the paintings, watercolors and drawings with especial emphasis, and explains the artist¿s interest in topics that reflect the rural world and everyday life, as well as the use of a light eroticism in his artistic production. Read the text
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-- Odd Lots (Lotes baldíos). Revisiting the ficticious properties of Gordon Matta-Clark
A text on the show presented at White Columns and the Queens Museum of Art, of the city of NewYork. Written by Richard Leslie, the review embarks upon the story of a group of terrains bought by the artist to be sold afterwards and through the project explores the problems of tangibility and value/property. What happened to these when he died and how they became the focus of the show curated by both institutions in NY, are some of the topics developed by Leslie. Read the review
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News and Views
-- Accord between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Italian Minister of Culture, Rome, Italy.
The Metropolitan Museum signed an agreement in Rome in February, formalizing the title transfer of six antiques, including a group of sixteen Hellenic silver pieces, to Italy. Read more
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-- Artists Richard Serra and Anthony Goicolea awarded prizes.
The Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation awarded its International Art Prize to sculptor Richard Serra in Valladolid, Spain. Meanwhile Anthony Giocolea received the prize awarded by BMW-Paris for his work Ghost Ship (2005). Read the news
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-- Views and Concepts, in the Helga de Alvear Collection. Museo Extremeño e Iberamerican...