News and Views
-- City Rooms, the censored project created by Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales, presented at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
-- Miami Art Central - MAC - opens its space with the exhibition Ten Floridians. Miami, Florida.
-- 4th Biennial of Nicaraguan Visual Arts Ortiz-Guardian Foundation
Managua, Nicaragua
-- The Cesar Foundation for Visual Arts, an organization dedicated to the preservation of photography and digital media. United States-Switzerland
Heard on the Street…
-- A taxi driver returns engravings by Salvador Dalí left in his cab
New Works for Sale in Virtual Galleries
-- ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
New Electronic Catalogs
--Gustavo Acosta
New Books and Catalogs
-- Paralelos. A arte brasileira da segunda metade do século XX em contexto. Colección Cisneros.
-- Mexico Attacks
-- Beatriz Gonzalez. Retrospective
Upcoming Events
-- 7th Lyon Biennale, France
-- 8th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey
-- Art Paris, France
-- FIAC, Paris
-- FotoFest 2004
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Lead Stories
-- From Latin American Art to Art from Latin America
An essay written by Gerardo Mosquera, inquiring on different aspects of Latin American identity. It comments on the need of the Latin American to be recognized as such, facing the "pressure to underline or build identities of resistance towards Europe and the United States ". Mosquera analyzes some terms and concepts and places them into perspective by referring them to "Latin American Art" and to "Art in Latin America". Read the article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=9624
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-- Recent Art in Chile. Passenger in Transit
In an article in which journalist and art critic Catalina Mena exposes present tendencies in Chilean art, the author comments on the way in which recent art from this country uses the family and the domestic space as subject matter by presenting to the viewer elements that come from daily life. Read article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=9626
***********************************************************************-- Clorindo Testa . Artist-Architect, the Curious Coexistence of Two Glories
Art critic Elena Olivera writes an article on the work of Argentine Clorindo Testa and talks about the two sides of his work: Testa as an architect and Testa as a visual artist. Olivera cites several of the works done between the decades of the 1970s and the 1990s, commenting on the thoughts that motivated them, as well as on how architecture and art combine and confront each other within these works. Read article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=9628
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News and Views
-- City Rooms, the censored project created by Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales, presented at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
The City Rooms project was censored by official observers from the Venezuelan Vice-Ministry of Culture, as stated in the artist's CD, after the artist himself was selected in a national contest. However, the authorities of the Biennial contemplated Venezuela in the catalogue and other publications. Read more
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