Lead Stories
-- Inverted Utopias. Avant-garde Art in Latin America.
-- William Kentridge.
-- Alberto Gironella.
News and Views
--The San Francisco Art Institute -SFAI - appoints Okwui Enwezor as Dean.
--The 4th International Symposium on the Theory of Contemporary Art –SITAC- was held in Mexico.
--The Blanton Museum of Art integrates Latin American and American Art in its permanent collection. Texas.
-- Virgilio Garza appointed head of Christie’s Latin American Art Department in New York.
Heard on the street…
--We have the winner for the artwork and the luxury edition book of Julio Larraz.
New Works for Sale in Virtual Galleries
-- Pan American Gallery.
Electronic Catalog
-- Amparo Garzón.
Books and Catalogs
-- Inverted Utopias. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America.
-- Ruven Afanador. Sombras.
-- Mario Carreño.
Upcoming Events
-- Cantos y Cuentos Colombianos. Contemporary Colombian Art. Part II. Daros-Latin America, Zurich.
-- Arco'05, Madrid.
-- The Armory Show, New York.
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Lead Stories
-- Inverted Utopias. Avant-garde Art in Latin America
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts presented Inverted Utopias, a show curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez and Héctor Olea. The exhibition was organized thematically, which enhanced the effect of a proposition that gathered artists from varied places and periods who contributed to the development of avant-garde movements in Latin America during the Twentieth Century. Francine Bribragher comments in detail about the works on display. Read the article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=14271
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-- William Kentridge
Dermis Pérez León writes about the works of William Kentridge (South Africa), an artist characterized by his humorous social-critique narratives and his mix of animation and film manipulation techniques with various other media. The article comments on the meaning of drawing, like a favorable element of processes that explore time and space, in Kentridge´s works. The author covers a show at K20, KunstSammlung Nordrhein and some of the works exhibited there. Read the article
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=14291
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-- Alberto Gironella
A text dedicated to the work of one of the most outstanding Mexican artists from the second half of the 20th century. The article is based on a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, and the author, Germaine Gomez Aro, comments on her approach and interview with the artist, before his death. Read the article.
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=14293
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News and Views
-- The San Francisco Art Institute -SFAI - appoints Okwui Enwezor as Dean.
The prestigious art curator, writer and critic will begin his work as Dean starting on July 2005, becoming the sixth Dean of Academic Affairs in an institution with 133 years of history. Read more
http://www.artnexus.com/servlet/NewsDetail?documentid=14352
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