Central/South America
Aural is the experimental music portion of Festival de México, Mexico City's largest cultural event taking place throughout the city with a number of theater, dance, music, literature and art events for ten days in May.BLOUIN ARTINFO’s Laura García...
World-class French fashion house Louis Vuitton recently opened its doors at the Aventura Mall in Miami. The luxurious two-story space will feature small art exhibits — the first by Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe.Tschäpe's “Paper Cuts” is a colorful...
White Cube will open a Brazilian outpost in São Paulo on December 1st, 2012, the blue chip gallery has just announced. Tracey Emin is to inaugurate the new space with a solo exhibition, "You Don’t Believe in Love But I Believe in You."The new gallery confirms...
After spending last year traipsing below the border to break ground on his first few projects in Mexico, Richard Meier is heading below the equator to start his first South American project: a light, modernist office building in the beach-lined metropolis and...
BUENOS AIRES — I’m in downtown Buenos Aires for a few days as the guest of BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente), which has published a Spanish-language anthology of my work.As film festivals go, BAFICI places a natural emphasis...
Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, ruled over a vast terrain that stretched along the Pacific Ocean from Ecuador to Chile. After winning the crown in 1532 through a bitter civil war with his brother after their father's death, he was ambushed and executed by...
The architect Richard Meier spent much of last year south of the border, designing W Hotels for Mexico City and Playa del Carmen and helping to arrange a retrospective of his work at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey. Now he is...
The case of the alleged Marilyn Monroe erotic film that failed to sell at auction in Argentina over the weekend is a fascinating lesson on the art market. In this world, sex doesn't sell — authentication does.Just a few weeks ago, ARTINFO reported that an 8mm...
There is something tragic about the Museo Soumaya, the spectacular-looking private museum in Mexico City that opened to the public on March 28. It is owned and operated by the Carlos Slim Foundation and contains the collection of the world's richest man,...
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February 09, 2013