Rio de Janeiro: Favela and Asfalto, by João Pina

João Pina, opens up a fearless view into the parallel universe of Rio de Janeiro: Favela and Asfalto. It is quite rare that one gets such an up-close and personal look inside the slums of Rio de Janeiro. One can see hand-to-hand drug dealings, young gangsters posing with their weapons, as well as a priest who has made exorcism his mission, because he feels there is no other hope left for these young men. It is a captivating journey through [...]

Norman Foster Designs First Office Headquarters in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES.- Foster + Partners, working with construction firm, CRIBA S.A. and local architect, BBRCH-Minond, has won the competition to design a new corporate headquarters for the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Plans for the energy-efficient building, which will occupy an entire city block in the neighbourhood of Parque Patricios, echo its park-side setting with landscaped courtyards and shaded walkways and will provide a distinctive new presence for the bank in the city. The scheme occupies the whole site [...]

Francis Bacon’s ‘The Tip of the Iceberg’ Opens in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES.- The exhibition was organized on occasion of the 53rd Venice Biennale but it is a unique event with an extraordinary character; Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos, Aires, hosts an exhibition of drawings by Francis Bacon titled ‘The Tip of the Iceberg. Drawings by Francis Bacon’. The exhibition – curated by the famous English art critic Edward Lucie-Smith and by Alberto Agazzani – shows a ‘corpus’ of about 20 drawings on paper of various sizes, authentically signed by Francis [...]

More than 14,000 Objects Belonging to Juan and Evita Peron to be Auctioned

BUENOS AIRES.- More than 14,000 objects belonging to the late Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron and his second wife, Evita, are to be auctioned off beginning Monday in order to collect more than $20 million for humanitarian causes. A book by historian Felix Luna dedicated to the general and corrected throughout by Peron, and a Limoges porcelain jewelry box that was a gift of dancer Josephine Baker, are a couple of the pieces to be auctioned during the coming months [...]

Pop Art from the Collection of Valencia’s IVAM Travels to Cuba

HAVANA.- The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) and the SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España) openning today, February/5/2010 this co-production with the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in Cuba and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba. The Pop Art exhibition at the IVAM Collection is curated by chief curator of the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg (USA) William Jeffett, and the Director of IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar. The exhibition brings together 59 works [...]