Mercedes Ezquiaga
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Malba picks architect for expansion that will double its exhibition space (opens the original)
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The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has chosen the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design a long-planned expansion that will double its exhibition space. The project will be built beneath the adjacent Plaza Perú and is expected to open in late 2029 or early 2030. Eduardo Costantini, the museum’s founder and president, has also launched a $50m trust to help secure its long-term future. Escobedo founded her studio in Mexico City in 2006 and opened an office in New York in
Colombia earthquake damaged 40 protected sites and dozens more cultural assets, report finds (opens the original)
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Colombia’s ministry of culture released its first official report on damage to dozens of cultural heritage sites from the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the west of the country on 10 August. The report, published on 14 August, identifies 40 nationally protected cultural properties in the seven departments hardest hit by the disaster that suffered some degree of damage, 22 of which were severely impacted.Of the remaining properties, 13 suffered moderate damage and five were only lightly aff
Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist (opens the original)
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Eight works by Henri Matisse that were stolen during an armed robbery at the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo last December have been recovered by the state’s civil police. The works, from Matisse’s celebrated 1947 book Jazz, have already been returned to the library. But the recovery is only partial: five works by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari taken in the same heist remain missing, and police suspect they may already have been sold, the São Paulo State Public Security Secretariat
Collector Bernardo Paz plans new museum in Brazil next-door to Inhotim (opens the original)
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The Brazilian art collector and former mining magnate Bernardo Paz is developing a new museum and botanical garden on a 311-acre site right next to Inhotim—the museum he founded and opened to the public 20 years ago in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais. Although Paz no longer plays a role in Inhotim’s leadership, his new project appears to revive its model of art pavilions set within a botanical landscape. The new Museu Bernardo Paz will be developed in phases, with the first pavilions scheduled to open
Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations (opens the original)
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A team led by the Japanese architecture firm Sanaa has been selected to design a new home for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador (Muna) in Quito, less than two weeks after the government annulled the result of an international competition following a social media backlash. The controversy led to the resignation of two cultural officials, prompted several architecture firms to withdraw from the new design competition and sparked a debate over the competition’s original rules. The new building is inte
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