arteBA, a leading international contemporary art fair focused on Latin-American Art and the most relevant annual cultural event in Buenos Aires. The fair takes place every May in the premises of La Rural, in the neighbourhood of Palermo.

The fair is organized by arteBA Fundación, a non-profit organization that has been active since 1991 with the goal of supporting artistic creation in the visual arts in Argentina and Latin America. The Foundation contributes to the development of the contemporary art market through its annual activities, it promotes debates on matters of art and culture in Latin America, and helps bringing the work of the Latin American artists to the attention of a wider audience.

Steely Dan was the American rock band lead by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band’s popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone magazine has called them “the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies.”

The band’s music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan’s “cerebral, wry and eccentric” lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, crime, and their true-to-life “contempt of west coast hippies.” The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980′s Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs.

Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade, Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time, the group steadily built and maintained “a cult following

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Dos excelentes músicos neoyorquinos, Donald Fagen (teclados, voz) y Walter Becker (guitarras, bajo eléctrico) formaron la esencia, el núcleo duro, de STEELY DAN unaexquisita y elegante banda. Un grupo formado a comienzos de los Setenta.

Si bien originalmente fueron una banda con una formación estable (5 ó 6 miembros) y periódicas giras, a partir del cuarto disco se convirtieron en un dúo de estudio secundado por extraordinarios músicos de sesión, los mejores de la profesión.

Su sexto álbum se tituló AJA. Fue grabado en 1977, con una nómina asombrosa de músicos de la escena jazz-rock: Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Chuck Rainey entre otros.

Left: Allegoria # 8 The War of Worlds 2010

Right: Last Riot 2 Tondo # 12.27 Macro Future

The AES+F Group comprises four Russian artists. Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch and Evgeny Svyatsky have collaborated as AES since 1987, and have worked with photographer Vladimir Fridkes since 1995 (AES+F Group). Arzamasova and Evzovitch are graduates of Moscow Architectural Institute, Svyatskiy is a graduate of Moscow University of Printing Arts, and Fridkes has been a fashion photographer for Russian editions of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and others. In collaboration, their work has included photo-projects, video, sculptures and installations.

SPRING POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTIONS IN NEW YORK TOTALED $638.6 MILLION / See prices realized:

Image: Roy Lichetenstein´s Woman with the Flowered Hat / Price realized: $ 56,123,750 / World record for the artist at auction

$58,363,750 Jackson Pollock, Number 19, 1948

$48,843,750 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dustheads

$25,883,750 Philip Guston, To Fellini

$14,123,750 Piero Manzoni Achrome

$6,510,000 Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Standard Lotus No. II, Bird of Paradise, Tiger Mouth Face 44.01)

$4,827,750 Joseph Cornell, Magic Soap Bubble Set

$4,827,750 Hans Hofmann, Beatae Memoriae

$4,603,750 Julie Mehretu, Retopistics – A Renegade Excavation

$4,267,750 Richard Serra, L.A. Cone

$2,699,750 Luc Tuymans, Rumour

$2,139,750 Kenneth Noland, Circle

$1,785,000 Bharti Kher, The Skin Speaks A Language Not Its Own

$1,785,000 Sterling Ruby SP231

$1,575,000 Raymond Pettibon, No Title (The Lower Half…)

$1,575,000 Robert Longo, Untitled (Leo)

$1,443,750 Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.108 Hanging, Six-Lobed, Multi-Layered Continuous Form…)

$1,179,750 El Anatsui, Another Plot

$1,050,000 Elizabeth Peyton, Leonardo, February 2013

$987,750 Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe

$714,000 Dan Colen, To be titled

$714,000 Mark Ryden, Queen Bee

$682,500 Joe Bradley, Muggles

$603,750 Michaël Borremans, Hornet

$447,750 Jaume Plensa, Alegria I

$315,000 Carol Bove, Untitled

$262,500 Sergej Jensen, Untitled

$327,750 Bob Thompson, Cathedral

$315,000 Adam McEwen, Untitled

$315,000 Rob Pruitt, 6:20pm,

$315,750 Ken Price, Percival

$99,750 Theaster Gates, Work Chair

NEW ARTISTS RECORD BY MEDIUM (The 11th Hour Auction, Evening & Day Sales):

$7,739,750 Cy Twombly, Untitled (Rome) (sculpture)

$5,723,750 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Furious Man (work on paper)

$1,443,750 Bruce Nauman, Marching Figure (work on paper)

$1,203,750 Urs Fischer, Pinky (painting)

$1,203,750 Christopher Wool, Untitled (work on paper)

$5,723,750 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Furious Man (work on paper)

$1,443,750 Bruce Nauman, Marching Figure (work on paper)

$1,203,750 Urs Fischer, Pinky (painting)

$1,203,750 Christopher Wool, Untitled (work on paper)

y corrupta Kirchnerista, tal vez no seria una mala idea compartir esta

imagen donde se pueda!!!!!!!!!

Parisian prints (dating from around 1920) featuring the most beautiful buildings and monuments of the time, are the background for the latest work of 30quarenta. “Les Vieux hotels de París”, these unique, detailed prints were found by owner; Miguel Bornstein, who decided to intervene them, and in a way; bring them back to life. These prints are the base for 30quarenta’s latest collages.

Miguel worked alongside his daughter; Isabel Bornstein and Caterina Spannagel. Using their three names (first letters) they formed the named “Grupo Camisa”.

They started off by using Victorian figurines and other childlike stickers to shape their pieces. They later moved on to pin up figures, these interact with the French buildings and older elements taken from Argentine ads and Early 1920’s Tango Scores to give a local feel.

The next chapter is primarily based on images of furniture, decorative objects and art installations.

Lately there are no prohibitions, they paint the backgrounds razor cut them, and use all types of images and photographs. Miguel Bornstein spilled his previous knowledge in the fields of antique furniture and decorative art to create a surreal atmosphere were all the pieces interact. He believes, and through these confirms; that all beautiful things work well together, no matter the circumstance, they are timeless.

Antiguos prints franceses de 1920 con fotografias de petit hotels, edificios, mansiones y monumentos parisinos, son la base para el último trabajo de 30quarenta, un particular grupo de Buenos Aires dedicado al arte decorativo?, al arte a secas?.

Sobre el estilo de este particular grupo, que exhibe su trabajo en un exquisito local ubicado en la tradicional calle Arroyo del barrio Norte de la ciudad, alguien escribió una vez: “No es arte, no es decoración, es algo decididamente nuevo, es 30quarenta”.

Allí, Miguel Bornstein, su inspirador y también creador de piezas verdaderamente únicas, decidió intervenir los antiguos prints de la serie “Les Vieux hotels de Paris”. Junto a su hija Isabel y Caterina Spannagel -con quienes conforma el grupo autodenominado Camisa- utilizaron los elementos mas diversos: desde recortes de viejos figurines Victorianos hasta imágenes de mobilario o afiches publicitarios.

El resultado es una importante serie de espléndidos collages que Art Democracy mostrará próximamente y que reafirma nuestra idea de que “El Collage nunca muere”.

“Wanda Pimentel’s painting has been, since the beginning, in the 60’s, a metaphor of imprisonment. Everything in her work – themes, images, coloring, space connection, graphic structure – is used in order to increase a feeling of oppression and confinement. Through this comprising metaphor, the artist expresses a prevailing feeling in her work – the loneliness of human being”

Wanda Pimentel and the Aesthetic of loneliness

Frederico Morais [Rio de Janeiro, August 1994]