Announcements

Americas Society announces the release of a catalog for the current exhibition Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy. The publication includes essays by featured artists and a historical timeline covering the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s and the current scene emerging after extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years.

Americas Society presents Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy, an exhibition of Argentine contemporary art that maps the historical scenario of specific breakthroughs in contemporary art of 1960s Buenos Aires. The exhibition opened September 28 with a curatorial dialogue. In addition, AS hosted a panel discussion on contemporary Argentine literature at 6:30 p.m. reflecting on Argentina's complex identity through its culture, history, and landscape.

AS/COA host Latin American leaders during the week of the UN General Assembly in New York, including public events with Presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, as well as Argentine Senator and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Learn more about our UNGA-related events.

In testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth notes that passage of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement is a rare opportunity to advance strategic policy goals while promoting U.S. economic, labor and environmental interests.

During an August summit of North American leaders in Canada, the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)—a trilateral council of business leaders representing the private sectors of Canada, Mexico, and the United States—offered recommendations on border-crossing facilitation, standards and regulatory cooperation, and energy integration. To download the report, click here. For more about the NACC, click here.

Sign up now to attend the Council of the Americas' premiere event held in the nation's capital: The 37th Annual Washington Conference on the Americas. The Conference, to be held May 1-2, 2007, at the U.S. State Department and Inter-American Development Bank, will bring together approximately 250 of the most influential business and political figures of the Western Hemisphere to discuss current and future trends in the region. For more information contact: Stephanie Akers, sakers@as-coa.org or call (202) 659-8989.