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Puerto Rico: See Matthias Weischer’s exhibition at Museo de Arte de Ponce before or after Art Basel

PONCE, P.R.- Visitors to Art Basel Miami will have to add a stop on their itinerary to complete the feast of contemporary art, because in its tireless efforts to remain one of the trailblazing art institutions of the hemisphere, the Museo de Arte de Ponce announces the opening of the exhibition “Matthias Weischer: New Work” on Saturday, November 26, at 2:00 pm. This is the first individual exhibition in the Americas of one of the principal representatives of the New Leipzig School, which critics have called the “first art phenomenon” of the twenty-first century. The exhibit will remain open to the public through March 26, 2012, and will be accompanied by a selection of works from the museum that have a connection with Weischer’s works. That “phenomenon” that we know as the New Leipzig School is not a formal or