Between the 17th and the 20th, October, Asunción gathered more than 68 international critics from 27 countries for the 44th AICA International Congress. During the fourth day the AICA Internationl General Assembly took place, during which they proceeded to elect the new president 2011-2014 and recomposed the Administrative Board, which embodied several Latin American critics.

The congress focused on the present state of art in both a local and an international context and the conferences, dissertations, and lectures posed the following questions: What kind of perspective and axes of communication should be adopted, in response to the changing relations between art, criticism, and society? What is the critic’s role and responsibility vis-à-vis the society s/he lives and works in today?