Beatriz González

La Cerca,” Fenci's solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for The Wall” as the exhibition's title. We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they're all...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

¿Por qué escribir otro libro sobre Frida Kahlo? ¿No se ha dicho acaso todo lo que se tenía que decir? Aunque parezca paradójico, es precisamente esa abundancia de estudios y testimonios sobre la figura de Kahlo lo que ha impulsado a la autora a emprender la escritura de este libro. La leyenda creada en torno a la biografía de la artista mexicana no ha servido sino para oscurecer el conocimiento de su obra: la mayor parte de los textos sobre Kahlo se limitan a analizar, con delectación morbosa, sus oscuros traumas familiares, su tormentosa relación con el pintor Diego Rivera, su...

Urban sketcher Mike Daikubara gives beginners a crash course in location sketching that you can use in any city or town in Sketch Now, Think Later.