Seniloquium

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

De las artes del Gótico ha llegado a afirmarse que son sólo el término de la evolución de los sistemas románicos llevados a sus últimas consecuencias por una sociedad que se sentía capaz de grandes empresas y que ardía en anhelos de perfección". Esta sociedad alcanza su máximo desarrollo en España a partir de¡ siglo XIII. Es a partir de entonces cuando la sociedad burguesa comienza a elaborar su poder y riqueza en las ciudades, demandando para sí parte del trabajo que antes solamente se hacía con destino a iglesias, catedrales o monasterios.

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renée Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how...

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.