BELLAS ARTES

Innovatively combining period and contemporary furniture and art in a sophisticated mix, the homes of Isabel López-Quesada are inspirational and unforgettable. In At Home, the Spanish designer tells her own story. The perfect gift for admirers of her work, and an ideal introduction for those new to the designer.

Exposición magistral de cómo son las cosas en el mundo del cine, presentadas con multitud de anécdotas. Ofrece a la vez las memorias de un magnífico director y una guía sobre el arte, la técnica y el negocio de la realización.

For Ashe and Leandro, creativity is a way of life that is reflected in everything they design. They have built a star-studded portfolio (clients include Liev Schreiber, Seth Meyers, Naomi Watts, and Rashid Johnson) with their fresh approach to unfussy, high-design spaces. Their interiors favor a quiet beauty, based on simple shapes, asymmetrical details, and a fine patina.

Muy pocos profesores de interpretación han logrado desarrollar un método detallado que forme actores verdaderamente creativos: Sanford Meisner, fallecido en 1997, fue uno de ellos. Su técnica toma al artista como materia prima y construye, partiendo de cero, las habilidades que necesita para despuntar en la interpretación. Discípulo y mano derecha de Meisner, William Esper ha transmitido y ampliado su técnica durante décadas, en las que ha sido maestro de intérpretes como John Malkovich, Kim Basinger, William Hurt y Kathy Bates. En Arte y oficio del actor, con la ayuda de Damon DiMarco, uno de sus discípulos, Esper nos sumerge en el aula y nos permite asistir, como un alumno más, a uno de sus fascinantes cursos.

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.