This is the catalogue of the first solo institutional exhibition of Uruguayan artist José Gurvich in New York. This important exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramics, produced between 1957 and 1973, examines Gurvich’s role in the School of the South as a student of Joaquin Torres-García and an exponent of constructivism nationally and internationally.

Includes key texts featured in the Americas Society Literature Spring Program, including those by Argentine author Marcos Aguinis, Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, Mexican-born author Ilan Stavans (interviewed by Gabriel Sanders of The Forward), Argentine writer Luisa Futoransky, Peruvian poet Isaac Goldemberg, filmmaker Isaac Artenstein, and leading scholar of Jewish Latin American literature Edna Aizenberg. The work of visual artists Guillermo Kuitca, José Gurvich, and Frans Krajcberg are also showcased in the issue.

These works were drawn from the contemporary art section in Banco Mercantil's extensive art collection in Caracas. The work of Venezuelan artists in this exhibit highlight dialogues with the past and present, reflecting a break from kinetic art and the idea of modernity as a concept in crisis.

Features essays, poetry and fiction by writers in the Americas Society’s “Mexico NOW” literature programs “Out of the Labyrinth: Mexican Literature Today” (Nov. 18) and “Bat at Noon:  Remembering Luis Ignacio Helguera” (Nov. 19), among them Homero Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, Coral Bracho and Carlos Monsiváis.

Unlike in Mexico City, contemporary artists from Guadalajara are not trained in art schools as they come from different disciplines such as architecture and media studies. So Far, So Close gathered recent works by those who do not share a style or common preoccupations, but rather a sense of geographical displacement.

In Memoriam: “John Coleman on Spectacle Lane,” by Belkis Cuza Malé; “Towards a Reading of Ortiz’s Cuban Counterpoint,” by Enrico Mario Santí; “Creolité: Power, Mimicry, and Dependence,” by A. James Arnold; “Paris Isn’t Always a City in Texas,” by Dany Laferrière; Interview with Raphaël Confiant; “Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat,” by Maryse Condé; “Cherries” and more.

Includes poetry and prose by Claribel Alegría, Manlio Argueta, Arturo Arias, Gioconda Belli, Ernesto Cardenal, Ana Istarú, Víctor Montejo, Roberto Quesada, and Sergio Ramírez; “Kidnapping Alaíde,” by Otto Raúl González; Interview with Pablo Antonio Cuadra; Texts by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Ana Castillo, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Achy Obejas, and Nelly Rosario; Art by Francisco Alvarado, Josefina Guilisasti, and Marco Maggi; Book reviews of new Canadian writing.