This week in Art Speak, we look at one of the oldest and most important disciplines in the world, and how it has been appropriated and reinterpreted by artists: cartography, or the art of map-making.

A new book charts the gorgeous evolution of maps.

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Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled, 2013, oil, acrylic, and ink on canvas, 90 x 70 inches. Contributed by Sharon Butler / At this stage, abstraction is no longer considered confusing or iconoclastic. So wh…

The department used similar mapping techniqueas in the past to make maps of Mount Hood in 2011 and the Three Sisters in 2012, both in the Oregon Cascades.

Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts is an invitation to read quilts as maps, tracing the paths of individual stories and experiences that illuminate larger historic events and cultural trends. The exhibition brings together a collection of quilts that represents a range of materials, motifs, and techniques.

New Yorkers’ famously overwrought personalities take center stage in the new exhibit You Are Here: Mapping The Pyschogeography of New York City, guest-curated by “The Map as Art” …