Call for Papers: The Discovery of the Inconspicuous: Body, Materiality and Narrativity in the Work of Francisco de Zurbarán and his Reception in Art History Annual conference of the Carl Justi Association for the Promotion of Art Historical Cooperation with Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America, in cooperation with Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and the Department of Art History of the Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätContinue reading “CFP: Zurbarán and his Reception in Art History (Düsseldorf, January 2016)”
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Exhibitions: London – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network’s Summer Shows – 23 June -12 Sept 2015
SCAN – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network SATURATION | New Spanish Painting In an image-saturated age, digital media, internet, television, film, and video entertain, inform and surround us every waking hour. Hand-held technologies have made us not only incessant consumers but also constant maker/editors of images. The artistic value of the painted image has been inContinue reading “Exhibitions: London – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network’s Summer Shows – 23 June -12 Sept 2015”
CFP: The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now (London, 2016)
Call for Papers: The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now London, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House 13 June 2016 Deadline: 30 July 2015 Proposals should be c 350 words and sent with a short CV to Susan Bracken schbracken@btopenworld.com and Adriana Turpin turpinadriana@hotmail.com with cc to collecting_display@hotmail.com Our usual July conference dateContinue reading “CFP: The Art Market, Collectors and Agents: Then and Now (London, 2016)”
New book: The Casa del Deán: New World Imagery in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural Cycle
The Casa del Deán: New World Imagery in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural Cycle, by Penny C. Morrill (Austin: University of Texas Press, December 2014) ISBN: 978-0-292-75930-5 (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) “Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonialContinue reading “New book: The Casa del Deán: New World Imagery in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural Cycle”
Exhibition: Cristina Rodrigues, Knutsford, Cheshire
Cristina Rodrigues: ‘Guardian Angels’ Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire 21 May – 4 October 2015 closed Mondays The latest exhibition by Portuguese-born and Manchester-based installation artist and former architect and ethnographer, on display at a Georgian National Trust country house venue. Rodrigues’ art lends an artistic identity to functional objects within the house, such as tables,Continue reading “Exhibition: Cristina Rodrigues, Knutsford, Cheshire”
Exhibition: Miró y el Mori el Merma, Valencia
Miró y el Mori el Merma Centro del Carmen, Valencia 11 June – 13 September In 1978 Miró collaborated with the theatre company Teatre de la Claca to design, decorate and produce the masks and giant puppet figures for their production of Mori el Merma a play based on Alfred Jarry’s tyrannical Ubu figure, whomContinue reading “Exhibition: Miró y el Mori el Merma, Valencia”
Exhibition – Coll & Cortés – London Art 2015 Week – 3-10 July 2015
CFP: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edinburgh, April 2016
Call for Papers: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries Association of Art Historians University of Edinburgh 7-9 April 2016 Convened by Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh) and Anna McSweeney (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to theContinue reading “CFP: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edinburgh, April 2016”
Exhibition: The Red that Colored the World, Santa Fe
The Red That Colored The World Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe, New Mexico 17 May – 13 September 2015 Next venue: Bowers Museum (Santa Ana, California) From 31 October 2015 (Photo: Sewing box with cover with cochineal dyed wool yarn -detail). Box, Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, late 18th century. Wood, paint, metal, gold leaf, 4 3/4Continue reading “Exhibition: The Red that Colored the World, Santa Fe”
Position at the Bowes Museum: Assistant Curator of Fine Art Specialising in Spanish Art
The Bowes Museum is seeking an Assistant Curator of Fine Art to join its curatorial team. The postholder will curate an internationally renowned collection of European art spanning five centuries and will have an interest in, and preferably a good knowledge of, Spanish art. The Bowes Museum and Auckland Castle are partners, and have betweenContinue reading “Position at the Bowes Museum: Assistant Curator of Fine Art Specialising in Spanish Art”
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