Picasso. Juego de ojos. Colección Museo Picasso, Málaga 14 March – 11 September 2016 Exhibition of 43 works selected from the museum’s own collections of drawings, prints, illustrated books and ceramics focusing on one of Picasso’s artistic obsessions, the gaze, displayed as a chronological survey beginning with The eyes of the artist and concluding withContinue reading “Picasso’s Eyes (Málaga)”
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (Vancouver)
Picasso: The Artist and His Muses Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 11 June – 2 October 2016 Exhibition examining the significance of the six women who were inspirational to his artistic development: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Picasso’s innovations in painting, drawing, print and sculpture areContinue reading “Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (Vancouver)”
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Sydney)
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 25 June – 9 October 2016 Exhibition presents 33 artworks from the collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman, including self-portrait paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo, and major examples of Diego Rivera’s canvas paintings. Alongside theseContinue reading “Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Sydney)”
Picasso Linocuts at the Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)
Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight, Wirral Merseyside 24 June 2016 – 8 January 2017 17 linocuts from three experimental series created by Picasso in 1962: Jacqueline Reading, portraying Picasso’s recent bride Jacquline Rocque; the rare entire set of progressive proofs of Still Life under the Lamp; and keyContinue reading “Picasso Linocuts at the Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)”
Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor
Joana Vasconcelos: Lafite Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire 15 June – 23 October 2016 Major new addition to Waddesdon’s contemporary art collection, and part of its programme to work with contemporary artists. A pair of sculptures by Joana Vasconcelos has been installed on the North Front. In the form of a giant pair of candlesticks madeContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor”
European Capital of Culture 2016: San Sebastián
1516-2016. Peace Treaties San Sebastián San Telmo Museum of Basque History & Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea 17 June – 2 October 2016 The main art exhibition of this year’s European Capital of Culture: San Sebastián (jointly with Wroclaw, Poland) throughout 2016. Shows 300 art works on the theme of war and peace. Includes works by Goya,Continue reading “European Capital of Culture 2016: San Sebastián”
Art from Latin America Today (London)
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today South London Gallery, Camberwell, London 10 June – 4 September 2016 Touring exhibition from the Guggenheim MAP Initiative, showing works by some 20 contemporary artists born after 1968 and curated by the Guggenheim’s MAP curator of Latin American art, Pablo León de la Barra. The exhibitionContinue reading “Art from Latin America Today (London)”
El Siglo de Oro (Berlin)
El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 01 July 2016 to 30 October 2016 This summer in Berlin, a major exhibition showcasing 17th century Spanish painting and sculpture in all its fascinating variety goes on show outside of Spain for the first time. El Siglo de Oro: The Age of Velázquez comprisesContinue reading “El Siglo de Oro (Berlin)”
Ramon Casas in Barcelona
Ramon Casas and the shadow puppets at Els Quatre Gats. Bohemia and the popular imaginary Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) 30 June – 20 October 2016 (http://www.museunacional.cat/en/ramon-casas-and-shadow-puppets-els-quatre-gats-bohemia-and-popular-imaginary) The collection of Ramon Casas’s works held by MNAC has recently been enriched with the acquisition of an unusual group of 12 ‘Chinese shadow’ drawings orContinue reading “Ramon Casas in Barcelona”
Symposium – One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992 – 24-25 Nov 2016 – Barcelona
International Symposium One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992 24-25 November 2016 Departament d’Humanitats-Institut de Cultura Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona The advent of Barcelona as a modern, cosmopolitan, innovative metropolis, open to the world, is punctuated by two founding events: the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and, a century on, the Olympic Games of 1992. Both are key momentsContinue reading “Symposium – One Hundred Years of Cultural Transfer: Barcelona 1888-1992 – 24-25 Nov 2016 – Barcelona”
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