Antonio de Pereda, Two Figures at a Kitchen Table, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Closes 8 October 2017 As part of Dulwich Picture Gallery ‘Private made Public’ series of single picture in focused displays, this masterpiece of seventeenth-century Spanish still life has been brought to Dulwich Picture Gallery from the private apartments at Penrhyn Castle (NationalContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Antonio de Pereda, Two Figures at a Kitchen Table”
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Featured Exhibition: Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium
Hélio Oiticica (b. 1937), Tropicália, 1966–67. Plants, sand, birds, and poems by Roberta Camila Salgado. César and Claudio Oiticica Collection, Rio de Janeiro. © César and Claudio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro. Image courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photograph by Bryan Conley Hélio Oiticica. To Organize Delirium, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. ClosesContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”
Featured Exhibition: Lightness and Boldness. Goya’s Drawings
Ligereza y atrevimiento. Dibujos de Goya, Centro Botín, Santander. Closes 24 September 2017. One of the first exhibitions in the recently opened Renzo Piano designed Centro Botín, this show is curated by the Prado’s Head of Drawings and Prints, José Manuel Matilla, and the Chief Curator of the Goya and 18th-century Art Department, Manuela Mena.Continue reading “Featured Exhibition: Lightness and Boldness. Goya’s Drawings”
News from the world of Hispanic art
Many things happened last week in the world of Spanish and Latin American visual culture. London’s Sir John Soane Museum announced a new series of annual lectures and prizes intended to raise the profile of architects, artists and writers who broadened society’s understanding of architecture and the built environment. The inaugural lecture, scheduled for NovemberContinue reading “News from the world of Hispanic art”
Featured Exhibition: The challenge of white. Goya and Esteve, portraitists to the House of Osuna
El desafío del blanco. Goya and Esteve, retratistas de la Casa de Osuna/portraitists to the House of Osuna, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Closes 1 October 2017 This displays presents for the first time in the Prado the portrait of Manuela Isidra Téllez-Girón, the future Duchess of Abrantes, which was painted in 1797 by AgustínContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: The challenge of white. Goya and Esteve, portraitists to the House of Osuna”
New Publication: Santa Teresa o la llama permanente. Estudios históricos, artísticos y literario (Madrid, 2017)
Esther Borrego Gutiérrez and Jaime Olmedo Ramos eds., Santa Teresa o la llama permanente. Estudios históricos, artísticos y literarios (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2017). 424 pp, 56 illus. colour and b&w. Paperback € 33,66 (without IVA). ISBN 9788415245711 Twenty essays from the proceedings of the International Congress on Saint Teresa of Avila, heldContinue reading “New Publication: Santa Teresa o la llama permanente. Estudios históricos, artísticos y literario (Madrid, 2017)”
ARTES Coll y Cortés 2017 post-doctoral scholarship report: Dr Francisco de Asís García García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
I have carried out a three-month fellowship in London from March 1st to May 31st, 2017, conducting research in several museums, libraries and academic institutions of the city. My main goal was to study a selection of textiles from the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion (FTF) Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum. I haveContinue reading “ARTES Coll y Cortés 2017 post-doctoral scholarship report: Dr Francisco de Asís García García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid”
VIA Arts Prize, 2017 Edition
VIA Arts Prize: deadline 16th October 2017 The Embassies of Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, in collaboration with Itaú Unibanco and supported by People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London), are delighted to launch the 2017 edition of the VIA Arts Prize. In an unparalleled exchange between the UK and Latin cultures, this dedicatedContinue reading “VIA Arts Prize, 2017 Edition”
CFP: International Perspectives on the History of Latin American Art, LASA 2018 (Barcelona, 23-26 May 2018)
CFP: International Perspectives on the History of Latin American Art, LASA 2018 (Barcelona, 23-26 May 18) Deadline: 7 August 2017 The Art History of Latin America has been written, for the most part, in the 20th and 21st century. As a discipline it is the product of two distinct points of view: the individual countries’Continue reading “CFP: International Perspectives on the History of Latin American Art, LASA 2018 (Barcelona, 23-26 May 2018)”
Featured Exhibition: Leo Matiz (1917-1998) muralista de la lente
Leo Matiz (1917-1998) muralista de la lente, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City. Closes 17 September 2017 Exhibition of 81 photographs by Colombian photographer and photojournalist Leo Matiz. Matiz established his reputation with his work in Mexico between 1941 and 1947, when he photographed artists and muralists such as Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo andContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Leo Matiz (1917-1998) muralista de la lente”
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