The Courtauld Summer School features a variety of week-long intensive art history courses at one of the world’s leading Institutes for the study of art history, conservation and curating. Open to everyone over the age of 18. Click here for more information on the programme. ARTES members may be particularly interested in Spanish Splendour: TheContinue reading “The Courtauld Summer School 2019: Dr Nicola Jennings, ‘Spanish Splendour: The Arts of Iberia 1350–1500’, 15–19 July 2019”
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Featured Exhibition: Displaying Latin America, Harvard Art Museums, until 12 May 2019
This exhibition explores the vibrant cosmopolitan architecture culture in Latin America during the interwar period, using original materials from archival collections at Harvard. Presented here are works by Argentinian architects Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and Juan Kurchan, who collaborated with Le Corbusier, and by German architect Franz Möller, who worked with Walter Gropius, both of whomContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Displaying Latin America, Harvard Art Museums, until 12 May 2019”
Opens Today: Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Art Institute of Chicago, until 23 June 2019
Over the course of millennia, textiles were the primary form of aesthetic expression and communication for the diverse cultures that developed throughout the desert coasts and mountain highlands of the Andean region. Worn as garments, suspended on walls of temples and homes, and used in ritual settings, textiles functioned in multiple contexts, yet, within eachContinue reading “Opens Today: Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Art Institute of Chicago, until 23 June 2019”
A month left to apply to CEEH doctoral funding at Durham University and Trinity College Dublin
The Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica and the Center for Spain in America (CSA) encourage studies on Spanish history, art and literature by establishing doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships at European and American universities, as well as at research centres whose holdings are particularly relevant to the knowledge of Spanish culture. They likewise establish assistantships forContinue reading “A month left to apply to CEEH doctoral funding at Durham University and Trinity College Dublin”
More News from ARTES Scholars
ARTES warmly congratulates Ignacio J. López Hernández on a successful viva of his PhD thesis, and on the publication of a monograph based on his doctoral research, Ingeniería e ingenieros en Matanzas. Defensa y obras públicas entre 1693 y 1868 (Seville: Athenaica, 2019). Ignacio’s research was supported by ARTES through an ARTES Coll&Cortés Travel Scholarship whichContinue reading “More News from ARTES Scholars”
Opens Today: Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, until 19 May 2019
The Phillips Collection presents the first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana). This long-overdue exhibition examines the artist’s prolific yet largely unknown career that spans almost 70 years, featuring more than 60 works including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, and sculptural pieces, alongside illustrations, design sketches, and ephemera. The exhibition traces Sánchez’s artistic journeyContinue reading “Opens Today: Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, until 19 May 2019”
Featured Exhibitions: Lucio Fontana. On the Threshold, Met Breuer/Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968), El Museo del Barrio, New York, until 14 April 2019
The first major survey of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) in the United States in more than forty years, this exhibition will reexamine the career of one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. The Argentine-Italian artist is widely known for his Cuts series, slashed paintings that became symbols of the postwar era. The exhibitionContinue reading “Featured Exhibitions: Lucio Fontana. On the Threshold, Met Breuer/Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968), El Museo del Barrio, New York, until 14 April 2019”
News from ARTES Scholars
ARTES warmly congratulates Ana Dias on a successful viva of her PhD thesis, ‘The Apocalypse in early medieval Iberia: the function and impact of the illuminated “Beatus”’. Ana’s research at Durham University was supported by ARTES through a PhD Scholarship (2015) and an ARTES Coll&Cortes Travel Scholarship (2017). We are also pleased to announce the publicationContinue reading “News from ARTES Scholars”
CSA Curatorial Fellowship at the Meadows Museum, Dallas
The Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, has announced that the Center for Spain in America (CSA) will support the museum’s pre-doctoral curatorial fellowship for 2019–2020. Established in 2011, the pre-doctoral fellowship provides an intensive scholarly, professional experience with the opportunity to research Spanish art at the Meadows and other national and international institutions. CSA will alsoContinue reading “CSA Curatorial Fellowship at the Meadows Museum, Dallas”
Closing Soon: Cristina Iglesias: entrǝspacios/interspaces, Fundación Botín, Santander, closes 3 March 2019
A recipient of Spain’s National Visual Arts Award in 1999, Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastián, 1956) is an internationally renowned Spanish artist. This exhibition consists of a huge collection of pieces that will be on display on the second floor of the west wing of the Centro Botín. Well-known for her sculptural pieces with hanging pavilions,Continue reading “Closing Soon: Cristina Iglesias: entrǝspacios/interspaces, Fundación Botín, Santander, closes 3 March 2019”
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