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”
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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”
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”
Exhibition: Picasso and the Mediterranean, @ Fundación Canal, Madrid
Picasso and the Mediterranean Fundación Canal, Calle Mateo Inurria, Madrid 1 June – 15 August 2017 Free exhibition of 91 works, mainly ceramics and prints, selected from the Picasso Museo Casa Natal in Málaga. About half the exhibition is devoted to the inspiration Picasso drew from bull-fighting and its rituals and includes his series ofContinue reading “Exhibition: Picasso and the Mediterranean, @ Fundación Canal, Madrid”
Closing Soon: Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms @ Met Breuer, New York, 21 March – 23 July 2017
The first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). A critical figure in the development of Brazilian modern art, and a pioneer of the Neo-Concrete movement. Pape combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space in unique ways that radically transformed the nature of the art objectContinue reading “Closing Soon: Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms @ Met Breuer, New York, 21 March – 23 July 2017”
Closing soon: México 1900–1950 (Dallas)
México 1900–1950 Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde Dallas Museum of Art 12 March – 16 July, 2017 Major exhibition exploring 50 years of Mexican modern art. Following its showing at the Grand Palais, Paris, this is the exhibition’s only US venue. The result of a combined cultural endeavour between MexicoContinue reading “Closing soon: México 1900–1950 (Dallas)”
Closing soon: Picasso and Naples: Parade
Picasso and Naples: Parade Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, and the Antiquarium, Pompeii 8 April-10 July 2017 Exhibition across two venues celebrating the centennial of Picasso’s trip to Italy in 1917. The artist arrived in Rome on February 18, 1917, in the company of Jean Cocteau, with whom he was working on the designs for Parade, aContinue reading “Closing soon: Picasso and Naples: Parade”
Closing soon: Picasso Primitif (Paris)
Picasso Primitif Musée de Quai Branly, Paris 28 March – 23 July 2017 As evidenced by the exhibition’s documents, letters, objects and photographs, Picasso’s personal collection of the arts of Africa, Oceania, the Americas and Asia accompanied him in his moves from one studio to the next. The aim is not to show anyContinue reading “Closing soon: Picasso Primitif (Paris)”
Two exhibitions, Picasso Museum, Málaga
Fundacion Picasso Museo Picasso – Casa Natal, Málaga 16 March – 11 June 2017 Two exhibitions: A total of 88 works by 49 artist contemporaries of Picasso, including Rafael Barradas, Francisco Bores, Chillida, Dalí, Gris, Maruja Mallo, and Moreno Villa, on display in two exhibitions: Arte recuperado (1916-1957): La modernidad española en la ACAC (AsociaciónContinue reading “Two exhibitions, Picasso Museum, Málaga”
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