Call for Participation: 12 junior scholars to join the research group “Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas” A Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Project co-directed by Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo, Columbia University Deadline: Mar 31, 2016 The co-directors of the Connecting Art History project “Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas” seek twelve junior scholarsContinue reading “Call for Participation: Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas”
Category Archives: Latin America
Art from the Andes: Spanish Colonial Paintings (Portland)
Art from the Andes: Spanish Colonial Paintings from the Elvin A. Duerst Bequest Portland Art Museum, Maine 19 December 2015 – 20 March 2016 Art from the Andes features distinctive religious paintings that illustrate the creative melding of cultures in the Andes following the Spanish conquest. The paintings were left to the Museum by ElvinContinue reading “Art from the Andes: Spanish Colonial Paintings (Portland)”
Exhibition: Collecting the Arts of Mexico (New York)
Collecting the Arts of Mexico Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Exhibition: July 17, 2015–August 7, 2016 Includes five recently acquired eighteenth-century paintings on copper by the Mexican artist Nicolás Enríquez for a Spanish patron.
Exhibition: Masterworks of Spanish Colonial Art from Phoenix Art Museum’s Collection
Masterworks of Spanish Colonial Art from Phoenix Art Museum’s Collection Exhibition: 5 September 2015 – 28 February 2016 Symposium: Wednesday, 30 September 2015, Phoenix Art Museum (free): Speakers on Spanish Colonial art include Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Sharon Fredrick, Jaime Lara, and Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol.
Exhibition: Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia (Boston, Winterthur)
Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 18 August 2015 – 15 February 2016 Moves to Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, 26 March 2016 – 8 January 2017 Survey exhibition of 94 items drawn from across the Americas from Canada to Peru all of which show influence ofContinue reading “Exhibition: Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia (Boston, Winterthur)”
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 – Coll & Cortés – London Art 2015 Week – 3-10 July 2015
Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas
Exhibition: Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Two-part exhibition: (1) 20 September 2014 – 14 June 2015 (2) July 2015 – 2016 A two-part exhibition, the first phase of which features seven paintings on loan from two of the United States’ most distinguished collections of colonialContinue reading “Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas”
Joaquín Torres-García retrospective, New York
Forthcoming exhibition Joaquín Torres-García Museum of Modern Art, New York October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016 Works ranging from the late 19th century to the 1940s, and includes drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist notebooks and rare publications will be on show.
Frida Kahlo: New York
Exhibition: Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life New York Botanical Garden 16 May – 1 November 2015 Focuses on 14 of Kahlo’s late-career floral still-lifes and features a series of plantings inspired by her garden at the Casa Azul in Mexico City.
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