CFP: Zurbarán and his Reception in Art History (Düsseldorf, January 2016)

Call for Papers: The Discovery of the Inconspicuous: Body, Materiality and Narrativity in the Work of Francisco de Zurbarán and his Reception in Art History Annual conference of the Carl Justi Association for the Promotion of Art Historical Cooperation with Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America, in cooperation with Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and the Department of Art History of the Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätContinue reading “CFP: Zurbarán and his Reception in Art History (Düsseldorf, January 2016)”

Exhibitions: London – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network’s Summer Shows – 23 June -12 Sept 2015

SCAN – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network SATURATION | New Spanish Painting In an image-saturated age, digital media, internet, television, film, and video entertain, inform and surround us every waking hour. Hand-held technologies have made us not only incessant consumers but also constant maker/editors of images. The artistic value of the painted image has been inContinue reading “Exhibitions: London – The Spanish Contemporary Art Network’s Summer Shows – 23 June -12 Sept 2015”

Exhibition: Miró y el Mori el Merma, Valencia

Miró y el Mori el Merma Centro del Carmen, Valencia 11 June – 13 September In 1978 Miró collaborated with the theatre company Teatre de la Claca to design, decorate and produce the masks and giant puppet figures for their production of Mori el Merma a play based on Alfred Jarry’s tyrannical Ubu figure, whomContinue reading “Exhibition: Miró y el Mori el Merma, Valencia”

CFP: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edinburgh, April 2016

Call for Papers: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries Association of Art Historians University of Edinburgh 7-9 April 2016 Convened by Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh) and Anna McSweeney (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to theContinue reading “CFP: Orientalism and Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edinburgh, April 2016”

Position at the Bowes Museum: Assistant Curator of Fine Art Specialising in Spanish Art

The Bowes Museum is seeking an Assistant Curator of Fine Art to join its curatorial team. The postholder will curate an internationally renowned collection of European art spanning five centuries and will have an interest in, and preferably a good knowledge of, Spanish art. The Bowes Museum and Auckland Castle are partners, and have betweenContinue reading “Position at the Bowes Museum: Assistant Curator of Fine Art Specialising in Spanish Art”

CFP: Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Leuven, 4-6 February 2016)

CFP: Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain International conference, University of Leuven, Belgium, 04. – 06 February 2016 Deadline: Oct 1, 2015 Initiated and organized by Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art, KU Leuven.  In 2010, Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art (KU Leuven) acquired the archive of theContinue reading “CFP: Netherlandish Art and Luxury Goods in Renaissance Spain (Leuven, 4-6 February 2016)”

CFP: The Alhambra in a Global Context (Zürich, 16-17 September 2016)

CFP: The Power of Symbols: The Alhambra in a Global Context Zürich, September 16 – 17, 2016 Deadline for submission: 1 September 2015 Organisers: Prof. Dr. Francine Giese / Dr. Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zürich) Keynote Speakers: Fernando Valdés Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) / Pedro A. Galera Andreu (Universidad de Jaén) The following sections areContinue reading “CFP: The Alhambra in a Global Context (Zürich, 16-17 September 2016)”

Exhibiton: Miró, Düsseldorf

Installationsansicht der Ausstellung “Miró. Malerei als Poesie” im K20 Grabbeplatz, Foto: Achim Kukulies, © Successió Miró / VG Bild-Kunst 2015   Miró: Malerei als Poesie (Miró: Painting as Poetry) Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf 13 June – 27 September 2015 Previously on at the Bucerius KunstForum, Hamburg, now on in an expanded form. Exhibition of about 50Continue reading “Exhibiton: Miró, Düsseldorf”

Exhibition: Francisco de Zurbarán, Madrid

Zurbarán: A New Perspective; Zurbarán: una nueva mirada Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 9 June – 13 September 2015 The exhibition will include the recently conserved St Serapion — click here for video  (before its redisplay in the new European galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut), and aims to provide a new insight into the artist’s work byContinue reading “Exhibition: Francisco de Zurbarán, Madrid”