El Greco in New York (New York, Metropolitan Museum). Exhibition closes 1st February 2015.
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, New York’s Metropolitan Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are pooling their collections of the work of this great painter to provide a panorama of his art unrivaled outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The Frick Collection is displaying its El Greco paintings contemporaneously in the exhibition El Greco at the Frick Collection.
The Frick Collection, New York:
El Greco at the Frick Collection. Exhibition closes on 1st February 2015.
Henry Clay Frick had a deep appreciation for Spanish painting, particularly the work of El Greco. Frick traveled to Spain twice and acquired three works by the artist between 1905 and 1913. Here they are displayed side by side for the first time.
This exhibiton is in concert with El Greco in New York (also closing on 1st February 2015)at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Together, the two exhibitions show all of El Greco’s work in New York public collections and mark the 400th anniversary of the painter’s death.
The Frick Collection, New York, Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 6:00–7:00PM: “Demystifying El Greco: His Use of Wax, Clay, and Plaster Models“. Lecture by Xavier Bray, Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London).
Free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis; reservations not accepted.
An inventory of El Greco’s studio made in 1614 at the time of his death lists some fifty models of plaster, clay, and wax. This lecture will consider how these models may have been used and the role they may have played in the creation of his quintessentially other-worldly style.
The event is held in conjunction with the exhibition, El Greco at the Frick Collection, on view until 1st February2015.
New York: The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting is holding a symposium, “El Greco Comes to America,” on Monday, January 26, 2015, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Registration is required if you wish to attend this free event.
Speakers: Ellen Prokop, Susan Grace Galassi, Marcus Burke, Walter Liedtke, Xavier Salomon, José Luis Colomer, Richard Kagan, and Amaya Alzaga Ruiz. Papers focus on individual collectors including Arabella Huntington, Louisine Havemeyer, Henry Clay Frick, Peter Widener, and Duncan Phillips, and also discuss the impact of exhibitions and the role of artist-advisers such as Mary Cassatt and Roger Fry.
As of 5 January 2015, the British Library’s current self-service copying arrangements will be extended to include photography using Readers’ own compact cameras, tablets and mobile phones.
For further details click here.
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal).
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 6-9, 2015.
Organiser: James D’Emilio, Department of Humanities, University of South Florida.
Five sessions:
Session 1016: Wednesday, July 8, 9:00 – 10:30
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), I: Early Medieval Galicia
Session 1116: Wednesday, July 8, 11:15 – 12:45
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), II: The Power of Tradition in the 11th- and 12th-Century Leonese Church
Session 1216: Wednesday, July 8, 14:15 – 15:45
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), III: Women’s Religious Communities
Session 1316: Wednesday, July 8, 16:30 – 18:00
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), IV: Cistercians and Their Patrons
Session 1516: Thursday, July 9, 9:00 – 10:30
The Church in Western Iberia (León, Asturias, Galicia, and Portugal), V: Books, Libraries, and Archives
Download the complete provisional programme and list of speakers here.
The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is organised and administered by the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS). Since its start in 1994, the Congress has established itself as an annual event with an attendance of over 1,800 medievalists from all over the world. It is the largest conference of its kind in Europe.
Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies: Best Article Prize (2015). The editors of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS) and Routledge announce the first annual $500 prize for the most outstanding article published in JMIS in 2015.
All articles published in JMIS in 2015 will automatically be considered for the Best Article Prize, and all submissions received during the calendar year 2014 will be considered for publication in 2015.
We welcome work that engages peninsular Iberia in relation to other parts of the ‘post-classical’ world, which explores links of colonization and exchange with the Maghreb, addresses Iberia’s presence in the Mediterranean, or adopts a transatlantic frame.
The prize will be awarded by a panel of judges appointed by the Editor-in-Chief of JMIS. The judges’ decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
All submissions should be uploaded electronically through our online submission system (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmis).
The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (JMIS) is an interdisciplinary journal for innovative scholarship on the multiple languages, cultures, and historical processes of the Iberian Peninsula, and the zones with which it was in contact. We encourage submission of all innovative scholarship of interest to the community of medievalists and Iberianists. JMIS, which aims to bring theoretically informed approaches into creative contact with more empirically minded scholarship, encompasses archaeology, art and architecture, music, philosophy and religious studies, as well as history, codicology, manuscript studies and the multiple Arabic, Latin, Romance, and Hebrew linguistic and literary traditions of Iberia.
Please direct any inquiries to Simon R. Doubleday, Hofstra University.
The Fundación Carolina (Spain) has released its call for scholarship applications, 2015-2016, in a variety of fields including “artes, humanidades, y comunicación”. Applications are not limited to individuals in Spanish-speaking countries; the Fundación Carolina invites applications from Brazilian scholars, too.
The range of support appears to extend, for example, to students working on doctoral degrees as well as to postdoctoral applicants.
For further details, go to: <http://www.fundacioncarolina.es/formacion/convocatoria-2015-2016/>.
The Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies at Birkbeck
warmly invites you to the seminar
Nouvelle Vague Tango: Hugo Santiago’s Invasión
with
Brad Epps (University of Cambridge)
Tuesday 2 December 6.00pm, Room 417, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Sq.), Birkbeck, University of London, Main Building, London WC1E 7HX
Invasión, one of the most celebrated and least seen and studied ‘cult’ films in the history of Argentine cinema, is rife with secrets, enigmas, and riddles, ellipses and tropes of estrangement. Its screenplay was written by Hugo Santiago, its director, in collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges, that master of conundrum and paradox, from a story penned by Borges in collaboration with his friend Adolfo Bioy Casares. This paper examines some of the political and aesthetic implications of a film in which sound and sight are anything but unobstructed, communication and perception anything but straightforward, meaning anything but clear, and identity anything but sure and stable.
Brad Epps is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge
For more details visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/events#Epps
All welcome, but registration is required. Please follow the link below to register.
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nouvelle-vague-tango-hugo-santiagos-invasion-tickets-8874595153
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