Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain (Santa Fe)

Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (Santa Fe) Open until 28 February 2016. This exhibition, in a sense, is complementary to The Red that Colored the World, recently on view at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe).  The cochineal exhibition is due to openContinue reading “Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain (Santa Fe)”

Film screening: The Apocalyptic Visions of Heaven and Hell which Shaped Medieval Art

Film Screening, followed by Q&A: The Apocalyptic Visions of Heaven and Hell which Shaped Medieval Art Monday 12 October 2015 – 6:00 pm   Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, UK, WC2R 0RN. Further information: 2015.10.12_Beatus film screening  

Lecture: The Ceramics Collection of the Portuguese Royal Family (Wallace Collection, London)

Lecture The Ceramics Collection of the Portuguese Royal Family: the King Consort’s Collection By Maria de Jesus Monge, Director of the Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança, Vila Viço Wallace Collection, London Monday, 28 September, 5:30 – 6:30PM Admission free.

El legado de al-Ándalus: Las antigüedades árabes en los dibujos de la Academia (Madrid)

Exhibition El legado de al-Ándalus: Las antigüedades árabes en los dibujos de la Academia Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando Madrid 22 September – 8 December 2015 Includes 175 works, the majority drawings along with six paintings and various prints from the Academy’s collections which illustrate Moorish antiquities from Andalucia. Online catalogue, byContinue reading “El legado de al-Ándalus: Las antigüedades árabes en los dibujos de la Academia (Madrid)”

Golden Age of Neapolitan Painting (Montpellier, Musée Fabre)

The Golden Age of Neapolitan Painting From Ribera to Giordano Exhibition, Musée Fabre, Montpellier 20 June to 11 October 2015 A national loan exhibition exploring 17th-century Neapolitan painting displaying about ten works by Ribera, including his Portrait of a Club-footed Boy, shown alongside work by his Neapolitan contemporaries.

SelgasCano, Serpentine Pavilion 2015 (London: 25 June – 18 October 2015)

SelgasCano has designed the 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park, London Open to visitors until 18 October 2015. The Spanish architectural practice SelgasCano unveiled the 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on the lawns outside the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park on 25 June. It has been designed as multifunctional reception and café spaceContinue reading “SelgasCano, Serpentine Pavilion 2015 (London: 25 June – 18 October 2015)”

Jaume Plensa in Chicago

Jaume Plensa: 1004 Portraits Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 17 June 2014 – 1 December 2015. Four of Plensa’s portrait heads in stone and cast iron, ranging from 21 to 36 foot in height, are on display in Chicago’s Millenium Park to celebrate its 10th anniversary. They continue the story of the Barcelona-based Plensa’s original 1000Continue reading “Jaume Plensa in Chicago”

Exhibition: Tiempos de melancolia (Valladolid, Valencia and Palma de Mallorca)

Tiempos de melancolía. Creación y desengaño en la España del Siglo de Oro Museo Nacional de Escultura, Palacio de Villena, Valladolid 2 July – 12 October, 201. Then touring to: Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia 4 November 2015 – 7 February 2016 CaixaForum, Palma de Mallorca 2 March – 11 June 2016. Thematic andContinue reading “Exhibition: Tiempos de melancolia (Valladolid, Valencia and Palma de Mallorca)”

EXHIBITION Art in Naples, a Golden Age 20 June – 11 Oct 2015 Musée Fabre, Montepellier, France

The Musée Fabre is showing Art in Naples, a Golden Age from 20 June to 11 October 2015. This follows on from the highly successful Caravaggio exhibition held in 2012. In the XVIIth century Naples – second to Paris – was the most populated city in Europe and nearly Paris’ equal as a centre of art and culture.Continue reading “EXHIBITION Art in Naples, a Golden Age 20 June – 11 Oct 2015 Musée Fabre, Montepellier, France”