Exhibition: Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso Museu Picasso, Barcelona 20 March-28 June 2015 Exhibition organized by the Barcelona museum and the Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida to explore the mutual admiration and rivalry between these two key figures in twentieth-century art. Art works and documents from the time reveal the counterpoints and contradictions throughout their relationship, from theirContinue reading “Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso: Barcelona”
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Michel Leiris, Metz
Exhibition: Leiris & Co: Picasso, Masson, Miró, Giacometti, Lam, Bacon. . . Centre Pompidou, Metz, France 3 April – 14 September 2015 A cross-disciplinary exhibition focusing on Michel Leiris, the writer, anthropologist, bull-fighting aficionado, and Africanist curator at the Musée de l’Homme, who formed friendships with artists such as Picasso and Miró amongst others. TheContinue reading “Michel Leiris, Metz”
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, Denver
Exhibition: Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination Denver Art Museum 22 March – 28 June 2015 The exhibition Miró: The Experience of Seeing of works by Miró from the last two decades of his career (1963-1981) organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from its own collections, and touring venues in America, hasContinue reading “Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, Denver”
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.
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York
Exhibition: Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 New York, Museum of Modern Art March 29, 2015–July 19, 2015 Brings together models, drawings and archival photographs as well as new photography of key buildings, not only those by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and Mexican Luis Barragán but also less well known structures by Cuban architects, suchContinue reading “Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York”
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit
Exhibition: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit Detroit Institute of Arts Focuses on the couple’s work in the 1930s boom-town motor-city and Kahlo’s increasing adoption of traditional Mexican dress and symbolism in her work as a reaction against the American city’s elite. Around 70 works are on display, including eight of Rivera’s preparatory drawingsContinue reading “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit”
Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor
Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire The Portuguese sculptor has unveiled the latest of her installations: a monumental pair of 7-metre-tall candlesticks created from glass wine bottles, on display at the North entrance of the 19th-century country house of the Rothschild family at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. They have been bought for the Manor’s contemporary artContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor”
Itinerarios XXI, Fundación Botín, Santander, 28 March – 31 May 2015 Exhibition of works by nine Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American contemporary artists who are the recipients of the 21st Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grants for 2013-2014. Carles Congost (Gerona, 1970), Albert Corbí (Valencia, 1976), Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979), Jon Mikel Euba (Vizcaya, 1967), RodrigoContinue reading
Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015
Equipo Crónica, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015 The most extensive retrospective to date of nearly 150 paintings, drawings, prints, posters and sculptures, covering Equipo Crónica’s entire creative career from 1964 when three Valencian artists, Rafael Solbes (1940-1981), Manuel Valdés (1942) and Juan Antonio Toledo (1940-1995) established the group, to 1981Continue reading “Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015”
Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015
Helena Almeida, Inhabited Drawings/Desenhos habitados, showing at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Great Titfield Street, London W1W 6RV, 27 March – 22 May, along with work by her Madeira-born contemporary Lourdes Castro (b.1930). This is the first London show for Portuguese artist Helena Almeida, a student of the University of Fine Art, Lisbon, who has developed aContinue reading “Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015”
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