EXHIBITION – Luster and Luxe from Islamic Spain: Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds

Curated by Filiz Çakır PhillipMAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, TurinFebruary 1st – May 28th 2023 The MAO Museo di Arte Orientale 2023 programme is starting off with a new project devoted to Islamic art and the results produced by its influence over the centuries in Europe and the Mediterranean basin.  A timely exhibition that takes anContinue reading “EXHIBITION – Luster and Luxe from Islamic Spain: Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds”

New and noteworthy exhibition openings in Spain, October 2020

Obras maestras de la colección Valdés, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, 7 October 2020 – 1 February 2021. The first exhibition devoted to the art collection of the Bilbao businessman Félix Fernández-Valdés (1895- 1976), 4 of whose paintings entered the Prado’s collection after his death and others are now distributed around other public and privateContinue reading “New and noteworthy exhibition openings in Spain, October 2020”

Opens Today: Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Art Institute of Chicago, until 23 June 2019

Over the course of millennia, textiles were the primary form of aesthetic expression and communication for the diverse cultures that developed throughout the desert coasts and mountain highlands of the Andean region. Worn as garments, suspended on walls of temples and homes, and used in ritual settings, textiles functioned in multiple contexts, yet, within eachContinue reading “Opens Today: Super/Natural: Textiles of the Andes, Art Institute of Chicago, until 23 June 2019”

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.