Exhibition: El mundo al revés: El calotipo en España: Pamplona

Exhibition: El mundo al revés: El calotipo en España Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona 22 January – 26 April 2015 Brings together some 160 works of both negatives and positives, many from the University’s own collection. Featured calotypes include Claudius Galen Wheelhouse’s views of Cádiz and Seville taken in 1849, and work by Charles Clifford.Continue reading “Exhibition: El mundo al revés: El calotipo en España: Pamplona”

Exhibition: La colección de María Josefa Huarte: Abstracción y modernidad: Pamplona

La colección de María Josefa Huarte: Abstracción y modernidad Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 22 January – 31 August 2015 Inaugural exhibition in Pamplona’s newly opened gallery of modern art, designed by Rafael Moneo. Showcases the 48 paintings and sculptures presented to the University by María Josefa Huarte. Includes works by Picasso, Oteiza and Tàpies. Catalogue of theContinue reading “Exhibition: La colección de María Josefa Huarte: Abstracción y modernidad: Pamplona”

EXHIBITION – Gloria Ceballos – Instituto Cervantes London – 12 Feb-15 March 2015

EXHIBITION The Instituto Cervantes 102 Eaton Square London SW1W 9AN 12 Feb – 13 March 2015 Gloria Ceballos: Nature a Cultural Artefact This exhibition focuses on Gloria Ceballos’s continuing study into our relationship with nature. As city inhabitants our experiences of nature are restricted to parks, gardens and other green areas: “cultured nature”. We call green spacesContinue reading “EXHIBITION – Gloria Ceballos – Instituto Cervantes London – 12 Feb-15 March 2015”

Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France: Frick Collection, New York

Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France Exhibition, The Frick Collection, New York 25 February 2015 – 17 May 2015 Charles Coypel (1694−1752), painter to Louis XV, created a series of twenty-eight paintings (also called cartoons) to be woven into tapestries by the Gobelins manufactory in Paris. Twenty-seven were painted between 1714Continue reading “Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France: Frick Collection, New York”

El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid

El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, exhibition, Palacio Real, Madrid, 4 December 2014 – 19 April 2015. Paintings and sculptures produced for the Spanish Court. Includes Ribera’s Don Juan Jose de Austria on Horseback; and the contemporary group portrait of the present royal family by Antonio Lopez, which apparently tookContinue reading “El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid”

Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America, Denver

Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America. Exhibition, Denver Art Museum, 7 December 2014 – 27 February 2016. During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. Displaying their wealth and status, people wereContinue reading “Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America, Denver”

Goya: Order and Disorder, Boston: Exhibition closes 19 January 2015

Goya: Order and Disorder, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition closes 19 January 2015. exhibition dedicated to Spanish master Francisco Goya (1746–1828). The largest retrospective of the artist to take place in America in 25 years, this exhibition features 170 paintings, prints and drawings. It includes many loans from Europe and the US, including 21 works fromContinue reading “Goya: Order and Disorder, Boston: Exhibition closes 19 January 2015”

El Greco in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exhibition closes 1st February 2015

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 MuseoContinue reading “El Greco in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Exhibition closes 1st February 2015”

Exhibition: Dibujos españoles en la Hamburger Kunsthalle, Prado, Madrid

Spanish Drawings from the Hamburger Kunsthalle: Cano, Murillo and Goya, Museo del Prado, 30 October 2014 – 8 February 2015. Previously on display as The Grand Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to Goya from the Hamburger Kunsthalle, at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, this exhibition has moved to the  Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. A significant percentage of the collection,Continue reading “Exhibition: Dibujos españoles en la Hamburger Kunsthalle, Prado, Madrid”

Spanish Art Symposium – Auckland Castle, The Bowes Museum & Durham University – Thursday 23 October to Saturday 25 October 2014

A symposium on Spanish Art will take place from 23-25 October in Co Durham, highlighting collections in the area and launching a book on treasures of Spanish Art in Country Durham. The three-day event will include exclusive access to view Zurbarán’s Jacob and his Twelve Sons and a conference dinner at Auckland Castle. Below is a provisionalContinue reading “Spanish Art Symposium – Auckland Castle, The Bowes Museum & Durham University – Thursday 23 October to Saturday 25 October 2014”