Picasso Sculpture (New York to Paris)

The exhibition Picasso Sculpture, previously showing some 140 works spanning 1902 to 1964 at MoMA, New York (until 7 February 2016), re-opens, in a reduced form, as Picasso: Scuptures (Musée Picasso, Paris: 8 March – 18 September 2016). MOMA installation reviewed by Rosalind McKeever, Burlington Magazine, December 2015 pp. 880-82 .  

Goya’s Duke of Osuna: from Frick to Prado

Goya: “Invited Work” Museo del Prado, Madrid1 9 January – 24 April 2016 For a period of three months, Room 34 of the Prado’s Villanueva Building is displaying Goya’s portrait of Don Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9th Duke of Osuna, one of the most interesting works by the artist among those housed inContinue reading “Goya’s Duke of Osuna: from Frick to Prado”

Goya – Portrait of Marianito – On Exhibition at Museo Ibercaja – Zaragoza – from January 2016

Goya’s portrait of his grandson Marianito has gone on exhibition at Ibercaja’s Museo Goya in Zaragoza. See the following link to an article on the exhibition by ARTES member,  Jesusa Vega, Professor of History of Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in last week’s ABC: Jesusa Vega, “Goya a su nieto”, ABC, 17 January 2016Continue reading “Goya – Portrait of Marianito – On Exhibition at Museo Ibercaja – Zaragoza – from January 2016”

Exhibition closing soon! The Divine Morales (Prado, Madrid; Bilbao; Barcelona)

El Divino Morales Museo del Prado, Madrid Exhibition closed 10 January 2016 Moves to: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 9 February – 16 May Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya, Barcelona, 16/06-16/09 2016. Nineteen works owned by the Prado, including the Christ on the Cross and the Resurrection gifted by Plácido Arango, plus 35 from national andContinue reading “Exhibition closing soon! The Divine Morales (Prado, Madrid; Bilbao; Barcelona)”

Zaragoza’s Retablo of St. Peter (Cincinnati)

Conservation on View: Zaragoza’s Retablo of St. Peter Cincinnati Art Museum 26 January 26 – 24 April 2016 A Spanish altarpiece of c.1400 by Lorenzo Zaragoza, an Aragonese artist active in fourteenth-century Valencia and Barcelona, will receive conservation treatment, by Serena Urry, in public view.  The accompanying press release is available as a PDF file by clicking here.

Dalí by Robert Descharnes (Dalí Museum)

Dalí Revealed: Candid Moments from the Artist’s Life Photographs by Robert Descharnes (1926-2014). Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida On view until Spring 2016 The photographer made the acquaintance of the Surrealist artist in 1950, while they were both traveling to the United States.

AAH CONFERENCE – ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19 & 20TH CENTURIES – 7-9 APRIL 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair University of Edinburgh 7 – 9 April 2016 ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURIES Convenors: Claudia Hopkins, University of Edinburgh, c.hopkins@ed.ac.uk Anna McSweeney, SOAS, University of London, am105@soas.ac.uk Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and culture of theContinue reading “AAH CONFERENCE – ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19 & 20TH CENTURIES – 7-9 APRIL 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH”