Highlights /4 events you can't miss in the next 4 weeks

- Visual arts
- St. Petersburg
Dalí & the Impressionists: Monet, Renoir, Degas & more
The exhibition at The Dalí Museum explores Salvador Dalí’s profound engagement with the Impressionist movement, which played a pivotal role in his early artistic journey.
November 18, 2023 – April 28, 2024

- Visual arts
- Chicago
Picasso: Drawing from Life
This exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago centers on Picasso’s works on paper, bringing into focus the artist’s life and art as it intersected with a network of artists, dealers, printers, family members, and lovers.
November 11, 2023 – April 8, 2024

- Visual arts
- Syracuse
Illustrating Spain in the US: the exhibition in Syracuse
The comic strips from “Illustrating Spain in the US” come back in their exhibit form to Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.
September 5, 2023 – December 30, 2023

- Visual arts
- United States
Picasso Celebration 1973-2023
“Picasso Celebration 1973-2023” commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of the Spanish artist with exhibitions and events around Europe and the U.S.
January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
All events / 28 current and upcoming events around the U.S. in the next 4 weeks

- Music
- Washington, D.C.
Spanish Young Music Talents: Tomás Ocaña in Washington, DC
Spanish clarinetist and composer Tomás Ocaña gives a recital at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain as part of the “Spanish Young Music Talents” program.
Dec 13, 2023

- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
DC.es | A Gaze at Washington, D.C. by five Spanish Photographers
This exhibition is the culmination of a project that gathers the work of five Spanish artists and their personal outlooks of the world’s political capital.
Dec 7 – Mar 15, 2024

- Film
- Washington, D.C.
2023 AFI European Union Film Showcase
Now in its 36th edition, the “AFI European Union Film Showcase” continues its tradition of bringing the best in European cinema to Washington, DC-area audiences, including the screening of four acclaimed Spanish films.
Dec 2 – Dec 16, 2023

- Science
- Washington, D.C.
ECUSA Seminar Series. A New Era in Astronomy: The James Webb Space Telescope Celebrates Science
Discover the intricacies of the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the latest scientific developments in the field of astronomy, in a conversation with NASA experts in this new edition of ECUSA Washington DC Seminar Series.
Nov 30, 2023

- Performing arts
- New Orleans
The Fandango a La Luisiana: 2nd Annual Chateau Flamenco Festival
This one-night-only festival features award-winning flamenco artists on a U.S. tour, performing alongside New Orleans-based artists to reproduce the art of flamenco as it originated in the Spanish New Orleans era.
Nov 29, 2023

- Film
- Washington, D.C.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Film Series
Join Spain and Colombia in celebrating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with the screening of two Spanish films.
Nov 29 – Nov 30, 2023

- Visual arts
- St. Petersburg
Dalí & the Impressionists: Monet, Renoir, Degas & more
The exhibition at The Dalí Museum explores Salvador Dalí’s profound engagement with the Impressionist movement, which played a pivotal role in his early artistic journey.
Nov 18 – Apr 28, 2024

- Visual arts
- Chicago
Picasso: Drawing from Life
This exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago centers on Picasso’s works on paper, bringing into focus the artist’s life and art as it intersected with a network of artists, dealers, printers, family members, and lovers.
Nov 11 – Apr 8, 2024

- Film
- Washington, D.C.
Mujeres de Cine 2023: We Count
The Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C. presents the 8th edition of “Mujeres de Cine,” entitled “We Count”, with in person and online screenings available throughout the US.
Nov 6 – Nov 30, 2023

- Visual arts
- New York
Picasso and The Spanish Classics
This exhibition at The Hispanic Society of America showcases Picasso’s reinterpretations of Spanish literary classics.
Nov 2 – Feb 4, 2024

- Visual arts
- New York
Global Mode > by Eva Davidova
Eva Davidova’s interactive installation weaves ancient myths and modern issues, inviting visitors to influence stories via their own body movement, thereby fostering reflection on interdependence in an era of ecological challenges.
Oct 19 – Feb 11, 2024

- Visual arts
- New York
Picasso in Fontainebleau
The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents an exhibition on the Spanish painter Picasso that explores the artist’s paintings made during the summer of 1921 in Fontainebleau.
Oct 4 – Feb 17, 2024

- Visual arts
- Dallas
Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collection
On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Joaquín Sorolla’s death, the Meadows Museum has organized an exhibition that showcases some unique and never-shown works by the Spanish painter.
Sep 17 – Jan 7, 2024

- Visual arts
- New York
Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an exhibition that explores a less known chapter of the Spanish painter, Picasso, where he explored and played with cubism.
Sep 14 – Jan 14, 2024

- Visual arts
- Syracuse
Illustrating Spain in the US: the exhibition in Syracuse
The comic strips from “Illustrating Spain in the US” come back in their exhibit form to Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.
Sep 5 – Dec 30, 2023

- Literature
- Iowa City
Brenda Navarro at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
Mexican-Spanish author Brenda Navarro joins The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa for the 2023 edition of it annual residency.
Aug 19 – Nov 30, 2023

- Visual arts
- New York
Compostela Fractal Shell by Manuel Ferreiro Badía
Hunter’s Point South Park hosts until the end of June 2024 “Compostela Fractal Shell,” a new sculpture by Spanish sculptor Manuel Ferreiro Badía.
Jul 8 – Jun 30, 2024

- Sketching the future
- Washington, D.C.
Spain's Presidency of the Council of the EU by democràcia® estudio
On the occasion of Spain’s Presidency of the EU Council, the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC presents a banner with a graphic design to show the union between Spain and the EU, designed by democràcia® estudio.
Jul 1 – Dec 31, 2023

- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
DC.es: Washington Store by Jesús Madriñán
Jesús Madriñán is the third guest of DC.es, a project where five Spanish photographers from the Spanish Academy in Rome share their gazes of Washington through their lenses — gazes as personal, singular and unique as the city itself.
Jun 28 – Nov 30, 2023

- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions
On the 125th anniversary of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Philippine War, this exhibition of more than 90 artworks examines this pivotal period through the lens of portraiture and visual culture.
Apr 28 – Feb 25, 2024