Events taking place on December 8, 2022
Events 1–16 of 23
- Literature
- Washington, D.C.
Spain’s 1939 Exiles in the Americas and Maryland
Spanish writer José María Naharro-Calderón presents his book “Spain’s 1939 Exiles in the Americas and Maryland – Eighty Years, Alive in Our Hearts.”
Dec 8, 2022
- Visual arts
- Online
Sargent and Spain: A Webinar with Simon Edmondson and Eva Salmerón
Artists Simon Edmondson and Eva Salmerón discuss the current art scene, their commonalities with Sargent, and inspiration by Spanish culture.
Dec 8, 2022
- Film
- Washington, D.C.
2022 AFI European Union Film Showcase
The 35th edition of the AFI European Union Film Showcase brings the best European cinema to D.C. audiences, representing all 27 E.U. member states and including the screening of two acclaimed Spanish films.
Dec 3 – Dec 13, 2022
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
Not Your Regular Wall: Ode to Dune Plants by Lula Goce
The Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain hosts the fifth edition of “Not Your Regular Wall” with Spanish muralist Lula Goce as a guest of honor for the hall intervention.
Dec 1 – Dec 1, 2023
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
DC.es: Florida Ave by Juan Baraja
Juan Baraja is the first guest of DC.es, a project where six 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.
Dec 1 – Mar 1, 2023
- Design
- Houston
Building Ecologies: Collective Urban Infrastructures in Houston
Spanish architect Juan José Castellón exhibits a modular installation proposing new models of urban infrastructures and collective spaces for social interaction.
Nov 9 – Apr 20, 2023
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
American Democracy
Created by the Spanish collective PSJM, “American Democracy” is an installation made up of 59 historical paintings –a painterly portrait of Americas’s political history rendered geometrically.
Oct 27 – Apr 14, 2023
- Heritage
- New Orleans
Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean
This bilingual exhibition brings together 125 rarely-seen items from the holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection and institutions across Spain and the United States to shed light on the Spanish heritage of New Orleans.
Oct 20 – Jan 22, 2023
- Visual arts
- New York
Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
The Metropolitan Museum presents this exhibition on the occasion of the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso, offer a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its engagement with the age-old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting.
Oct 20 – Jan 22, 2023
- Visual arts
- Dallas
Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue
This exhibition unites for the first time Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” (c. 1663) and Salvador Dalí’s interpretation thereof, “The Image Disappears” (1938).
Oct 16 – Jan 15, 2023
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
Photography and Travel in Sargent’s Spain
“Photography and Travel in Sargent’s Spain” draws upon photographs and printed matter from Sargent’s contemporary, illustrating another view of Spain at his time.
Oct 3 – Dec 30, 2022
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
Sargent and Spain
“Sargent and Spain” presents 120 oils, watercolors, and drawings rarely exhibited, paintings of the artist’s fascination with Spain. The exhibition also features 28 never-before published photographs from the artist’s travels.
Oct 2 – Jan 2, 2023
- Visual arts
- Washington, D.C.
Not Only What, But Also How
“Not Only What, But Also How” offers a review of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals conducted by Spanish artists and organizations that will provide the opportunity to take a closer look at the 2030 Agenda.
Sep 22 – Mar 31, 2024
- Heritage
- New York
Illustrating Spain in the US: the exhibition in New York
As part of its 25th Anniversary Program, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, along with the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C., presents the exhibition “Illustrating Spain in the US.”
Sep 20 – Dec 16, 2022
- Visual arts
- Dallas
Murillo: From Heaven to Earth
This special exhibition celebrates the genre paintings of the Golden-age Spanish painter Murillo, with the largest collection of the artist’s paintings in the U.S. in 20 years.
Sep 18 – Jan 29, 2023
- Visual arts
- San Diego
Picasso Drawings and Prints at The San Diego Museum of Art
This exhibition showcases 17 paper works by Pablo Picasso, apart from one ink drawing by Henri Matisse and a ceramic piece by the Spanish artist, all of them from the Museum’s permanent collection.
Jul 30 – Jan 29, 2023