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Celebrating Women's International Day 2023: two exhibition openings
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Celebrating Women's International Day 2023: two exhibition openings

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain presents two exhibitions from Spanish photographers Paula Anta and Ana Amado.

Mar 8, 2023

Bread & Coffee by Ferran Torras
  • Visual arts
  • San Francisco

Bread & Coffee by Ferran Torras

“Bread & Coffee” is a solo show presented by Spanish artist Ferran Torras that experiments with the art of collage, with a feeling of nostalgia through simple and naive compositions using mixed media.

Dec 9 – Jan 12, 2023

Sargent and Spain: A Webinar with Simon Edmondson and Eva Salmerón
  • 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

Winter soiree: a celebration of Spanish arts
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Winter soiree: a celebration of Spanish arts

After last year’s winter party, this year’s event at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain will focus on the the new hall intervention and the launch of the photography project “DC.es.”

Dec 1, 2022

DC.es: Florida Ave by Juan Baraja
  • 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

Eva Armisén at Art Miami 2022
  • Visual arts
  • Miami

Eva Armisén at Art Miami 2022

Spanish painter Eva Armisén presents a selection of her works at the 31st edition of Art Miami, the top ranked international art fair for attendance in the U.S. and second most attended globally.

Nov 29 – Dec 4, 2022

Sargent and Spain: A review by Lola Jiménez Blanco
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Sargent and Spain: A review by Lola Jiménez Blanco

Spanish art historian Lola Jiménez-Blanco will go over Sargent’s fascination with Spain, placing him in the so called “Spanish crazed” in the U.S. in the late 1800.

Nov 2, 2022

American Democracy
  • 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 – Mar 22, 2023

Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
  • 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

Sargent’s El Jaleo: What’s Goya got to do with it?
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

Sargent’s El Jaleo: What’s Goya got to do with it?

Janis Tomlinson shares her expertise about Spanish painter Goya and his relationship to the Spain lover and American painter Sargent.

Oct 18, 2022

Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue
  • 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

Photography and Travel in Sargent’s Spain
  • 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

Spanish Artists-in-Residence: Luis NCT at MICA
  • Visual arts
  • Baltimore

Spanish Artists-in-Residence: Luis NCT at MICA

Spanish illustrator Luis NCT participates at the Spanish Residency program thanks to the collaboration of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Oct 3 – Oct 31, 2022

Sargent and Spain
  • 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

In & Out | Fall Open Doors
  • Visual arts
  • Washington, D.C.

In & Out | Fall Open Doors

The Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain in Washington, D.C. opens its doors to share the exhibitions on show at the Beaux-Arts mansion, including limited guided tours of the garden installation “Around Pollinators.”

Sep 23 – Sep 25, 2022

Murillo: From Heaven to Earth
  • 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