Highlights /4 events you can't miss in the next 4 weeks
- Sketching the future
- Washington, D.C.
Fair Water: A Right of All
This new program is dedicated to the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, sustainability and diplomacy in the arts, and will include a series of events running from May to September.
May 16 – September 9, 2019
- Performing arts
- Washington, D.C.
European Theater Residency during CrossCurrents Festival: Meet & greet discussion
Spanish artistic director, playwright, teaching artist, and arts manager Lucía Miranda participates at this year’s CrossCurrents Festival, a citywide biennial festival that highlights innovative artists from around the world who are harnessing the power of performance to humanize global politics.
May 6, 2019
- Film
- Washington, D.C.
Spanish Cinema Now+
The first edition of Spanish Cinema Now+ includes four movies nominated for a Goya, the most important national annual film award, in the category of best new director, showing the new values of Spanish cinema.
February 28 – May 29, 2019
- Visual arts
- St. Petersburg
Magritte and Dalí
“Magritte & Dali” is a first-of-its-kind exhibition dedicated to the world’s two most celebrated surrealists, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
December 15 – May 19, 2019
All events / 33 current and upcoming events around the U.S. in the next 4 weeks
now- Visual arts
- Detroit
Blind House
“Blind House” is an incisive artwork by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin that brings into question our ideals of house and home, privacy, and safety.
Mar 14 – May 3, 2019
now- Visual arts
- Savannah, GA
Jaume Plensa: Talking Continents
Jaume Plensa presents large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature, and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity.
Mar 1 – Jun 9, 2019
now- Film
- Washington, D.C.
Spanish Cinema Now+
The first edition of Spanish Cinema Now+ includes four movies nominated for a Goya, the most important national annual film award, in the category of best new director, showing the new values of Spanish cinema.
Feb 28 – May 29, 2019
now- Visual arts
- Baltimore
Monsters & Myths. Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Nearly 90 Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and André Masson are presented through a timely lens –that of war, violence, and exile.
Feb 24 – May 26, 2019
now- Visual arts
- New York
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
This exhibition presents Miró’s signature painting “The Birth of the World” in relation to other major works by the artist, including 60 paintings, works on paper, prints, illustrated books, and objects.
Feb 24 – Jun 15, 2019
now- Visual arts
- Grand Rapids, MI
César Dezfuli at Or Does it Explode?
Several artists from Spain, France, and the U.S. present a multimedia group exhibition on the documentation of refugees and forced migration.
Feb 15 – Jun 16, 2019
now- Visual arts
- New York
The Farewells Photographs by Alberto Martí
Curated by José Caruncho, this exhibition presents a selection of 50 photographs by Alberto Martí on the Galician migrant exodus to the Americas between 1957 and 1963, taken at the Galician ports of A Coruña and Vigo in northwestern Spain.
Feb 9 – May 5, 2019
now- Visual arts
- Dallas
Fortuny: Friends and Followers
This new exhibition dedicated to Fortuny and his world explores the legacy of the popular Spanish painter’s work.
Feb 3 – Jun 2, 2019
now- Visual arts
- Boston
Air Sea Land by Okuda San Miguel
Boston Seaport welcomes seven monumental sculptures by Spanish contemporary artist Okuda San Miguel.
Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2019
now- Heritage
- New Orleans
CISLANDERUS
This exhibition focuses on the legacy of the descendants of Canary Islanders in Lousiana, a unique Spanish community in the United States.
Dec 20 – Jun 2, 2019
now- Visual arts
- St. Petersburg
Magritte and Dalí
“Magritte & Dali” is a first-of-its-kind exhibition dedicated to the world’s two most celebrated surrealists, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
Dec 15 – May 19, 2019
now- Visual arts
- New York
I don’t know why the caged bird sings… by José Carlos Casado
José Carlos Casado’s new public art interactive sculpture will be installed at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem for a year.
Oct 12 – Oct 12, 2019
now- Heritage
- San Antonio
Designing America: Spain's Imprint in the U.S.
“Designing America” presents the decisive contribution of Spain to the construction and planning of the territory, the landscape and the U.S. cities, from the first settlements until today.
Jun 18 – Jun 20, 2019