Events taking place on December 8, 2022

Events 1–16 of 23

Spain’s 1939 Exiles in the Americas and Maryland
  • 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

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

2022 AFI European Union Film Showcase
  • 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

Not Your Regular Wall: Ode to Dune Plants by Lula Goce
  • 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

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

Building Ecologies: Collective Urban Infrastructures in Houston
  • 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

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 – Apr 14, 2023

Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean
  • 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

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

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

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

Not Only What, But Also How
  • 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

Illustrating Spain in the US: the exhibition in New York
  • 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

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

Picasso Drawings and Prints at The San Diego Museum of Art
  • 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