The Sacred Made Real

Erin Rowe alerted me to another exhibition of Spanish art – The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700. It is currently showing at the National Gallery in London, until January 24, 2010. From February 28 to May 31, 2010, it will show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

In November, Yale University Press will release the catalogue: The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700, ed. Xavier Bray, Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour, and Judy Ozone

Meléndez Exhibition, Catalogue, & Review

This review, by Sanford Schwartz, in the Nov 5, 2009 New York Review of Books alerted me to a few things I’ve missed. Apparently there’s been a traveling exhibition, first at the National Gallery of Art this summer, currently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until January 3, and then at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts: Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life.

Yale UP has produced the catalogue, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, ed. Gretchen A. Hirschauer, Catherine A. Metzger, Peter Cherry, and Natacha Seseña.

And I was in DC this summer and didn’t know about it! Maybe I’ll get to the Boston exhibit; I wonder how long a 5-year-old and 2-year-old will let me look at bodegones?

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La Vida Es Sueño in NYC

Today’s New York Times has a review of Calderón’s play, staged by the Repertorio Español, in Spanish. “La Vida Es Sueño” will run through May 5 at the Gramercy Arts Theater.

Spanish Music at Lincoln Center

The New Yorker reports that there will be a concert of “Cervantes-era” music on Oct 20 at Lincoln Center: Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI play villancicos, Sephardic ballads, and folk music, interspersed with readings from Don Quixote.