Highlights
ExhibitionArt and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800
This exhibition at the Frist Art Museum features highlights from LACMA’s collection –including textiles, paintings and decorative arts– offering a lucid alternative to traditional interpretations of art from the so-called New World.
ExhibitionSpanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections
This exhibition brings together 27 rarely-seen paintings by Joaquín Sorolla from private collections in the United States, many of which will be displayed in a public museum for the first time.
SIGA briefs
Please save the date for SIGA’s Triennial Conference, SIGA/Seguir: Moving Forward in the Study of Iberian Global Art. The conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on September 27-28, 2024. A call for papers will be issued in spring 2024.
Olga Bush has published “The Textility of the Alhambra,” in Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing and Basile C. Baudez (eds.), Textile in Architecture. From the Middle Ages to Modernism (New York: Routledge, 2023), 138-155.
Jesús Escobar is the Center for Spain in America Fellow at The Clark Art Institute for Fall 2023. His research will be focused on “Architecture and Experience in the Seventeenth-Century World.”
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has published “A Copperplate of the Dominican Martyrs of Japan Reused by Murillo” in Print Quarterly, vol. XL, no. 3 (2023), 251-264, an article that places this little-known image as part of the global missionary aspirations of the Dominican order.
Anthony Meyer has been appointed a Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection for 2023-24.
Anthony Meyer has published the chapter “Stony Bundles and Precious Wrappings: The Making of Patio Crosses in Sixteenth-Century New Spain” as part of the edited volume Conversion Machines in Early Modern Europe: Apparatus, Artifice, Body (June 2023).
Latest events
Tiene viveza, ninguna prudencia: Queen Marie Louis d'Orléans Between Adaptation and Scandal
in 4 days
This virtual seminar given by Francisco José García Pérez (Universitat de les Illes Balears) is the second in AGENART’s new series on queenship, art, and material culture.
The Calé Romanies in Spain and Abroad: A History of Survival
today
In this in-person lecture at the Meadows Museum, Ian Hancock (University of Texas, Austin) will provide an overview of the history, language, and culture of the Romani people and their lives in Spain since their first arrival in the fifteenth century.
Picasso and the Spanish Classics
Now
This focused exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library explores Pablo Picasso’s interpretation of and response to Spanish literature.
Latest opportunities
Predoctoral Research Residencies at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities
55 days remaining
The Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” invites applications for Research Residencies for PhD students in the earlier stages of their dissertations.
Assistant or Associate Professor of Art History, 1400-1800 (Global)
32 days remaining
The Institute of Fine Arts of New York University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or recently tenured Associate Professor whose scholarship demonstrates a global perspective on the art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Fourth Durham–Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies
32 days remaining
This call for papers is for the fourth-annual colloquium on Hispanic studies and will take place in July at Hatfield College, Durham University (UK).
Dissertations
Juanita Solano Roa
Theater of the Self. Photography, Race, and Progress: Fotografia Rodriguez and Benjamin de la Calle, Medellin (Colombia), 1891-1938
Adviser: Edward SullivanFrancisco Chapparo
Victimhood in Goya. Rhetorics and Anti-Rhetorics on the Threshold of Photography
Advisers: Edward Sullivan and Jonathan BrownGwen Unger
Other Selves: Critical Self-Portraiture in Cuba during the ‘Special Period in time of Peace,’ 1989-1999
Advisers: Alexander AlberroWho we are
About SIGA
The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) was founded to promote the study of the arts, architecture, and visual cultures of the Iberian world (encompassing Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific) in the United States. The Society encourages and disseminates research in these fields as well as in the legacy of Hispanic and Portuguese studies in North America.
Awards
To fulfill the society’s mission to promote and disseminate scholarship on global Iberian art in the United States, SIGA offers three prizes that celebrate excellence in the field: The Eleanor Tufts Award, The Jonathan Brown Award and The Gridley McKim-Smith Award.
Projects
SIGA leads the Visual Arts issue in the Hispanic Research Journal and organizes a Triennial Conference and SIGA@CAA.