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The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa offers an exhibition of Chuck Close’s paintings until the seventh of May. This is an exhibition for those interested in the late modernist abstraction created in the sixties and seventies. Chuck Close has engaged these stratagems not in the pursuit of flat, geometry-dependent abstraction but in a [...]
It is carnival time in Spain. From now until Ash Wednesday (February 21st this year) — and in some places a little longer — it is a wild, weird and wacky season of masks, parades and parties. That is probably what gave the celebration its name: carne vale, Latin, meaning “meat, farewell.†Apokreo, its Greek [...]
For anybody interested in Tintoretto, who dominated Venetian painting in the second half of the XVI century through the power of his imagination, the virtuosity of his brush, the force of his personality and the sheer quantity of his production. The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid is offering a rigorous and comprehensive survey of [...]
Travelling with children in Madrid? No problem. Here are some tips for a fun trip!  Start with nature and science at the Zoo-Aquarium located at Casa de Campo, and continue with ‘bio-fun’ at the Faunia Theme Park , a biodiversity theme park made up of 8 of the worlds eco-systems and 3,500 animals. Keep [...]
If you are in Madrid around this time of the year and want to escape from the noise of Christmas shopping you can find a warm and nice refuge in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. The museum has an exhibition that offers a parallel presentation of the respective careers of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and JoaquÃn Sorolla [...]
We are now officially in Christmas season. If you visit Spain at this time of the year you will see lights, lots of people carrying shopping bags, and countless Santa Claus welcoming people to the nearest El Corte Inglés (Spanish version of Marks and Spencer or Macy’s). Pretty normal, isn’t it? Sooo, if it’s not [...]
  Brits will be pleased to learn that the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid is hosting an exhibition of artwork by Howard Hodgkin until mid-January. It is the first retrospective exhibition on Hodgkin in Spain, and is being organised in collaboration with the Tate Britain and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. It [...]
Art lovers going to Madrid will be glad to hear that a fantastic exhibition showing works by Pablo Picasso at Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum is being extended owing to huge demand. The “Picasso, tradition and avant-garde” shows displaying some 100 pieces by the artist will remain open until September 25. The exhibition, which opened on [...]
The international fashion community converges on Madrid at the start of September for the Madrid Fasion Week in the Juan Carlos I Exhibition Centre. Spanish fashion is some of the highest quality and competitively priced in Europe and the event attracts ever increasing numbers each year. The event represents all areas of the fashion industry, [...]
Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is currently presenting the exhibition “Tintoretto – Paradise” as part of its Contexts of the Permanent Collection season. The context of the exhibition is the end of the 16th century, when the Republic of Venice convened two contests for paintings to decorate the Great Council Hall of the Ducal Palace. Pieces were [...]
