https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A painting by Italian master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and almost auctioned off, will be unveiled Monday at the Prado museum in the Spanish capital. https://www.thelocal.es/20240527/spains-prado-museum-to-unveil-newly-verified-caravaggio Mon, 27 May 2024 11:06:14 +0200 spains-prado-museum-to-unveil-newly-verified-caravaggio Madrid's Prado museum said Monday it will display a 17th-century oil painting by Italian master Caravaggio that has reportedly been sold to a UK national who is a resident in Spain for €36 million. https://www.thelocal.es/20240507/lost-caravaggio-to-go-on-display-in-spain-after-briton-buys-it-for-e36m Tue, 07 May 2024 11:34:47 +0200 lost-caravaggio-to-go-on-display-in-spain-after-briton-buys-it-for-e36m An exhibition of sculptures by Picasso, who is better known for his Cubist and surrealist paintings, opens on Tuesday in the legendary Spanish artist's hometown of Málaga. https://www.thelocal.es/20230509/picasso-sculptor-exhibition-opens-in-spains-malaga Tue, 09 May 2023 10:56:01 +0200 picasso-sculptor-exhibition-opens-in-spains-malaga Paintings by masters including El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo and Goya from New York's Frick Collection have returned to Spain for the first time in more than a century for a temporary exhibition. https://www.thelocal.es/20230307/spanish-masterpieces-return-to-madrid-after-more-than-a-century Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:35:42 +0100 spanish-masterpieces-return-to-madrid-after-more-than-a-century With massive screens and virtual reality, a new immersive exhibition opens in Madrid on Friday in honour of celebrated Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla, renowned for his ability to capture the blazing sunlight of the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.es/20230216/madrid-palace-to-host-virtual-reality-exhibition-on-spanish-artist-sorolla Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:51:48 +0100 madrid-palace-to-host-virtual-reality-exhibition-on-spanish-artist-sorolla Dozens of modern artworks removed from Kyiv to protect them from Russian strikes that have already done huge damage to Ukraine's cultural heritage will go on display at a Madrid 's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20221129/more-to-offer-than-war-ukrainian-art-on-display-at-museum-in-spain Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:14:22 +0100 more-to-offer-than-war-ukrainian-art-on-display-at-museum-in-spain Fifty years on from Pablo Picasso's death - and five years after the #MeToo movement started highlighting celebrities' abuse of women -- a new exhibition in Paris focuses on one of the early partners of the controversial artist. https://www.thelocal.es/20221013/new-exhibition-exposes-picassos-complex-relationship-with-first-partner Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:09:44 +0200 new-exhibition-exposes-picassos-complex-relationship-with-first-partner Spanish customs agents seized a Picasso sketch worth over €450,000 from a passenger who arrived at Ibiza airport without declaring the artwork, Spain's customs office said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20220718/spanish-customs-seize-e450k-picasso-sketch-at-ibiza-airport Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:28:07 +0200 spanish-customs-seize-e450k-picasso-sketch-at-ibiza-airport The Prado is home to one of Europe’s finest collections of European art, including the work of Goya, Velázquez, El Greco, Rubens, Titan and Bosch. As Madrid's iconic museum is so vast, here are the must-see paintings you can't miss. https://www.thelocal.es/20200117/fifteen-must-see-painting-at-museo-del-prado Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:14:43 +0100 fifteen-must-see-painting-at-museo-del-prado Fifty years after the Spanish artist's death, the debate around Pablo Picasso's ill treatment of women is heating up. Could he posthumously suffer the consequences of modern-day cancel culture? https://www.thelocal.es/20220407/focus-is-picasso-being-cancelled Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:04:35 +0200 focus-is-picasso-being-cancelled Queen Letizia of Spain teamed up with Britain's Prince Charles on Tuesday to inaugurate the first UK museum dedicated exclusively to Spanish art, which is part of an ambitious town regeneration effort. https://www.thelocal.es/20220406/queen-letizia-and-prince-charles-inaugurate-first-uk-museum-of-spanish-art Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:18:20 +0200 queen-letizia-and-prince-charles-inaugurate-first-uk-museum-of-spanish-art One of French painter Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings, "Mata Mua", will return to a Madrid museum on Monday following an agreement between the Spanish government and its owner, who took it out of the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20220207/paul-gauguins-mata-mua-returns-to-spain-after-e100m-deal Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:55:04 +0100 paul-gauguins-mata-mua-returns-to-spain-after-e100m-deal Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is one of the most interesting characters in Spanish history, as brilliant as he was bizarre. Here are seven things you probably didn’t know about him. https://www.thelocal.es/20170720/six-surreal-facts-about-salvador-dali Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:33:35 +0200 six-surreal-facts-about-salvador-dali The Spanish government on Thursday blocked the auction of a 17th-century oil painting in Madrid on suspicion that it may actually be a lost masterpiece by the Renaissance artist Caravaggio. https://www.thelocal.es/20210408/spain-blocks-auction-of-possible-caravaggio-painting-with-opening-price-of-e1500 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:19:38 +0200 spain-blocks-auction-of-possible-caravaggio-painting-with-opening-price-of-e1500 Oops. Spain did it again. https://www.thelocal.es/20201110/a-grotesque-cartoon-spain-laughs-and-groans-at-yet-another-botched-art-restoration Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:16:43 +0100 a-grotesque-cartoon-spain-laughs-and-groans-at-yet-another-botched-art-restoration Slave, witch, prostitute or mother: a new exhibit at Spain's Prado explores how misogyny influenced the way women were portrayed in art, and the role that the museum itself played. https://www.thelocal.es/20201027/misogyny-in-art-spains-prado-pleads-guilty Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:37:45 +0100 misogyny-in-art-spains-prado-pleads-guilty For many people 2020 is most definitely a year to forget. But for Tomás Baleztena it is arguably his best year yet. https://www.thelocal.es/20201019/toms-baleztena-meet-the-madrid-artist-behind-the-powerfully-dark-lockdown-series Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:25:39 +0200 toms-baleztena-meet-the-madrid-artist-behind-the-powerfully-dark-lockdown-series The sleepy village of Romangordo in Extremadura has been transformed thanks to a team of artists and now visitors find that nothing is quite as it seems. https://www.thelocal.es/20200930/in-pics-the-sleepy-spanish-town-where-nothing-is-quite-as-it-seems Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:02:01 +0200 in-pics-the-sleepy-spanish-town-where-nothing-is-quite-as-it-seems A Spanish court on Tuesday doubled the jail term handed to a former top banker for smuggling a 26-million-euro Picasso painting out of the country onboard a yacht. https://www.thelocal.es/20200205/spanish-billionaire-banking-boss-sees-jail-term-doubled-over-smuggled-picasso Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:56:13 +0100 spanish-billionaire-banking-boss-sees-jail-term-doubled-over-smuggled-picasso A Spanish court has sentenced a former top banker to 18 months in jail for trying to smuggle a Picasso painting deemed a national treasure out of the country on a sailing yacht. https://www.thelocal.es/20200116/spanish-banker-gets-jail-term-for-trying-to-smuggle-out-picasso-masterpiece Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:21:09 +0100 spanish-banker-gets-jail-term-for-trying-to-smuggle-out-picasso-masterpiece