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 UPDATED: Italian police are trying to establish the true owner of a Picasso painting worth €15 million after confiscating it from a pensioner who says he was given it for free. https://www.thelocal.es/20150327/italian-police-seize-15m-picasso-painting Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:29:00 +0100 italian-police-seize-15m-picasso-painting A new exhibition at Madrid's world-famous Prado museum allows blind visitors to explore copies of half a dozen masterpieces with their hands. https://www.thelocal.es/20150120/do-touch-madrids-prado-opens-expo-for-blind Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:58:12 +0100 do-touch-madrids-prado-opens-expo-for-blind Police in Zaragoza and Tarragona have taken down a network of art fraudsters who tried to sell nine forged copies of works by Miró, Picasso and Matisse for hundreds of thousands of euros. https://www.thelocal.es/20150115/cops-bust-forgers-who-copied-mir-and-picasso Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:39:00 +0100 cops-bust-forgers-who-copied-mir-and-picasso A Barcelona gallery on Tuesday inaugurated a retrospective of works from the past three decades of dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, who has been banned from leaving China since 2011. https://www.thelocal.es/20141104/spanish-gallery-showcases-chinese-dissident-ai-wei-weis-works-china Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:40:00 +0100 spanish-gallery-showcases-chinese-dissident-ai-wei-weis-works-china The Spanish government is refusing to discuss the possible handover of an extremely valuable painting by the impressionist Camille Pissarro which the Nazis took from a wealthy German family in 1939, a lawyer for the family says. https://www.thelocal.es/20140925/spanish-museum-thyssen-refuses-to-give-back-nazi-stolen-art-pisarro Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:15:00 +0200 spanish-museum-thyssen-refuses-to-give-back-nazi-stolen-art-pisarro This well-known artist has been causing plenty of controversy with a work of art featuring a photo of former Spanish king Juan Carlos lying in a rubbish container. Meet The Local's Spanish Face of the Week, Cristóbal Toral. https://www.thelocal.es/20140904/artist-cause-stir-with-king-juan-carlos-in-trash-piece Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:49:00 +0200 artist-cause-stir-with-king-juan-carlos-in-trash-piece Madrid's top art museum the Prado has unveiled a major exhibition about the master painter El Greco, exploring his influence on modern greats such as Picasso, Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock. https://www.thelocal.es/20140627/major-madrid-expo-highlights-el-greco-heritage Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:20:00 +0200 major-madrid-expo-highlights-el-greco-heritage Gold icons and expressionist paintings from one of Russia's top art museums will go on permanent show in an old tobacco factory in the Spanish city of Malaga, officials said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140528/malaga-musuem-to-house-russian-masterworks Wed, 28 May 2014 15:55:00 +0200 malaga-musuem-to-house-russian-masterworks An oil painting sold at a Spanish antique shop over two decades ago for around €150 ($200) has been certified as Salvador Dali's first Surrealist work which he painted as a teenager, art experts said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140523/oil-painting-certified-as-early-work-by-dali Fri, 23 May 2014 11:26:00 +0200 oil-painting-certified-as-early-work-by-dali Two oil paintings including one owned by Yale University in the United States have been certified as being the work of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, officials said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140514/two-new-dali-painting-turn-up-in-us Wed, 14 May 2014 11:07:00 +0200 two-new-dali-painting-turn-up-in-us A valuable painting believed to be by the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh may have been discovered by tax inspectors in Spain 40 years after it was reported missing, the country's tax office said on Saturday. But experts in Austria have cast doubt on the find. https://www.thelocal.es/20140512/spain-vangogh-painting-taxoffice-art-culture Mon, 12 May 2014 12:30:00 +0200 spain-vangogh-painting-taxoffice-art-culture The renowned Picasso museum in Paris has become embroiled in more controversy this week when local residents expressed their anger over the building of a new covered walkway, that they describe as "hideous". It comes after the museum's long-awaited reopening was delayed until September. https://www.thelocal.es/20140507/paris-picasso-museum-mired-in-new-controversy Wed, 07 May 2014 16:26:00 +0200 paris-picasso-museum-mired-in-new-controversy The son of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso said he was "scandalized" after France's culture minister put back the opening of the Picasso museum in Paris until September, accusing the French government of not caring. https://www.thelocal.es/20140505/picasso-museum-becoming-a-fiasco-artists-son Mon, 05 May 2014 15:18:00 +0200 picasso-museum-becoming-a-fiasco-artists-son A Spaniard suspected of perpetrating one of the world's biggest art frauds has been freed ahead of a legal fight over his extradition to the United States. https://www.thelocal.es/20140422/art-swindler Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:04:00 +0200 art-swindler A Spanish art dealer who made world headlines through earning millions of dollars by allegedly producing and selling fake artworks by major artists has been arrested during Easter celebrations in southern Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20140421/art-fbi-spain-jacksonpollock-bergantinos Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:38:00 +0200 art-fbi-spain-jacksonpollock-bergantinos The Spanish city of Toledo on Friday welcomed back the master painter El Greco, whose vivid works have returned from around the world to adorn his adoptive city 400 years after his death. https://www.thelocal.es/20140314/el-greco-expo Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:44:00 +0100 el-greco-expo The priest of the small Spanish village home to an infamous 'restored' fresco of Jesus Christ was on Thursday remanded in custody on sex and fraud charges. https://www.thelocal.es/20131205/monkey-jesus-priest-remanded-in-custody Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:00:00 +0100 monkey-jesus-priest-remanded-in-custody A man in Spain has been fined €90 ($122) for looking at a painting that had been left on the street. https://www.thelocal.es/20131204/man-fined-90-for-looking-at-painting Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:12:00 +0100 man-fined-90-for-looking-at-painting The priest of a small Spanish village which rose to international fame after a local woman in 2012 'restored' a fresco of Jesus Christ has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse and the embezzlement of €210,000 ($285,000). https://www.thelocal.es/20131202/monkey-jesus-priest Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:44:00 +0100 monkey-jesus-priest In the basement of Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, a giant robot known as 'Pablito' is slowly snapping hundreds of microscopic shots of a painting by Catalan surrealist artist Joan Miro to determine the condition of the work. https://www.thelocal.es/20130724/spanish-robot-brings-artworks-back-to-life Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:38:55 +0200 spanish-robot-brings-artworks-back-to-life