Organized by PHotoEspaña, the Festival off includes 37 galleries, most of which will celebrate the opening of their exhibitions on the same day: 5 June. The venues, distributed in different districts of Madrid, take to the streets of the city a festive atmosphere where photography and art are the absolute stars. Madrid’s art galleries have teamed up with PHotoEspaña to promote the development of the photography market.
Every year since 1977 International Museum Day is organised worldwide around May 18. The theme of this edition is Museums in a Changing World. New challenges, New inspirations, which invites museums and their visitors to wonder about the role of museums in our society, in an era of numerous changes: IMD2012 is as much about museums growing and shaping their future, as it is about displaying and interpreting new issues like climate change, new media or social responsability.
Spaniards visit an average of three exhibitions per year, buy gifts in the museum shops and acquire realistic paintings, landscapes and abstract Art below 1,500 euros. Those are the main findings of the survey on consumption of Art carried out by Artelista during the first semester of 2011.
Espacio Fundación Telefónica has been created to accommodate the new culture of the 21st century in the heart of Madrid, with the aim of becoming a place for debate, reflection and communication, a meeting point in a unique and emblematic location, which provides continuity to the encounter between historical vanguards and the current knowledge revolution.
Crafts were prominent among the first works of art to enter the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (U.S.) when it was founded in 1876, and the Museum has continued to collect and exhibit crafts.
