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Review: Alfonso Sánchez Pérez
Dozens of planes cutting across a sky as black as evil, flying over a restless city plastered with thundering messages: “No fucking sense”. The senselessness of war is what drives No Sense…
The romantic landscape painting of Jenaro Pérez VillaAmil
Romanticism and landscape, two closely linked terms. On one hand, Romantic painting found in landscape a perfect genre for dreaming up other worlds, for fleeing a reality that offered little…
'Invitadas', the exhibition of the year at the Prado Museum
Rethinking history is dangerous, but exciting and, sometimes, essential. Because history is always written by the winners and so we will always be missing the stories of the…
Tamara de Lempicka, pleasures and days
What can you expect from someone who lies about where and when they were born? At the very least it raises suspicion, but also intrigue. Such was the life and the artistic career of Tamara de…
The fascination with ruins in the history of art
Nostalgia, horror, memory, fantasy, mystery... Ruins still hold the art world's interest because of their many sides, because they offer the artist a one of a kind inspiration. Because walking…
Henry Moore, the totem of British sculpture
A key figure in 20th-century British art, Henry Moore was one of the great names of European sculpture. His career began hesitantly, misunderstood by his…
Surviving the virus: the challenges facing museums in the age of COVID-19
“More than one tenth of the world's museums will have to close permanently.” A survey by ICOM (the International Council of Museums) and UNESCO came to conclusions of this magnitude in…
We visit the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
Art lovers have one unmissable stop in Milan: the Pinacoteca di Brera. It's the city's most important art collection, a museum with any number of masterpieces, among them…