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The Endlessly Inventive Jörg Immendorff
Imagine Gustave Courbet’s materialism joined to Max Beckmann’s aggressive color, with a dash of Caspar David Friedrich’s visionary panoramas thrown in.
Madrid
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Tragic Recreations of Artistic Masterpieces, Considered Through the Lens of Climate Change
In a joint project, Museo del Prado and the World Wildlife Fund altered four masterpieces from the Prado’s collection to warn about the rising sea levels, the extinction of species, extreme droughts, and climate refugees.
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A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy
At a time when women were seen as incapable of serious creative or intellectual activity, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained international renown for their exceptional bodies of work.
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Glimpses of Civil War Scars in Spanish Photography
Frente a Frente at Madrid’s Museo Nacional de Antropología reveals the fundamental ways in which, eight decades on, Spain still has yet to reckon with the conflict that once tore it apart.
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Berenice Abbott's Optimistic Modernity
Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself.
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Illustrating Spain in Transition Through Underground Comix
Ceesepe's retrospective at La Casa Encendida explores how the artist’s underground comics offer an alternative view of Spanish life under and after the dictatorship led by Francisco Franco.
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The Influence of Painting on Balenciaga's Visual Universe
An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum demonstrates that though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco’s gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages to do just that.
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Using Humor, Food, and Femininity, Bobby Baker Creates an Art of Domesticity
Baker's work utilizes food, families, and femininity to tell stories about women's imposed invisibility, and turns them into artwork.
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Judge Orders ARCO Madrid to Make Exhibitor Selection Process More Transparent
The fair, which opened its 2019 edition today, defends its “impeccable” selection process.
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Spain's Leading Art Fair Removes Santiago Sierra Work Featuring "Political Prisoners" [UPDATED]
The work features 24 photo portraits of people who have recently been imprisoned in Spain.
Art
On the Hunt for Depictions of Queer Sexuality at the Prado
For the exhibition, The Other’s Gaze, the curators left the objects in their usual locations in order to illustrate the rich history of representing non-normative gender and sexuality already present within European painting and sculpture.
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An Early Installation Art Maverick Gets Her Due with a Madrid Retrospective
MADRID — The short but plentiful career of US installation artist Ree Morton, surveyed at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid in Ree Morton: Be a Place, Place an Image, Imagine a Poem, reminds us there are still many untold histories of 20th century women artists.