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Cinthia Marcelle Celebrates Collaboration Through Chaos

Avatar photo by Emily Sun December 29, 2022January 3, 2023

Collaboration in Marcelle’s work pursues ambiguity and disorder in order to destabilize hierarchies of race and class.

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Prado Museum Investigates 25 Artworks Seized During Spanish Civil War

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

The investigation represents the first step of a process to return the works to families and descendants of those who originally owned them.

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Blind Spots Abound in Guggenheim Bilbao’s Car-Themed Exhibition

Avatar photo by Erica Eisen September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

Motion lionizes the personal automobile as an objet d’art of unparalleled cultural influence while minimizing its negative effects. Oh, and it’s sponsored by Volkswagen and Cadillac.

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“Unusually Large” Roman-Era Stone Phallus Impresses Archaeologists

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 4, 2022September 2, 2022

The discovery confirms that it’s not the length of the history that matters, so much as its breadth.

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Home Is a Mindset for a Nomadic Artist

Avatar photo by Sabrina Boutselis August 29, 2022August 29, 2022

Carlos Bunga’s architectural installation in the Reina Sofía’s Crystal Palace creates the facade of stability and strength yet is actually ephemeral and even fragile.

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Spanish Officials Seize Private Taxidermy Collection Worth $31M

by Hakim Bishara April 26, 2022April 26, 2022

Civil Guard agents raided a warehouse near Valencia that housed hundreds of specimens of endangered animals, including at least one extinct species.

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Exploring the Politics of Masks Beyond COVID

Avatar photo by Erica Eisen April 10, 2022April 8, 2022

Though masks are popularly conceived of as limiting expression, they allow their wearers to access a range of emotionality, of which the human face alone is incapable.

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At the Prado, Visitors Can Inhale the Smells of a Brueghel Painting

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

The Madrid museum collaborated with a fragrance company to create ten scents of items seen in the masterpiece “The Sense of Smell.”

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Pedro Almodóvar Presents a Beguiling Thriller About Motherhood

Avatar photo by Nadine Smith January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority.

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Guggenheim Bilbao’s Cleaning Staff Stages Protest-Performance Over Dismal Wages

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 13, 2021December 16, 2021

This weekend, artist Lorenzo Bussi collaborated with cleaning workers to protest poor working conditions and low pay at the glitzy contemporary art museum.

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Colonial Fault Lines Fracture the Madrid Art Landscape

Avatar photo by Emily Sun December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

A show at the Prado valorizes cross-cultural flows while muffling ruptures, and two contemporary art exhibitions critique Hispanic legacies to investigate how art history occludes power.

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Kidlat Tahimik’s Subversive Retelling of the Philippines’ Colonial History

Avatar photo by Sabrina Boutselis November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

To showcase this work exactly 500 years after Magellan’s conquest of the Philippines in a space that, 134 years ago, was a “human zoo” of Indigenous people from the Philippines, is certainly poignant.

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