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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

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

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

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

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

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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Move Over, Pollock: Research Confirms Neanderthals Made Splatter Paintings

by Valentina Di Liscia August 5, 2021August 6, 2021

Pigment found on rocks in a Spanish cave was applied by humans 60,000 years ago using splattering and blowing techniques.

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Paying Homage to the Ancient Vessels That Transported Water

by Lauren Moya Ford July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

Asunción Molinos Gordo creates pitchers, jugs, and basins in centuries-old designs typical of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

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The Story of La Veneno, Spain’s Badass Trans Superstar

by Juan Barquin July 12, 2021July 13, 2021

The HBO Max series Veneno embraces all of the media personality’s colorful life, including the messier parts.

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For Just $1, You Can Live in a Gaudí Masterpiece for a Night

by Hakim Bishara June 22, 2021June 24, 2021

Casa Vicens was Gaudí’s first-ever commission in Barcelona and one of the first buildings of the Art Nouveau movement.

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Barcelona City Council Steps in to Preserve a Little-known Keith Haring Mural

by Valentina Di Liscia June 15, 2021June 16, 2021

The mural is tucked behind the DJ booth at a former nightclub, which is slated to become a home for seniors.

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