Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
Whitney’s paintings at this point seem to embody the transitory.
Art
As the polarization over Catalan independence deepens in Spain, two recent exhibitions at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation underscore how art and soft power are more relevant than ever before.
Art
Baker's work utilizes food, families, and femininity to tell stories about women's imposed invisibility, and turns them into artwork.
News
The fair, which opened its 2019 edition today, defends its “impeccable” selection process.
Art
Kader Attia's new solo exhibition in Barcelona reminds us of the permanence of scars as well as our ability to heal.
In Brief
We have no record of what color the Virgin Mary's hair was when she gave birth to Jesus, but it probably wasn't turquoise.
News
The leftist government's decision to dig up the dictator's body from its resting place after four decades in the country's most important memorial site threatens to open old wounds.
In Brief
The Dalí Foundation has their sights on the Monterey museum devoted to the Spanish Surrealist and unlike the case in Spain, which the foundation lost, this may be different.
Art
As the rift between Madrid and Barcelona deepens, Catalonia's art institutions are caught between a rock and a hard place — and largely silent on political issues.
Books
In a 16th-century triptych of the crucifixion at the Musée National de la Renaissance, north of Paris, Christ has wings. In fact the whole piece is made of feathers.