Around 1941, right in the middle of postwar Spain, a surrealist and absurd comedy publication appeared which had just as many fans as detractors. It was ‘La Codorniz’, ‘the most audacious magazine for the most intelligent reader’, as it defined itself. It had a long life, from 1941 until 1978, when, probably due to changes [...]

First it was Amman, then Beirut, and now it’s the turn of Madrid and Bordeaux, who in a parallel way present ‘GráfiKa’, an itinerant exhibition on urban art which will visit the centres that the Instituto Cervantes has spread all over the five continents. So, from the 7th of October until the 15th of January, [...]

Conceptual art is going through a serious crisis today. Nearly all the possible resources of representation, such as platforms, means or formats, have been depleted in an effort to bring contemporary art to a riskier level, to put it somehow. In such a way, there’s little left of what’s conventional in art, and they resort to [...]

Berthe Morisot was born in France in 1841 and died in 1895. She was one of the most important Impressionist painters, not only in France, but worldwide. The artist was born in Bourges in a very wealthy family, and was the precursor  of the art related to women during the late nineteenth century. While being [...]

Andreas Fogarasi us one of Austria’s most famous contemporary artists and, on this occasion, he arrives at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid to stage a presentation which will try and reflect on abstract art from the Cold War. The exhibition is called ‘The city of colour/Vasarely Go Home’, which can be visited until the [...]

Eugène Delacroix was born in France and was one of the most important French painters of the 19th century who, according to various historians, chose Dante to make various works of his. During the first third of the 19th century, a series of romantic artists who had great importance appeared. Delacroix was the best from this time. [...]

Until the 9th of January 2012, the National Museum Centre of Art Reina Sofía in Madrid exhibits the work of the Austrian artist Andreas Fogarasi, in the frame of their programme ‘Fisuras’. Fogarasi is one of the young Austrian prospects with the biggest projection, whose work is focused in the investigation of the entities which [...]

On until the 11th of September at the Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid is an exhibition of the three work of the three winners of this year’s edition of “Inéditos” – a competition which aims to give a voice to up and coming young creatives. Whilst this exhibition is reason enough to visit, [...]

Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the biggest, most important painters in the history of art, only painted four portraits of women. “Lady with an Ermine” is one of them, and also the only one to be held in Spain. On its journey into the country, the piece had to go through some very high security [...]

The Reina Sofia Museum which is one of the most important museums in Spain will for the first time ever present a big scale monographic exposition that is dedicated exclusively to Lygia Pape, an artists that was born 1927 in Nova Friburgo, Brasil and died 2004 in Rio de Janeiro. The objective of the exposition [...]