Festivals and Films
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El Trazo Oculto - The Hidden Outline.
21 July-5 Nov 2006. Using an infra-red technique originally developed by the University of Milan, this unique exhibition reveals the drawings and sketches that lie beneath the painted surface of some...
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7 July-8 Oct 2006. The heady years of the socio-cultural movement known as La Movida which followed the death of fascist dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975 are the subject of this exhibition at...
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Summer nights at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
1 Jul-2 Sept 2006. Two major exhibitions at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum are being opened to the public until 23.00 over summer. From Cranach to Monet. Masterpieces from the Prez Simn Collection is a...
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Picasso. Tradition and avant-garde.
6 June-3 Sept 2006. An exhibition of over 100 masterpieces by the most important Spanish artist of the 20th century are on show at the Museo del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa....
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22 March-11 June 2006. Over 140 etchings by the 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt Van Rijn are currently on display at Spains national library. The exhibition, entitled Rembrandt: The Light of Shado...
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30 March-11 June 2006. La Casa Encendida hosts an exhibition entitled De Ida y Vuelta. Africa showing painting, film, video, sculpture and photography by 20 African artists spanning five generations,...
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21 Dec 2005-14 May 2006. The wonders of ancient Egypt are on show at the Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal in a two-part exhibition including 120 pieces on loan from the Cairo Museum. The first sectio...
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2 Feb-21 May 2006. Over 90 black-and-white photographs by Chema Madoz, winner of the Spanish National Photography prize in 2000, are on show in this exhibition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Cul...
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14 Feb-14 May 2006. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum hosts this extensive exhibition of avant-garde art from the turbulent early decades of 20th century Russia. Divided into five sections the exhibition...
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9-13 Feb 2006.
This is the 25th edition of Madrids annual contemporary art event, which attracts art professionals and visitors from all over the world. 250 galleries of avant-garde, modern, contempo...
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19th Century Spanish Art at the Prado.
13 Dec 2005-12 March 2006. To celebrate the centenary of a bequest made to the Prado in 1904 by Ramn de Errazu, a wealthy art collector based in Paris, the museum is holding an exhibition of the 25 wo...
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Don Quixote and Contemporary Spanish Art.
9 Nov 2005-13 Feb 2006. Twenty of Spains most outstanding contemporary artists have been invited to give their personal interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes seminal work Don Quixote de la Mancha in t...
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Raphael Portrait of a Young Man, 1518-19
18 Oct 2005-15 Jan 2006. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museums 17th Contexts exhibition from the permanent collection is dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio, one of the most important artists of the Italian Renais...
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Until 29 Oct 2005.
The Galera Helga de Alvear presents an exhibition by artists Slater Bradley, Fernando Bryce, Marcel Dzama, Mark Lombardi, Francesc Ruiz and Johanes Wohnseifer. In Tres o Cuatro His...
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Until 20 Nov 2005. The Casa de Amrica presents an exhibition of 52 photographs by Frida Kahlo, one of the most important painters in Latin American history. A model from an early age, she learned to p...
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Until 27 Oct 2005. Galera Oliva Arauna presents the latest work from artist Alicia Martn, who focuses on how objects belong in everyday places. Ever since her work involving a cascade of books falling...
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Until 21 August 2005. Kids can discover the magical world of animation at this very special exhibition. Coinciding with the premiere of the film El Sueno de una noche de San Juan, the Casa de Vacas de...
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Until 12 September 2005. The Palacio de Velzquez hosts an exhibition by Siquier, one of the most pioneering Argentine artists of the 1980s. His work is among the most original and complex of his gener...
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Until 18 September 2005. The Crculo de Bellas Artes presents the 'Universo Mestizo' exhibition, in which seven artists photograph the world without even leaving Madrid. Back in the 1980s, John Berger...
