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16 Sept-18 Dec 2011.
The Museo Nacional del Prado displays a Pablo Picasso masterpiece: Acrobat on a Ball. Completed in 1905, the canvas is regarded as one of the greatest works from Picasso's ros...
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Matta: The Open Cube: New installation of the Permanent Collection
09 Sept-23 Oct. In honour of the centenary of the birth of Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911-2002) the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is displaying five large canvases from the artist's series L
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27 July-31 Oct. The Caixa Forum presents an exhibition of treasures from the pre-Columbian civilisation of Teotihuac
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Elena Asins: Fragments of Memory
15 June-12 Oct. According to the Reina Sofia Museum, currently hosting an exhibition of the work of Spanish artist Elena Asins (born in 1940), her work reflects "both the constructive tradition of the...
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6 May-12 September. Leon Golub (1922-2004) worked independently as an artist throughout his career, seemingly oblivious to the emerging art movements that surrounded him.
This retrospective compri...
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3 June-11 September. The Romanian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Artes del Ayuntamiento in Madrid and the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest, offers a glimpse of Bucharest...
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Not just Goya: Acquisitions for the Department of Prints and Drawings 1997-2010
5 May-31 July. The Prado Museum is currently displaying a wide selection of drawings, artists' notebooks and photographs which, due to their fragile nature, are normally stored in the department of Pr...
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8 March - 5 June. This exhibition counters the stereotypical view of women as depicted throughout the history of Western art: often appearing as seductive, indulgent and submissive, and featuring in a...
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16 May-30 August. In January 2010 Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, the epicentre of which was near the town of L
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11 May-12 September. The Reina Sofia presents an exhibition of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama whose artistic career spans almost six decades and incorporates movements such as feminism, minimali...
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A hard, merciless light: The Worker-Photography movement 1926-1939
6 April-22 August 2011. The Reina Sofia museum examines a photography movement from the first half of the 20th century when the medium was commandeered by various sectors in trade unionism, as well as...
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5 February - 3 May. Buenos Aires artist Roberto Jacoby, born in 1944, has become one of the most significant conceptual artists to emerge from Latin America in recent decades. Described as a multi-fac...
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Cold America: Geometrical Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973)
11 February - 15 May 2011. This exhibition charts the complex and disjointed history of the geometric abstraction art movement in Latin America, and its subsequent influence on European abstraction....
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12 January - 25 April 2011. Vienna artist Dorit Margreiter is concerned with modern architecture and for over a decade has been documenting visually the contrasting and interwoven relationships of the...
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'i am not a tourist' fair in Madrid
Join Expatica's annual lifestyle 'i am not a tourist' fair on 6 May. Registration is free:
http://www.iamnotatourist.es
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26 November - 25 April 2011. The exhibition "ctrl" at the Reina Sofia museum sees acclaimed Polish sculptor Miroslaw Balka examining symbols of power structures and ideologies.
Balka inverts and co...
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Atlas: How to carry the world on one’s back
26 November - 28 March 2011. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte presents an exhibition dedicated to the Greek mythological legend of Atlas, the titan who bore the weight of the world on his shoulders....
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Made in USA: American Art from the Phillips Collection
22 November - 16 January 2011. This selection of paintings from the Phillips Collection of Washington D.C. constitutes a comprehensive snapshot of the history of American art from the mid-19th to mid-...
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Jean-Luc Mylayne: Into the hands of time
18 November - 4 April 2011. For over 30 years French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne has been capturing large-scale colour images of birds.
Mylayne's work method involves the meticulous and time-con...
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16 November - 13 February 2011. Impressionist Gardens is a comprehensive exhibition of garden paintings from the mid-19th to the early 20th century and includes work by Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, K...
