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World’s first museum of ‘forbidden’ art opens in Spain – and it’s not for the faint-hearted
A PAINTING of the Virgin Mary masturbating and a model of Spanish dictator General Franco in a fridge are just a couple of the...
More than 151,000 people flock to ‘Picasso as a Sculptor: Matter and Body’ exhibition in Malaga
PICASSO has triumphed once again in his home town, solidifying his enduring legacy as one of Malaga's most celebrated and influential figures.
'Picasso as a...
Exhibitions to celebrate Spain’s Picasso receive more than a million people in first half of the anniversary
THE Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, an initiative promoted by the governments of Spain and France that pays tribute to the artist on the 50th anniversary...
Summer workshops for children in Spain’s Picasso Museum
ART galore with creative workshops for children at the Picasso Museum in Malaga this summer.
The Museo Picasso Málaga (MPM) has opened the registration period...
Ploughs at the ready: Italian artist carves Picasso portrait in field to mark 50th Anniversary
IT'S 50 years since the death of one of Spain’s, and indeed one of the world’s, most venerated artists, Pablo Picasso.
In order to...
PICASSO QUIZ: HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ART a) Nothing, b) Lots
It’s Picasso Year, in case you hadn’t noticed. April 8, 2023 marks a significant anniversary of the death of the great Spanish modern artist,...
Museums and statue of Pablo Picasso lead tourist enquiries in Spain’s Malaga
IN 2022, the tourist offices in Malaga attended almost 700,000 visitors, whose queries were monopolised by the cultural and museum offer of the capital.
As...
Spain’s Antonio Banderas seeks to launch musical in English about Malaga-born artist Pablo Picasso
STAR of innumerable Hollywood movies, Antonio Banderas, has revealed that he is initiating negotiations with some Broadway companies about staging a musical in English...
The Picasso Museum in Spain’s Malaga closes 2022 with more than 640,000 visitors—close to record pre-pandemic numbers
THE Picasso Museum Málaga (MPM), the flagship of Malaga's cultural offering, has received a total of 641,216 visitors throughout 2022.
The figure is just shy...
Spain’s Picasso Museum to organise children’s workshop over Christmas
The Museo Picasso Malaga (MPM), following tradition, will organise its annual Christmas workshop for children.
This year, the workshop will have a focus on light...
Why photos of Malaga city in Spain are being displayed across London
Millions of tourists who ride London's popular visitor buses will get a little sneak peak of Malaga.
Images of Malaga will be on show...
FREE international seminar on Picasso to be held mid November in Spain’s Malaga
THE Picasso Museum Malaga together with the General Foundation of the University of Malaga (FGUMA) have come together to organise an international seminar on...
Fly art: Passenger caught smuggling original Picasso into Ibiza airport
SPANISH authorities have announced that they seized a stolen Picassso painting at Ibiza airport earlier this month.
Airport workers discovered a sketch attributed to the...
Russian Museum in Spain’s Malaga reopens its doors with 350 works by Picasso
THREE and a half weeks after its closure, Malaga’s Russian Museum has reopened its doors in the Tabacalera building.
The Tabacalera building, which also houses...
Warhol picture of Marilyn Monroe takes ‘most expensive’ title from Spain’s Pablo Picasso
PABLO Picasso has lost his place as creator of the 20th-century’s most expensive work of art.
Andy Warhol’s iconic picture of Marilyn Monroe has just...
Spain’s Malaga, Murcia and Cadiz all featured in Europe’s best free art gallery list
SPAIN is home to three of Europe's most highly rated free art galleries, a new survey has found.
The findings, published by Online learning centre...
Guernica: Spain’s government refuses to let Picasso’s Civil War masterpiece be displayed in the Basque Country’s Guggenheim Museum
A BID to put Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica on display in the Basque country has been rebuffed.
The picture, depicting the 1937 bombing of the Basque...
Stepping inside Picasso’s childhood home in Malaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol
THE OLD cliché is that people go to Malaga - only just to leave just as quickly as their plane lands.
But those in the...
Five of the most important contemporary Spanish artists
Everyone has heard of Picasso, Dali, Goya and Velazquez. Their paintings are among the most celebrated in the world of art, fetching millions at...
Billionaire who smuggled Picasso painting out of Spain avoids prison because of ‘serious incurable disease’
ONE of Spain's richest men will not go to prison for smuggling a Picasso painting out of the country because he's dying.
Ex-Santander Bank vice-president,...
Picasso branded ‘woman abuser’ in protest at Barcelona museum dedicated to Spain’s most famous artist
By Nickacia Forrester
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona was the scene of a protest when a group of art students took “silent action” to expose...
PICASSO: Spain’s most famous artist was a rogue when it came to love
As the Picasso Museum unveils a new photo exhibition into the life of the artist, Eloise Horsfield takes a look at the colourful man behind the masterpieces and the many tragic, unfortunate women in his life
A 1.2 million Picasso on sale at the first Mayoral gallery exhibition in Spain’s Madrid
THE first exposition from the Mayoral gallery in Madrid, ‘Zóbel and great postwar artists’, inaugurated this Thursday, March 11.
The display runs until March 21...
Self-proclaimed young anarchist from Spain’s Murcia region gets jailed for Picasso attack in London
A 20-YEAR-OLD student from the Murcia region was jailed for 18 months after he vandalised a Picasso painting at London's Tate Modern gallery.
San Javier-based...
Italian woman wins Picasso painting worth €1 million from €100 raffle ticket
AN Italian woman has won a Picasso painting that’s worth €1 million in a raffle.
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