NewsCovid-19
Coronavirus in Spain: Madrid museums including Prado shut but Guggenheim Bilbao remains open
There are currently more than 2,770 coronavirus cases reported in Spain with 64 deaths
PreviewExhibitions
Prado show lifts the lid on the cases built to protect a French prince's treasures
The Madrid exhibition will feature 101 cases made from materials such as carved wood and velvet
NewsMadrid
Collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza invests in Madrid after leaving Vienna
Austrian patron donates work to Reina Sofia and commissions new piece by Ragnar Kjartansson to be shown at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
NewsCollectors
Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo drops plans for new Madrid space in former slaughterhouse
Italian patron is looking for an alternative site in the Spanish capital after encountering "structural problems" with Matadero's Nave 9 building
PreviewArt fairs
Arco Madrid reforms selection process following criticism of lack of transparency
The 39th edition, opening tomorrow, has exhibitors from across Latin America, including Peru, Cuba, Chile and Colombia
ReviewExhibitions
Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana show at the Prado is as much about biography as it is about the art
The Madrid exhibition compares the two artists who were successful in their time but whose reputations later waned
NewsMuseums
Meadows Museum in Dallas teams up with local and Madrid opera companies
Opera sets will evoke the museum’s collection, and soloists will perform at the museum
NewsSpanish politics
Spain begins exhumation of General Franco's remains from civil war memorial
Country's ruling Socialist party has argued that far-right supporters attracted by the former dictator's tomb distract from the monument's real purpose
PreviewExhibitions
Pioneering Renaissance artists Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana are united for Prado show
Exhibition in Madrid will include more than 60 works by the two painters and will “break the idea of small works being clichés of female artists”
BlogIn the frame
Tomorrow’s world: Young Collector Award at JustMad fair encourages budding buyers
ReviewExhibitions
Madrid's small but perfectly formed Bartolomé Bermejo show is 'art history at its best'
Museo del Prado’s show on the 15th-century Spanish painter is elegant, intellectually incisive and rich in both news and rarely seen art
InterviewMuseo del Prado
Prado at 200: director Miguel Falomir on the museum's reinvention and the death of the blockbuster
Released from the shackles of state control in 2003, the Madrid institution has reason to celebrate its bicentenary
PreviewExhibitions
Surrealist Dorothea Tanning finally gets long-merited major survey
Show of artist whose work “undermines old idea of Surrealism being about the objectification of women” opens in Madrid before travelling to London
NewsConservation & Preservation
Death triumphs: Museo del Prado completes challenging two-year-long Bruegel restoration
Newly conserved danse macabre work travels to Vienna for major exhibition marking 450 years since the artist's death
News
Miami collection of Ella Fontanals-Cisneros bound for Madrid
The Wynwood space will close this year, with some works donated to the Spanish government
ArchiveExhibitions
Prodigious, prolific, phenomenal: Raphael’s last 17 years in Rome on show at the Louvre
The Prado and the Louvre collaborate for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Earliest copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
Experts say the painting was completed at the same time as Leonardo’s original
ArchiveRubell Collection
Rubells loan works to Fundación Banco Santander
"American Exuberance" is on view in Madrid 9 February to 27 May
ArchiveMadrid
In Madrid,“Goya: images of women” shows current academic preoccupations while in Washington it will be more conventional
Double duty Goya: the travelling show adapts to its contexts
ArchiveArt fairs
Private collectors active at Arco but museums too quiet
We look at the talking points and early sales
ArchiveNew galleries
Lady Foster opens gallery and bookshop in Madrid
A former garage becomes an art space, as the Ivory Press publisher inaugurates building designed by her husband
ArchiveHerzog
First Tate Modern, now Herzog & de Meuron convert power station in Madrid
Spain's La Caixa follows in Tate's footsteps
ArchiveArco
ARCO, Madrid: Big crowds, but few buyers
A Frida Kahlo—not for sale—pulled in 180,000 viewers
ArchiveMuseums
Official recognition for Prado director sacked for signing petition against 1991 war in Iraq
"I served with all my might", said Alfonso Perez Sanchez
ArchiveArt market
Doubts cast on authorship of Goya’s “Black paintings”
University of Madrid discovery
ArchiveExhibitions
Warhol-Basquiat-Clemente collaborations come to Madrid
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía plays host to three big names on one canvas
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA teams up with Reina Sofia for research and conservation
The two institutions already have a strong bond due to many shared exhibitions, and this partnership is set to expand
ArchiveArt fairs
Optimism at ARCO as huge turnout is matched by satisfying sales
However, there is still a marked lack of Spanish collectors
ArchiveMuseo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Madrid's Thyssen Bornemisza Museum appeals to the ladies, visitor figures find
Dutch Landscape exhibition proves popular
ArchiveArt fairs
A whiff of optimism for Madrid's ARCO with international outlook built on homegrown foundations
Twelve American dealers and seventeen private collectors invited
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
Final decision on carve up of Dalí estate in Spain
Attempts to control spread of fakes with thousands seized in New York
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Museum boom planned for Spanish capital
Vast collections emerge: archaeology, ethnographic and waxworks.
ArchiveExhibitions
Daimler-Benz sponsors Warhol car crashes in Madrid
The series known as “Cars” opens the season at the Juan March Foundation
Commentcoronavirus
Letter from Spain: Arco exhibition centre is now a coronavirus hospital
The 'panorama is desolate' for the country's culture sector, says Manuel Fernández-Braso, president of the association of Madrid art galleries
Manuel Fernández-Braso