While the architecture, cinema, or the graphic arts of the Russian avant-gardes have been studied in great detail, other disciplines such as interior design or furniture design are still largely unknown, as is the history of their evolution from the

Juan Bordes   The Juan Bordes Collection includes pieces that show the importance of 19th-century pedagogy in forming the visual culture of the avant-gardes.

The IVAM, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, presents ‘Fernand Léger and Modern Life,’ displaying more than forty paintings and drawings, aside from films, graphic designs, books, fabrics and a large-scale photomural he made together with Charlott

A total of 44 works selected from the collections of the Russian State Museum of St. Petersburg – 16 of them never shown before in Spain – have been included in the monographic exhibition on Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum of Málaga. The exhib

The Reina Sofía Museum offers a tour of the Russian avant-garde art produced during the heyday of Dada – between World War I and Lenin’s death –, exploring the features both movements share, such as the negation of classical art, the innovative fusio

Antonio Bonet Correa   Children’s toys have interested scholars of contemporary art for some time now. Curiosity about the theme is universal. As regards Spain, we remember the exhibitions curated by Carlos Pérez, ‘Infancia y arte moderno’ (Valencia, 1998) and ‘Los juguete

José Manuel García Roig   In 1914 war was considered by numerous German artists and intellectuals to be a kind of regenerative act of ‘hygiene’ or battle for culture.

Eduardo Prieto   There are hardly any ‘surrealist’ buildings, but oneiric architecture goes back a long way, and many currents critical of rationalist modernity have linked up with it.

Óscar Tusquets   On the occasion of the Reina Sofía Museum’s grand retrospective of Dalí, Oscar Tusquets tells of his relationship with the painter, zeroing in on his special passion for architecture.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The surreal dwells among us. Far from just being an artistic and literary movement of the past century, surrealism is a dark pulse that shakes the present. The extraordinary popular success of the Dalí exhibition at Paris’s Pompidou and Madrid’s Rein

Jean-Louis Cohen   Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Juan Antonio Cortés   Nuevos principios formales en el arte y la arquitectura del siglo XX, 1901-1931