The rearrangement of the Reina Sofía Museum’s holdings has been a chance to bring alternative media, including architecture, into its exhibition discourse.
In its desire to document stories on the margins of official history, rescuing them from oblivion, the Reina Sofía Museum brings to light the biography of the psychiatrist from the Catalonian city of Reus, Francesc Tosquelles, one of the fathers of i
Sanmiguel Diest (Zaragoza, 1949) has for years combined his work as pattern maker in Aranda de Duero (Burgos) with artistic activity. His vast repertoire of drawings and paintings is guided by a systematic method that evidences the conflicts and visu
It was the destiny of a modest magazine published during the Great War in the neutral Netherlands to revolutionize the visual arts with its abstractions, straight lines, and primary colors. And although Piet Mondrian was one of the ideologists of the
José Val del Omar (b. 1904, Granada; d. 1982, Madrid) began composing Auto Sacramental Invisible (Invisible Auto Sacramental) in 1949. In the form of a sound installation, he conceived this device to dovetail with a crafted outline that carefully dis
These days conceptual art is an institutional and in general rigid art. But it must not be forgotten that back in the 1970s, especially in the Spain that was still steep in the process of shedding the shackles of decades of Francoism, it was pure tra
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
The work of the South African William Kentridge, born in Johanessburg in 1955 and winner of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, will be on view at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid through 19 March 2018, in an exhibition whose subtitl
The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid hosts a major exhibition on New Babylon, Constant’s utopia based on emancipation, technology, and play.
The Reina Sofía Museum hosts a major retrospective on Carl Andre, whose work suggests formal analogies with Mies van der Rohe’s.
The Reina Sofía devotes an exhibition to Mathias Goeritz, whose career mixed European avant-garde with the constants of American cultures.
The work of Richard Hamilton (1922–2011) – polyhedral, uninhibited, long-winded, indifferent to distinctions between genres – is hard to classify. This is a fact that, if possible, gives even greater importance to the major exhibition that up to 13 O
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
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.
The Reina Sofía Museum exhibition Metonymy comprises fifty sculptures that present the entire artistic career of Cristina Iglesias.
Una gran muestra sobre la obra de Hans Haacke, expuesta en las salas del Museo Reina Sofía de Madrid, critica desde la perspectiva del arte los excesos urbanísticos producidos por la burbuja inmobiliaria.
Bajo el título Espacio Imantado, el Museo Reina Sofía muestra hasta el próximo 3 de octubre una retrospectiva de la brasileña Lygia Pape (1927-2004). A partir de más de 250 obras —pinturas, relieves, xilografías, producción cinematográfica, carteles
La irrupción en el arte de las nuevas herramientas digitales ha vuelto a poner de actualidad la figura de Aby Warburg; sus métodos de trabajo han inspirado la exposición Atlas, en el MNCARS.
En el siglo pasado, el desembarco en América Latina de las propuestas de la modernidad arquitectónica europea produjo un ‘desencuentro fructífero’; Brasil y Chile dieron réplicas poéticas, como muestra esta exposición.
Ródchenko y Popova se conocieron probablemente en marzo de 1916 en Moscú, donde ambos participaron en la exposición ‘El Almacén’ con sus primeros trabajos pictóricos realizados con el lenguaje cubista que muy pronto había viajado a Rusia desde París.
Las pasiones se están desatando, una vez más, con ocasión de la última reorganización del MNCARS de Madrid. Una parte del mundillo artístico ha encendido sus mejores incensarios mientras otro sector, acodado en la barra de los bares, ha elevado sus g
Peter Fischli y David Weiss bromeaban en el suplemento cultural de ABC a propósito de su instalación específica para el Palacio de Cristal del Retiro en Madrid (plato fuerte de un proyecto que incluye una breve exposición autocomisariada y una proyec
El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presenta la exposición ‘AC, la revista del GATEPAC (1931-1937)’. La retrospectiva reúne, junto a las propias revistas —que constituyen unos de los documentos más fiables para medir el tono cultural de la v