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Madrid’s refusal to loan Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ to Bilbao fuels political tensions

News Desk7th April 202613th April 2026

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A growing political and cultural dispute has erupted in Spain over whether Pablo Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting Guernica should be temporarily moved from Madrid to...

US court revives case surrounding a Nazi-looted painting in Madrid museum

News Desk12th March 202517th March 2025

12th March 202517th March 20256369

The future ownership of a French impressionist painting, once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman, is once again uncertain after the US Supreme...

The ‘lost Caravaggio’ goes on display at the Prado museum in Madrid

News Desk27th May 20244th June 2024

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A painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and almost auctioned off, has gone on display at...

Spanish police recover 4th of five Francis Bacon paintings stolen in Madrid in 2015

News Desk23rd May 20244th June 2024

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Spain’s National Police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A...

Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio, to be unveiled 27 May

News Desk6th May 202427th May 2024

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A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a long lost Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work...

Catalan police dismantle syndicate that allegedly sold fake Banksy art

News Desk8th March 202413th March 2024

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Police in Catalonia, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said on Thursday that they had dismantled a ring which allegedly falsified works by British street artist Banksy, and...

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Art Galleries of Catalunya’s ‘GAC Awards’

News Desk26th July 202326th July 2023

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The GAC Awards are organised by the association Galeries d’Art de Catalunya and were held recently at the Macba, as part of the Gallery Night,...

New museum in Madrid, the Royal Collections Gallery, opens end of June

News Desk9th June 202327th June 2023

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A new museum packed with hundreds of treasures collected by Spain’s monarchs over the past 500 years is set to open in Madrid this month....

Catalan police return stolen Dalí drawings to their owners

News Desk19th February 202322nd February 2023

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The Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, have recovered two 100-year-old charcoal drawings by surrealist master Salvador Dalí valued at €300,000, and returned them to their owners, they announced...

Ukrainian art on display at Madrid museum after defying Russian bombs

News Desk29th November 20226th December 2022

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Many modern artworks removed from Kyiv to protect them from Russian bombs – that have already done huge damage to Ukraine’s cultural heritage – have gone...

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