Valencia museum displays over 100 fake paintings, including a ‘€50m Velázquez’
A museum in Valencia is currently holding an exhibition of over 100 counterfeit works of art that have been confiscated by the police working for the...
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Catalan police return stolen Dalí drawings to their owners
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
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...
Climate activists splash fake ‘blood and oil’ on exhibits at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona
Climate activists splashed a viscous liquid representing ‘blood and oil’ over the glass case housing a replica mummy at Barcelona’s Egyptian Museum on Sunday in...
Museums ‘deeply shaken’ by activists ‘severely underestimating’ fragility of art
Officials at Madrid’s Prado Museum have drawn up a declaration signed by dozens of the world’s top museums which denounces that environmental activists who attack...
Climate activists glue their hands to the frames of Goya masterpieces at Prado museum
Two environmental activists stuck themselves to the frames of Spanish master Francisco Goya’s famous ‘Las Majas’ paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid on Saturday. They...
Madrid’s Prado Museum to investigate if art was confiscated during Franco regime
Madrid’s El Prado Museum is investigating the provenance of 62 works of art in its collection to determine whether some of them derive from confiscations...
Picasso sketch worth €450,000 seized by customs officials at Ibiza airport
Spanish customs officials seized a Pablo Picasso sketch worth over €450,000 from a passenger who arrived at Ibiza airport without declaring the artwork, the country’s...
Queen Letizia and Prince Charles inaugurate ‘Spanish Gallery’ in UK
Queen Letizia of Spain accompanied Prince Charles for the inauguration of the first UK museum dedicated exclusively to Spanish art on Tuesday, which is also part of...
Spanish police retrieve final part of tapestry stolen by ‘Erik the Belgian’ in 1980
Agents of Spain’s National Police specialising in historical heritage have recovered the last part of a 17th-century Flemish tapestry that was stolen 42 years ago...
