Had Generalissimo Franco followed the script that other modern dictators have written, he would have declared almost every living Spanish artist a degenerate and banned his works. But Spain’s artistic ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hosting the first-ever major exhibition paintings that reflect what many upper-class Spaniards thought about race, class and skin color during the 1700s, when ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...

Some time in 1606, Jusepe de Ribera, age 15, arrived in Rome from his native Valencia, Spain. Like many aspiring artists from across Europe, he came to refine his abilities—after some sort of ...

A remarkable new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art includes a lovely group of tender paintings by the great 18th century Mexican artist Miguel Cabrera. Each large canvas juxtaposes a ...

It was the biggest Goya show ever seen in the U. S. Chicagoans laid aside their war-headlined newspapers and went to look at pictures, in the ponderous, heavy-walled Chicago Art Institute. The ...

The art scene has had to take a back seat during the coronavirus pandemic, but a European gallery owner wants it to return to the spotlight. Ursula Salvador, a Spaniard art gallery owner, is hosting a ...

Well before he met Yoko Ono, John Lennon had a habit of going his own way. As early as 1964 — at the height of Beatlemania — he published “In His Own Write,” a collection of off-kilter poems and ...