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FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ
Junta de Andalucía. However, recently news spread that the regional government was to give up its commitment to the centre, putting at risk the continuity of the museum and interpretation centre which is especially popular with school groups. In just
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Antonio Javier López
Shambala'. Location. Russian Art Museum. Duration. Until 1 March 2020. Opening hours. Tuesday to Sunday, from 9.30am to 8pm. Free entry. Under 18s and unemployed. Free for all on Sundays after 4pm. The new exhibition at the Russian Museum, however,
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Jennie Rhodes
On 18 October 1997 the iconic Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was officially opened by King Juan Carlos I. On the night before the official inauguration, 5,000 people were invited to a party at the museum which included fireworks and concerts. The idea ... for the museum first came about in 1990 when director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation, Thomas Krens, started negotiations with the Basque authorities to build a museum on the site of the former Bilbao dockyard on the city's Nervion river. ... Great secrecy shrouded the initial meetings until, in December 1991, an announcement was made that an agreement had been signed to establish the museum in the city. The internationally renowned architect Frank O Gehry's design, incorporating 5,000
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Antonio Javier López
(Gestión Cultural y Comunicación) and it is relaunchingwith an exhibition which was previously at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, from 7 June to 8 September. A return to Malaga 22 years after the exhibition organised by SUR 'Eleuthera' consists of 44 ... subjective, very emotional with a strong sense of the material". Painting for intimate subjects The curator of the exhibition, Elisabeth Dutz, of the Albertina Museum, also referred to Scully's long career at the official opening. "Sean Scully has worked
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Antonio Javier López
Malaga Picasso Museum (MPM), a dialogue between Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Alexander Calder, where it become full of movement, of suggestions, of life. The display, titled ‘Calder-Picasso’, conjugates the work of two artists who appear to be very ... profound, that the work of one can be confused for that of the other in this exhibition, which has come from the Picasso Museum in Paris and can be visited in Malaga until 2 February 2020. The exhibition 'Calder-Picasso' Content. Over 100 works by ... presentation. As a result, the MPM is presenting a fascinating project where “the light, the mobile, the transparent, the fluid and the luminous are all present,” said the artistic director of the Malaga museum, José Lebrero. The central theme is empty space,
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Antonio Javier López
The collection at the Russian Museum in the Tabacalera building is entering the final stretch of its most intense year to date, with two exhibitions featuring two fascinating characters: the poet Anna Ajmátova and the Symbolist painter Nikolái ... the Russian State Museum of Art in Saint Petersburg, will be the curator of the exhibition scheduled to run until 1 March 2020. "Anna Ajmátova's life and poetry knew a before and after of Stalinist terror. Attracted by her irresistible magnetism, ... great poets such as Mandelshtam or Gumiliov, with whom she married very young, artists such as Modigliani and scholars such as her second husband, Vladimir Shileiko, entered and left her life," explained the curator. More than an artist The museum
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Erasmus+ staff, students and families enjoyed an evening of music, dancing and fun. On the final day students in international groups made up and acted out a folktale as an end product of the week. Museum visit.SUR Emilio Guzmán, Huelin’s Erasmus
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BORJA GUTIÉRREZ
...a die-hard supporter of the club whose stadium is 3,000 kilometres from his home. "I came to Malaga five years ago with some friends and I decided to visit the club museum and La Rosaleda stadium. From that moment I fell in love with the club. From
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REGINA SOTORRÍO
Central government has authorised emergency works on the faulty air conditioning at the Museum of Malaga, which has placed 17,500 artworks and artefacts at risk of damage. Initial repair work began on 26 June, almost two months after concerns ... were raised about temperatures of up to 28 degrees in some areas of the museum. Experts say that the standard temperature to conserve works on an oil canvas is between 19 and 21 degrees. However, now the ministry for Culture and Sport "has analysed ... complete replacement of the entire air conditioning systemtakes places two-and-a-half years after the opening of the museum in December 2016, following a huge renovation of the former customs building, costing 40 million euros in state investment.
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Antonio Javier López
As part of its commitment to showcasing contemporary art the Picasso Museum in Malaga (MPM) is hosting a powerful exhibition called Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words until 1 September. This is its most ambitious project so far, and on this occasion ... Date. Until 1 September. Times. The museum opens every day, in June and September from 10am to 7pm, and in July and August from 10am to 8pm. Entry. Collection, 8 euros; temporary exhibition, 6.50 euros; combination, 12 euros. "It has been a ... challenge for this museum to put on this exhibition," said the artistic director of the MPM, José Lebrero. It consists of nearly 100 works produced in the past four decades by an artist who is essential to the understanding of contemporary art in the past 50