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JUAN SOTO
Scores of classic cars took to the streets of Malaga last Sunday for an event organised by the city's automobile museum. The gathering, the fourth Caravana Solidaria, brought together classic car enthusiasts and their motors in order to raise
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Jennie Rhodes
Aldeas Infantiles SOS (SOS-Children's Villages) day centre in El Palo. ·Jorge Rando Museum: https://www.museojorgerando.org/ The project came about through previous collaboration between the centre in El Palo and the museum, as well as through the ... contact that the museum had with Helen Sijsling, Chair of the Nerja Arts Society. Sijsling said of the society's involvement in the project, "We believe art enriches, empowers, soothes and stimulates." Three groups are making art to exhibit: young ... children, teenagers and a small group of parents, who use the services at the centre in El Palo. Sessions have taken place at the Jorge Rando museum and at the centre in El Palo throughout spring. Each workshop has been led by a professional art teacher, who
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Antonio Javier López
A fault with the air conditioning in the Museum of Malaga this week has seen both the Archaeology and the Fine Arts collections subjected to temperatures as high as 28.5 degrees Celsius. The climate control system has been encountering numberous
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Spain's Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento) has announced that it will invest 700,000 euros in a project to turn a Roman discovery in Rincón de la Victoria into a museum. Speaking last week, the town's mayor, Francisco Salado, said ... is one of five in Malaga province announced by the ministry in June 2018, will culminate in an indoor museum designed to showcase and preserve the settlement. The only other monument to receive money from the fund in the Axarquía is Vélez-Málaga's
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...will be screened at the Malaga Picasso Museum on 18 March at 9.45pm. The documentary is part of the festival's Documental Sesión Especial section.
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Debbie Bartlett
An 18th-century gold watch signed by Gibraltarian goldsmith Henry Cowper has been acquired at auction by the Gibraltar National Museum, beating numerous other bidders and finally buying the beautiful piece for £5,334. Henry Cowper is probably ... Museum hopes to put it on display in time for this year's Open Day on Saturday 18 May.
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The Museo Picasso Malaga has organised an intaglio engraving course for adults in which they can learn dry point and etching techniques. The participants will first be shown the museum's permanent collection and the Olga Picasso temporary ... March in Spanish; and on Thursday, 4 and Friday, 5 April in English. The price is 50 euros per person and includes the museum visits and all the materials. There are a limited number of places. Registration is now open online on the Museo Picasso
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Alberto GÓMEZ
The change in the party at the top of the Junta regional government has cast doubt over any future use for an unfinished museum in Torremolinos. A previous PP mayor commissioned the ornate structure but it has lain unfinished since 2015 when it
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regina sotorrío
...rebellion and women were being portrayed as strong, seductive and independent. Perversity, the new exhibition at the Carmen Thyssen Museum which is sponsored by the Unicaja Foundation, looks at this evolution in female identity: from 'femme fatale' to the ... museum, Lourdes Moreno, explained, these are a faithful reflection of society of the time. The way art portrayed women in the 19th century "showed a powerful and negative human sentiment: fear". The alarm caused in society by the incorporation of women ... ever to have been displayed at the Thyssen Museum, at 2.4 metres. For many, like Picasso and Penagos, the myth of Carmen, the Spanish 'femme fatale' was an inspiration, whle others preferred the native tradition of the 'maja'. Zuloaga paints her in
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Mónica Pérez
The building that housed the recently-closed Bonsai Museum, near Marbella's old town, is to be home to the town's new public library. The town hall has put out to tender the contracts to draw up plans and to carry out the works, with a total