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After Valencia's devastating floods, artists, museums and churches assess the damage

Following the deaths of more than 200 people in eastern Spain, the process of recovery and repair has revealed the enormous personal and institutional cost

‘Almost everything was washed away’: leading Spanish photographer’s studio wrecked by floods

Ricardo Cases says he lost 90% of his work and equipment after more than a year’s worth of rain fell on his town, near Valencia, in just eight hours

Heritage sites on new offshoot of Spain’s Camino could benefit from pilgrim boom

While travellers rarely stop to sightsee, providing overnight facilities will give historic venues an edge

Centre Pompidou Málaga to remain in place for another decade

Despite setbacks at satellite sites elsewhere, an extension to the gallery's collaboration with the Spanish city has been agreed

Spain’s plans for a national Civil War museum in disarray

Construction has begun, but wrangling between opposing political factions about how to represent one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history threatens to stall project

Spanish-Peruvian artist brings Old Masters to the New World at the Venice Biennale

Sandra Gamarra Heshiki references 17th-century European paintings in her investigations of Spain’s colonial past and its ongoing repercussions

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Uproar after series of high-profile sackings at Spanish museums

Regional governments accused of censorship and political interference after controversial axing of five museum directors in two months

‘Effeminate’ image of Jesus sparks culture war in Spain

Image of semi-naked Christ by Salustiano García prompts petition while LGBTQ groups defend the work

International scrap over treasure-laden Spanish galleon that sunk off the Colombian coast in 1708

Everyone wants to get their hands on the San José, a ship full of gold, silver and emeralds submerged in the Caribbean Sea—but at what archaeological cost?

Archaeologists discover 24,000 year-old Palaeolithic art site in eastern Spain

Researchers have now revealed details about the trove of ancient paintings and engravings found in 2021

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Spain seeks to improve artists' rights across EU but labour reforms at home fall short

MEPs back new support measures for creatives following Spain's Statute of the Artist decree, now in political limbo

How will the art market cope with stagflation?

Plus, Spain’s historical memory and a Dürer plate remade by Goldin + Senneby

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Debate rages in Spain over how to remember—or forget—Franco's dictatorship

Ahead of Spain’s election on 23 July, conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is on course to win, has vowed to challenge historical memory legislation

Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid

Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided

Well-attended Arco fair in Madrid boosted by foreign wealth and Picasso’s 50th anniversary

Spain’s largest commercial art event saw 211 galleries gather at the IFEMA conference centre

Is an influx of Latin American collectors turning Madrid into the art world’s next Miami?

As the Spanish capital attracts a moneyed contingent from Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, regional galleries are following suit

Virgin Mary and Christ diptych, stolen during Second World War, returned to Poland

The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle

Vast megalithic site discovered in southern Spain on land earmarked for an avocado plantation

More than 500 standing stones were catalogued by archaeologists working on the 7,000-year-old site

Art fairsanalysis

Arco Madrid opens to decent sales, few Latin American collectors and a Peruvian artist getting her vagina sewn shut

The first full edition of Spain's leading art fair since the start of the pandemic saw a near-return to form with strong institutional presence

New ‘Caravaggio’ work—once estimated at €1,500 and now worth millions—offered to Spain

Old Master painting was pulled from auction last year—but will the government pay full market price?

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Marina Abramovic receives Spain's most prestigious culture prize

The performance artist was awarded the Princess of Asturias award for the arts (laureate)

Colnaghi's show explores the broad threads that connect Spanish art and the New World

Exhibition of work from the Pre-Columbian age to mid-century Modern paintings, extended to 22 October

Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project

Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house

Researchers suggest that trippy hallucinations influenced prehistoric cave art

Reduced oxygen resulting from the use of torches in narrow enclosed spaces likely triggered hypoxia, resulting in out-of-body experiences, scholars report

'Good reasons to believe this is a new Caravaggio': specialists cautiously vouch for €1,500 painting pulled from Spanish auction

Government does not want to repeat ‘export mistake’ of 1970s when another work by the Old Master ended up in the US

Bronze Age burial site of powerful woman discovered under ancient palace in Spain

The cache of silver grave goods suggest she was an important leader in prehistoric El Argar society

From Goya to Goldin: new museum puts Spanish city of Cáceres on the art world map

Dealer Helga de Alvear has donated her entire collection of 3,000 works, which include pieces by Tacita Dean, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Wassily Kandinsky

Spanish government signs deal securing €1bn Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

New arrangement, to last 15 years, means key works by Gauguin, Monet and Picasso have been saved for the nation