Tag: Prado

This initiative is sponsored by the Loewe Foundation and in collaboration with Granta Magazine WEBWIRE – Thursday, May 25, 2023 John Maxwell Coetzee, Nobel Prize for Literature (2003), has been selected as the first author to participate in the Writing the Prado program, a joint initiative with the Loewe Foundation that invites internationally renowned writers to engage literarily with the Museums collections. As inaugural Fellow, the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee will spend three weeks residing in Madrid (from late June to mid-July), making the Museum his center of activity and also of contemplation. He will write a story ... Read more

Return Journey. Art of the Americas in Spain, sponsored by Fundación AXA, recounts a little known phenomenon: the fact that following the conquest of Latin America and until its independence, more works of art arrived in Spain from that continent than from Flanders or Italy and that the movement of works was not one-directional, from Spain to Latin America, as is generally suggested. These thousands of objects, many of them created by indigenous or mestizo artists, often make use of materials, subjects and techniques unknown in Spain, while their creation reflects a range of intentions: reaffirmation of the dominance of ... Read more