Royal Academy’s Spain and the Hispanic World – an expert in Spanish art reviews the exhibition
The Royal Academy’s first big show of 2023 is unusual. As well as presenting an impressive collection from Spain and the Hispanic world (around 150 items covering over 4,000 years, including paintings, sculptures, maps, books and manuscripts), it also tells…
How even the young Pablo Picasso was already foreshadowing cubism
At the end of the 19th century, long before starting to speak, Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was already drawing – and he grew up “capturing” everything he saw with a pencil. Through several of the drawings and sketches in pencil…
How women put hair to the fore in fight for equal rights
Cutting your hair or letting it grow, dyeing it or showing off they grey, sporting a mane or covering it. These are everyday acts with which millions of women claim their identities, try to fit in, fight for their rights…
