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The founder of Miami's CIFO foundation takes a wide-ranging view of contemporary art, informed by her own experiences as a global citizen.

13:31, Jul 26 2021 Paul White/AP The Glass Palace stands shaded by trees in the Retiro park in Madrid, Spain. Madrid’s tree-lined Paseo del Prado boulevard and the adjoining Retiro park have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, holding an online meeting from Fuzhou, China, backed the candidacy on Sunday that highlighted the green area’s introduction of nature into Spain’s capital. The influence the properties have had on the designs of other ...

The ‘Rethinking Guernica’ website allows us to scrutinise Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece in greater detail than ever, writes Jennifer Mass

Queen Letizia's mother-in-law Queen Sofia is currently in Greece for a special reason.

Julião Sarmento. Photo: Paulo Pires. IT COULD BE SAID that Julião Sarmento’s major theme was desire. In his work, we are repeatedly faced with opposing points of view—subject and object, voyeurism and blindness, dream and reality—that repudiate the male gaze by undoing the rote equivalencies between possession and existence. The Lisbon-born artist’s evocations of bodies, often partially or completely erased, demonstrate nothing so much as the impossibility of reaching a final represe...

Tomaso De Luca (Verona, born in 1988, living and working in Berlin) is the winner of the second edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, the project that b

About This Lot Born in 1970 in Trinidad, Cuba, Alexandre Arrechea was an original member between 1991 and 2003 of the collective Los Carpinteros, along with Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, renowned for their reproductions of simple objects in structural and delicate style on paper. After departing from the group, Arrechea continued their key method of impeccable draftsmanship and sensitive attention to the boundaries of material form, while beginning to address political issue...

A Sunday stroll in the Retiro Park is one of Madrid’s great traditions Credit: GETTY Sundays may as a rule be a lot less frenetic than other days in Madrid but the city is still very much alive and kicking. A lot of the shops in the centre are open all day and most museums are open until at least 2pm. While some bars, cafés and restaurants do take a break, there is certainly no shortage ready to welcome you. If you are doing Madrid right, you won’t be up too early and it is usual to see th...

Image via BrightMLS. Okay, we need you to know that there’s an insane house for sale in Georgetown. The only caveat: It’s $11,500,000. Image via BrightMLS. Image via BrightMLS. We know, we know—that is a ridiculous amount of money. But hear us out: the five bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom home was originally built in 1955 and owned by Evalyn Walsh McLean (you know, the woman who owned the Hope diamond). And judging by the pictures, stepping inside would make you instantly forget you’r...

Greece or Spain: which holiday heaven should you visit this summer? As two of our sunshine favourites announce that they intend to welcome back British tourists this summer, which one will you choose? 14 March 2021 • 5:00am The beautiful Balearics, Spain Credit: Getty The first flight I ever took was to Mallorca, aged 13. We awoke to a golden morning on the north-east coast, with steps down to a cove of fine sand and limpid, turquoise shallows, bath-warm. They couldn’t get us out of the wat...