Madrid set to reign as one of world's art capitals
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Madrid has aspirations to become a world cultural capital with the ongoing enlargement and modernization of its three main art museums, which it hopes will draw seven million visitors annually.
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Spain marks the third anniversary of the Madrid  train bombings by unveiling a towering glass memorial.
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Arts & entertainment: Backstage bickering put aside as European capital of culture year kicks off
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Spain is being transformed by a new government, regional pressures and EU integration, writes Katya Adler.
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Museum curator Salvatore Casillo eagerly awaits the arrival of hundreds of modern art masterpieces.
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Olympic inspectors will visit Madrid  first in their whistle-stop tour next year of bid cities hoping  to stage the 2012 Games.
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WEMBLEY, England - For art, they could have gone to the British Museum. For something grand, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace were a train ride away.
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An exhibition of Federico GarcÃ­a Lorca-inspired installations in Grenada, Spain, includes works by thirty international artists.
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An exhibition of some of the world's greatest drawings from the past 500 years is opening in Edinburgh.
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China's most fashionable city Shanghai plans to host a traditional Spanish bullfight, the latest idea in the city's growing obsession with attracting international cultural and sporting events.
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The Royal Academy of Arts will hold a major exhibition of Turkish art at its London headquarters next year.
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Their watercolors have focused wide attention on a vulnerable population in the booming Russian capital.
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Images from the Spanish capital where farmers invade chic streets to defend ancient grazing routes.
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The enlargement of Madrid's Prado art museum will be finished by spring 2006, a year late of schedule, Spanish Culture Minister Carmen Calvo announced Wednesday.
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The Jacopo Tintoretto show at the Prado Museum in Madrid is a model of connoisseurship and smart editing.
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The Prado Museum is featuring the nation's leading artists in an exhibition entitled Spanish Portraits: From El Greco to Velazquez.
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The long-anticipated and controversial show opens on Saturday January 26 at the Royal Academy, bringing together an eclectic collection of European masterpieces and Russian works