The Prado, Renowned for Its Art, Tries a New Role: Muse to Authors
Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from ...
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Picasso’s Guernica Again
After the election last week, I saw a poignant political cartoon in The Philadelphia Inquirer by Daryl Cagle depicting a ...
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Novelist John Banville tours Spain’s Prado
That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours — even though he’s been invited to browse anytime as part of a month-long literary ...
Top Art Collector Displays Rare Treasures In Madrid
After visiting Europe 60 years ago as a penniless art aficionado, Juan Antonio Perez Simon overcame hardship to amass a ...
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Spanish Studies
Every year, thousands of students from across the world make their way to Spain to attend language schools and the 76 ...
Elite Wine & Culture in Madrid With Bodegas Valduero
Private tours and tastings at one of Spain’s top winemakers Accommodations at a 17th-century palace and five-star hotel Four ...
Novelist John Banville on how ‘eerie’ art at Madrid’s Prado museum inspires him
The Booker Prize winner talks about Old Masters' pictures that 'look at you' and AI in art as he takes writing inspiration from the Prado It is the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their ...
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‘The pictures, they look at you.’ John Banville’s journey through the Prado
For Irish novelist John Banville, the captivating eyes in the paintings at Spain's Prado Museum offer an intense connection ...
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‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain’s Prado Museum
MADRID (AP) — Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain’s Prado Museum for the past month as its latest writer-in-residence. But he prefers to visit during opening ...
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‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum
MADRID (AP) — It’s the eyes peering ... That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum during its opening hours — even though he's been invited ...