Museo Carmen Thyssen

Man Ray. Selected Photographs

For this exhibition devoted to the American Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890-1976) –better known as Man Ray– the Museum’s Sala Noble (Grand Hall) has turned into a sort of avant-garde cabinet of curiosities. Offering a survey of his most iconic photographs, from a French private collect...

Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)

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European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many artists, especially French and Spanish, to travel ...

Memory of the Streets

In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern city of the 1930s then in the midst of transformation and growt...