Museo Carmen Thyssen

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced history.

In the arts, fascination for those majestic unex...

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...

Imogen Cunningham. Essences

The American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born in Portland, Oregon, into a humble farming family. Her father Isaac Cunningham, a freethinker and voracious reader, instilled a love of art and nature in Imogen, the eldest of six siblings.

In the ea...