Alexandra F. Coego

After Valencia's devastating floods, artists, museums and churches assess the damage

Following the deaths of more than 200 people in eastern Spain, the process of recovery and repair has revealed the enormous personal and institutional cost

Heritage sites on new offshoot of Spain’s Camino could benefit from pilgrim boom

While travellers rarely stop to sightsee, providing overnight facilities will give historic venues an edge

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‘We were ahead of our time’: Guggenheim Bilbao’s outgoing director on the factors behind its success—and the challenges on the horizon

Juan Ignacio Vidarte is stepping down from his role after more than 32 years. As he prepares to move on, he tells The Art Newspaper about the “transformative power of culture” and the difficulty of replicating the “Bilbao effect”

Spain’s plans for a national Civil War museum in disarray

Construction has begun, but wrangling between opposing political factions about how to represent one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history threatens to stall project

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Uproar after series of high-profile sackings at Spanish museums

Regional governments accused of censorship and political interference after controversial axing of five museum directors in two months

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Spain seeks to improve artists' rights across EU but labour reforms at home fall short

MEPs back new support measures for creatives following Spain's Statute of the Artist decree, now in political limbo

Debate rages in Spain over how to remember—or forget—Franco's dictatorship

Ahead of Spain’s election on 23 July, conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is on course to win, has vowed to challenge historical memory legislation

Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid

Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided