“It can’t be like catching the Metro at rush hour.” ...

MADRID (AP) — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s ...

We tour the backstage of the Madrid art gallery with an exceptional guide to discover a combination of experience and youth, craftsmanship and technology that is pure art: "It is a very anonymous job, ...

Recent designs include a collaboration with an award-winning architect and an elaborate pocket watch. By Penelope Colston Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel ...

The applications for artificial intelligence are seemingly endless. So naturally, Madrid’s Museo del Prado is using A.I. to count how many people and objects are in its paintings in a new project ...

Spain' Prado Museum caps group sizes and limits hours to ease overcrowding, prioritizing visitor experience after record-breaking attendance.

MADRID — The Prado was not designed to be one of the world’s great art galleries. But as it celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, Spain’s national museum can boast of welcoming almost 3 million ...

A visitor touches a textured version of Velázquez’s “The Triumph of Bacchus” (1628–29) at the Prado (All images courtesy of Museo del Prado) Many of us have felt the flash of embarrassment that comes ...

MADRID, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Madrid's Prado museum abruptly withdrew a 19th century painting from an exhibition of Spanish female artists on Wednesday night after an online art sleuth showed the work in ...

For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. By Scott Reyburn Recent ...