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  • "The Escape Ladder," 1940 (Museum of Modern Art)

    'Ladder of Escape' celebrates the range of Joan Miro

    Of the three great Spanish artists of the 20th century — Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro — the first is a recurring subject of National Gallery of Art exhibitions, with seven shows in the past three decades. But while Dali awaits his turn, beginning Sunday Miro gets some overdue attention from the National Gallery in "Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape," a major new exhibition of well over a hundred works spanning his long, productive life.

  • Miro's "La Ferme" ("The Farm"), crowded with nostalgic images of the area, shows the house from the side. Ernest Hemingway bought it, and his widow donated it to the U.S. National Gallery of Art. (Photo provided by The National Gallery of Art)

    Spanish artist Miro's farm needs tender, loving care

    Catalonian artist Joan Miro had a farm. And on this farm he had an easel on which he created large, wonderful paintings of it that are among his most famous works. Now, with Spain in economic crisis, Miro's farm is a neglected relic with an uncertain future.

  • Roving art show brings Picasso to Cuban masses

    A traveling exhibition of art donated by a U.S. philanthropist is giving Cubans outside the capital a rare chance to see works from masters such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that would normally hang in world-class galleries instead of sleepy provincial cities.

  • American wins Spanish social sciences award

    Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner has won Spain's Prince of Asturias award for social sciences in recognition of his studies of how human intellect expresses itself in different kinds of skills.

  • This architectural rendering by Diller Scofidio and Renfro, released, on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, by the Broad Art Foundation shows the $130 million, museum billionaire Eli Broad plans to build on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Broad's planned contemporary art museum, which will showcase his 2,000-piece collection that includes works by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro, is a three-story, $130 million honeycomb structure that will be known simply as Broad. (AP Photo/Diller Scofidio + Renfro via Broad Art Foundation)

    Billionaire unveils design of downtown LA museum

    Billionaire Eli Broad's planned downtown contemporary art museum, which will showcase his 2,000-piece collection that includes works by Salvador Dali and Joan Miro, is a three-story, $130 million honeycomb structure that will be known simply as Broad.

  • Yevtushenko gives house, art to Russia

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia's most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum.

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