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...

Latent Modernity

Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the signs of an emerging avant-garde before the Civil War (1936ꟷ...

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...