Museo Carmen Thyssen

Modern and seductive. Women in the ABC Collection (1900−1936)

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the illustrations in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro and the daily newspaper ABC – two of the periodic publications with the largest circulation at the time – conveyed the image of a new, active and modern woman. ...

American People. American Documentary Photography (1930–1980)

In this selection of more than fifty images from the José Luis Soler Vila Collection, several decades of documentary photos, from 1930 to 1980, form a mosaic of faces and people who were spotted and caught on film in streets and everyday spaces of the United States by eleven brilliant Amer...

Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity

This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predominant in commedia dell’arte characters, masks beg...