A painting by Pablo Picasso has set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at auction after reaching €164 million in New York. Women of Algiers (Version O) had been expected to exceed €130m before the auction but the final price far exceeded those estimates in a sale at Christie’s auction […]
Some 11,800 passengers arrived into Málaga according to port authorities, 5,000 of which arrived aboard ‘Allure of the Seas’ – the largest cruise ship in the world. The 6,300 capacity vessel, sailing from Florida, was on its maiden voyage to Europe. It arrived promptly in the port at eight o’clock in the morning, coinciding with […]
More than 10.000 visitors flocked to the new Pompidou Centre museum in Malaga City last week after its official opening. The museum, the first branch of the prestigious Paris centre to be opened outside France, was officially launched by Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy and French Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin on Saturday, March 28, and […]
Over 2000 people took a change to see the collection and interior of the new Museum that had a free entrance after prime minister Rajoy opened the museum. The ‘Pop-Up’ version of France’s famous Pompidou Centre opened its doors in Málaga yesterday, marking the birth of a new concept the Paris museum hopes will spread around the world. Dubbed […]
Saturday the 28th of March 2015 was the inauguration of the new Pompidou Center of Malaga. Mariano Rajoy, President of the Spanish government, Fleur Pellerin, French minister of Culture and Communication welcomed the opening. France’s Pompidou Center on Saturday brought dozens of its 20th and 21st century artwork to one of Spain’s most popular coastlines, […]
Spanish prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the French Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin and mayor of Málaga Francisco de la Torre will the most prominent under the 4000 invited guests. However there is only room for not more than about 1000 persons. The rest of them is invited to visit CPM for free on the 2 […]
Free admission of the Centre Pompidou Málaga will be on Saturday 28th afternoon and all day Sunday 29th of March. However with the possibility of extending these open days, considering that “it does not interfere” in the celebration of Easter. “A free ticket is common when opening a museum installation of this nature is made,” […]
Last night between 8 and 10 PM the Paseo de Cures was closed for unloading the French trucks with the first series of art works from the depots of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Because of strict deadlines regarding the opening on March 27th work will continue around the clock to assemble the works in […]
Over the past few years, the city of Málaga has undergone major development in all sectors, particularly that of culture, thus strengthening the city’s national and international reputation. Lying in a magnificent natural setting, with a population of nearly 600,000, Málaga is the capital of the Iberian Peninsula’s leading tourist region, and one of the […]
Unicaja, the Andalucía savings bank is the largest sponsor committing 1.25 million euro’s over five years. Heineken will pay 1.175 million euro’s over 2015 to 2019. Hidralia is an Andalucían company which works in the environmental sector managing all processes related to the complete water cycle: catchment, drinking water treatment, transport, and distribution for human […]
What could be called the Pompidou effect has already taken hold in Malaga and especially in the suroundings of the new museum’s location. A study by the organisation which runs Malaga’s commercial port zone, Muelle Uno, has predicted that almost a million more visitors will visit the area in the period between the inauguration […]
Mayor Francisco de la Torre of Málaga, signed a preliminary agreement with a delegation of the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. The new museum branche will be housed in the Tabacalera, an old tobacco plant with 119 years of history devoted entirely to the art of Andalucia.The new museum will be opened March 25th. The […]
As far as elephants in the room go, it’s a pretty big one: the curious lack of any discernible type of rail travel servicing the length of the Costa del Sol. Málaga’s existing suburban link to Fuengirola aside (which boasts an exceptionally good reputation for punctuality, service, cleanliness and modernity), the Costa del Sol’s rail […]
It’s not a coincidence that this hurried project will be in time for a public and glorified official inauguration just before the municipal and regional elections’ so said during a meeting of the transparency commission, José María Luna, the Director of the Picasso Birthplace Museum, who will also direct the Pompidou and the Russian Art […]
The culture councillor, Gemma del Corral, has had to admit her promises made to the press on December 15 that four tenders for services at the Pompidou Centre were about to be granted. At the time she detailed the four services were the management of the visitors, maintenance, the coordination and managing of activities and […]
The opposition has criticised the confusion of price and ask is it all worth the bother, given the Museum will only be in Málaga for a maximum ten years. They think the City Hall is giving this bad data drip by drip. Initially two million a year was talked about, and after the singing in […]