For the past 15 years, Málaga, the birthplace of Pablo Picasso, has pushed to promote its connection to the great painter, as part of its efforts to turn itself into an arts center. Now, the cultural ambitions of this southern Spanish city are taking on a new dimension, spearheaded by its longstanding mayor, who persuaded […]

SPANISH Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will be opening Malaga City’s new Centro Pompidou museum on March 28. The world famous gallery Centre Pompidou is coming to Malaga. Without doubt the Pompidou art center in Paris is one of the greatest homes of twentieth century art. In line with the arresting appearance of the Pompidou in Paris […]

THE good news for the tourism industry continues, with Malaga getting 10 per cent more visitors in January than in the same month of 2014, During January, the province received a total of 199,246 tourists, according to the data released by the Socio-economical Observatory of Malaga’s Development and Quality Foundation (Madeca). Spanish residents who visited […]

When the Spanish city of Malaga wanted to clean up its sleazy port side district, it called in the painters – big international names in the street art movement. In streets formerly roamed by sex workers and drug dealers, the faded 19th-century buildings now bear weird and wonderful murals by street artists from Britain, the United States […]