Art Writer Robin Cembalest
Throughout her career, Robin has covered the people, places, and trends shaping the art world. Following is a non-chronological sampling from Robin’s hundreds of publications.
Tradition, a Curse: Inventing Punk in a Small Spanish Town
Reporting on post-Franco cultural shifts in the Andalusian town Priego de Córdoba.
Spain: ‘I Love Flamenco’
Spanish artists and institutions expand their horizons at home and abroad in the pre-1992 buildup.
Spain: Learning to Absorb the Shock of the New
Big changes in the Spanish art world are the result of government policies and social transformation in the post-Franco era.
Making the Global Local
Manuel Borja-Villel's rehang of the Reina Sofía highlights its holdings of Spanish modernist icons—along with the unknown, the unexpected, and the international.
First We Take Bilbao, Then We Take Berlin
Robin reported on the Guggenheim’s new branches in Bilbao and Berlin
Master of Matter
Antoni Tàpies, Spain’s most acclaimed contemporary artist, finds inspiration in the graffitied walls that allude to the passion and troubled spirit of his homeland
Guggenheim Won’t Get Guernica
Madrid museum nixes Basque request to loan Picasso’s anti-war masterwork to the new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Politics are involved.
The Torah in the Altarpiece
A new exhibition explores the overlapping worlds of Christian and Jewish art in medieval Spain.
‘The Last of a Kind’
Painter Antoni Tàpies, descendant of Picasso and Miró, did not leave an heir apparent.
Apocalypse Then
The graphic language of 900-year-old Catalan frescoes refers to love, damnation, and the all-seeing eye of God.
Zumaya and Pedraza: ‘The Real Spain’
Visiting the places in northern Spain where the well-known Basque artist Ignacio Zuloaga lived and worked.
Matadorable bullfighter Rafael Camino
Interviewing the popular torero at his finca in La Mancha
Spanish Cities Where Sherry Rules
The Spanish cities of Jerez, Puerto de Santa María and Sanlucar de Barrameda make most of the world's sherry, but there is plenty to do in these small cities besides drink wine, and plenty to see as well.
Spain’s African Enclave: Letter from Melilla
While some view Melilla, the Spanish city in the Maghreb, as an outdated relic of colonialism, others see it as a multicultural harbinger of Europe’s future.
Bright Lights, Big Ciudad
Unpacking the controversy over modernist streetlamps in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol
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