Hotel ‘guests’ steal 45 bottles from Spanish wine collector

A September 2010 image of a rack of Chateau d’Yquem dessert wines, taken to show how the wine changes color as it ages. In late October 2021, a bottle of the 1806 vintage, valued at $407,000, was stolen from the cellar of a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Caceres, Spain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, credited to Megan Mallen and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
A September 2010 image of a rack of Chateau d’Yquem dessert wines, taken to show how the wine changes color as it ages. In late October 2021, a bottle of the 1806 vintage, valued at $407,000, was stolen from the cellar of a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Caceres, Spain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, credited to Megan Mallen and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
A September 2010 image of a rack of Chateau d’Yquem dessert wines, taken to show how the wine changes color as it ages. In late October 2021, a bottle of the 1806 vintage, valued at $407,000, was stolen from the cellar of a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Caceres, Spain. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, credited to Megan Mallen and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

VALBUENA, Spain (AP) – Two thieves stole 45 bottles of wine, including an extremely rare 215-year-old bottle valued at 350,000 euros ($407,000), from a collection at an upscale hotel and restaurant complex in southwestern Spain, the owner said on October 29.

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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza announces Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition

Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Serie I. Nº 3,’ 1918. Image copyright Milwaukee Art Museum, VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

MADRID — The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza has announced the first retrospective in Spain on Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). Through a curated selection of 90 works, visitors to the museum will experience the pictorial universe of a creative figure considered one of the leading representatives of 20th-century American art. The exhibition opens April 20 and runs through August 8. Continue reading