Gabriel 1879–1930, Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
Joan 1893–1983, Spanish painter.
Māori
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“They’re not him,” Mariel Colón Miró, a member of El Chapo’s defense team, told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Organized in roughly reverse-chronological order by curator Katherine Brinson with support from Charlotte Youkilis and Bellara Huang, the solo show opens with a surprise courtesy of an unlikely source: Joan Miró.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
He was also a surrealist painter and exhibited his work around the world alongside artists such as Joan Miró.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
All of the lenders for a forthcoming Joan Miró exhibition said they were happy with the changes, Vega said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Joan Miró defined himself by creating childlike, playful paintings, but when Nellie Mae Rowe embraced playfulness, her work was described as crude and primitive.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022
“A veces, lo miro y digo, ‘Wow,’” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
I looked him fixedly in the eyes, and said, in a low tone,— “Ne rakesa tu Romanes miro prala?”
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Mowno received the parcel with a reluctant and gloomy air, though it seemed to consist of nothing but a rough stone, wrapped in the leaves of the sacred miro.
From The Island Home by Dalziel
Latcherdom me a tāni kāli chavi of panj besh chorin levina avrī miro curro.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Gai me deum miro lowe lende, naste pennene jon gar wawer.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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