Dancing and Empowerment with Sol LeWitt
The “Summer Nights” at CaixaForum have changed and are now taking place exclusively on line, offering a range of performing arts which reclaim the transformative capacity of art.
Surrealism and Objects: an obscure relation of desire
The exhibition “Objects of Desire. Surrealism and Design, 1924-2020”, at CaixaForum Barcelona, tells us how the design of objects has borrowed influences, ideas, delusions and obsessions from surrealism.
Coldplay’s ‘Viva la Vida’ brings more than 600 singers together on internet
The ”la Caixa” Foundation has launched for the first time a digital participatory activity to the sound of the ‘Viva la Vida’ theme, by Coldplay, and has reached a record number of participants, with more than 640 people.
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Prince, nothing compares to the original
Prince once said that with all the unpublished material in his mythical musical and visual ‘vault’ he could make an album a year for a century.
The Dalí painting that flew through the air
A car runs at high speed through the Alps. The travelers want to get home as soon as possible to enjoy one of the masterpieces Salvador Dalí’s youth phase. However, the painting will not reach its final destination in its best conditions.
Modest Urgell, finally over the horizon
As part of the events for the centenary year of his death, the Museum of Art of Girona presents Modest Urgell (Barcelona, 1839-1919), with all his complexity and contradictions.
Lotte Reiniger: artist of the shadows
CaixaForum restores the figure of the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger with a session of animated stories and live music by pianist Josep Maria Baldomà.
Life in modern cities
The exhibition “Camera and City. Urban Life in Photography and Film” at the CaixaForum Barcelona brings together 244 pieces by 80 photographers and filmmakers, made between 1910 and 2010. Together they form a kind of visual essay or reflection through still and moving images.
Museum of the Empordà: Disquieting de Juana
Pasear por la última exposición de Eudald de Juana en el Museu de l’Empordà (Figueres) es como transitar un sueño; da la sensación de que sus esculturas nos observan y que, de repente, sean capaces de desvanecerse.
Museum of La Garrotxa: exhibiting is participating
The Museum of La Garrotxa, in Olot, has organized an exposition in which the neighbors choose the pieces to exhibit.
Museum of Lleida: reclaiming the Baroque
The Museum of Lleida has undertaken a makeover of its Renaissance and Baroque halls. This has offered the chance to do justice to and get a better understanding of the Catalan Baroque which has so far been the subject of little public knowledge.
New life for Fabra & Coats
The Open Factory will bring together all the activities that Fabra & Coats – Art Factory and Contemporary Art Centre in Barcelona has organised for the Sant Andreu neighbourhood festival, which will enjoy their high point at the Open Door event on 30 November.
Reus Museum: If you can’t draw it, then you don’t understand it
Reus Museum is showing a selection of the best drawings in its collections, with works by Fortuny, Gaudí and Casas among them, but at the same time the exhibition invites us to reflect on drawing as a phenomenon in itself.
Papanek, Design, Politics and Militant DIY
The Barcelona Design Museum shows a large retrospective centred on the designer, theorist and activist Victor Papanek (1923-1998).
Morera Museum: future inventory
In two to three years’ time the Jaume Morera Art Museum in Lleida will open in its final location: the old palace of justice. Its director, Jesús Navarro, tell us what the new museum will be like.
Llorenç Balsach: when Sabadell was at the centre of culture
The Museu d’Art de Sabadell devotes a revealing exhibition to the figure of Llorenç Balsach Grau (1922-1993), industrialist, painter, patron and collector.
Mirador Gallery: Catalonia as a mirage
A exhibition at the Apel·les Fenosa Foundation in El Vendrell recuperates the memory of the Mirador gallery in Paris – a space for Catalan culture in exile in post-war Paris.
Abyss or Refuge?
The exhibition Freefall at the CaixaForum Barcelona explores the situation of uncertainty, concern and sometimes even panic which many people are suffering during these times of structural crisis.
Joaquim Capdevila: precious metals as artistic expression
Joaquim Capdevila has reinvented jewels as a means of artistic expression. The Design Museum of Barcelona is showing a retrospective.
The Magic Tricks of Bill Viola
The art of Bill Viola (Nova York, 1951) has got a hypnotic quality so intense that it fascinates and annoys in equal measure: the same is true for the mystical and spiritual substrata of his work.
The Opera Makes History
CaixaForum Barcelona tells us the story of modern Europe through eight operas. This is a high fidelity exhibition that has to be visited using the audio guide.
Solsona to give new life to the paintings of Sant Quirze de Pedret
In Solsona the paintings of Sant Quirze de Pedret are the star pieces of the museum situated inside the impressive Neoclassical building of the Episcopal Palace, next to the cathedral.