Culture and Science

"Pre-Raphaelitism has but one principle, that of absolute, uncompromising truth in all that it does, obtained by working everything, down to the most minute detail, from nature and from nature only. Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is ...

From the existence of elementary particles to the age of Quixote, some 13,700 million years of evolution have taken place. This is the lengthy journey that can be undertaken by visitors to CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new, Fundació "la Caixa" Science ...

The legendary Bauhaus parties; the paintings that Turner dedicated to Venice; the splendour of the Thracian people; August Rodin and the influence he exerted over Brancusi, Matisse, Giacometti and many others; Bill Viola's "passions"; the twenty ...

"The universal can only be attained through the ultra-local": this phrase that Salvador Dalí applied to a number of Empordà citizens, such as Fages de Climent and Antoni Pitxot, could also be extrapolated to cover the eight Empordà photographers ...

A voice emerges from a sea of images. It has a soft, deep, hypnotic timbre. Over and over again it repeats, "You can't stop", until it fades away and leaves us alone bombarded by a constant flow of a sea of images. The voice is part of i am in you, ...

The Contemporary Art Collection of "la Caixa" Foundation is presenting a substantial selection of works in Santander, featuring thirty-one artists from Spain and abroad and highlighting the wide range of aesthetic options represented in the ...

Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. This fact would become a symbol for the European exploration of other lands that would change the collective mindset and imagination of the Old Continent. Running parallel to this, the technological ...

A guere mask identifies and chases those guilty of crime, and can even become their executioner; the ngang or Bembe fetishists inserted relics of the deceased (fingernails or hairs) into the anus of the statuettes to instill the spirit of the dead ...

In European history, the Way to Santiago has been one of the earliest unifying elements of the old continent. The discovery of the sepulchre of St James, the first martyred apostle, in the 9th Century proved to be a point of reference which helped ...