“Japonism", the influence of Japanese art, began in the 1860s when the ports of Japan were opened up, and became one of the most important and essential ingredients in European modern art in the second half of the 19th century. This fascination with ...

Is art necessary for living? "la Caixa" Foundation sets out to offer multiple responses to this question with the exhibition cycle entitled What to Think, What to Desire, What to Do. Fundació "la Caixa" Contemporary Art Collection. Comprising three ...

“Films have the power to capture dreams." Georges Méliès (1861-1938) introduced magic and fiction to film during the early days of cinema, when the new art form was devoted practically entirely to the documentary. The French film-maker made an ...

2500 years would pass before the first dolmens and menhirs were raised in Europe and Egypt was not yet a unified state governed by a pharaoh. But in what is now southern Iraq, a village became a great city of 40,000 inhabitants. It may well have ...

What is the relationship between historical painting, early photography and the work being done by the most innovative photographers today? To answer this question, Seduced by Art. Photography Past and Present, a new exhibition at CaixaForum ...

Is art necessary for living? "la Caixa" Foundation sets out to offer multiple responses to this question with the exhibition cycle entitled What to think, What to desire, What to do. Fundació "la Caixa" Contemporary Art Collection. Comprising three ...

What is chaos? Why does it occupy such an important place in the history of humanity? Masters of Chaos: Artists and Shamans seeks to provide an answer to both of these questions by exploring how the struggle between order and chaos has become an ...

2500 years would pass before the first dolmens and menhirs were raised in Europe and Egypt was not yet a unified state governed by a pharaoh. But in what is now southern Iraq, a village became a great city of 40,000 inhabitants. It may well have ...

We map our world in order to gain a glimpse of the reality in which we live. Since time immemorial, maps have been used to represent, translate and encode all kinds of physical, mental and emotional territories. Our representation of the world has ...