"Great brilliance". This is the meaning of the Chinese expression Da Ming, the name of the dynasty that ruled China for nearly three centuries. From 1368 to 1644, sixteen Ming emperors governed a population that rose from 65 million to nearly 175 ...

The new Strategic Plan 2016-2019 launched by "la Caixa" Banking Foundation clearly reflects the organisation's commitment to increasing the annual budget devoted to social programmes. This budget will reach a total of 2,060 million euros over the ...

"A small, intimate museum combined with an experiment station". That is how, in 1926, Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) defined what was to be the first gallery devoted to modern art in the United States, and which opened in Washington D.C. in 1921.

“To make use of things found by divine chance: pieces of iron, stones, etc., just as I make use of a schematic sign drawn on paper by chance. That magical spark is the only thing that matters in art." The creative process of Joan Miró (Barcelona, ...

"This exhibition of objects is nothing but a giant body, brought to life by the sum of the parts that make it up. It is also a body that one desires and whose urgency is unavoidable. And it is, ultimately, a body which by definition is presented and ...

"la Caixa" Foundation presents the participatory concert of Handel's Messiah at 8 pm on December 15 and 16 at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

Three and a half centuries after they were produced, the great decorations made for the Palace of Versailles have lost none of their fascination. Drawing Versailles explores how these decorations were applied from the sketches and drawings created ...

Roman women were at once the object of love and of fear, and of desire and scorn. Whether respectable matrons, harlots, priestesses or empresses, they were considered inferior under the law. However, despite this subordinate role, basically as wives ...

Do we perhaps depend too much on one type of language, on one same system for representation and communication that is predominantly narrative? That is the question that the curator and art critic Juan Canela takes as the starting-point for the ...