"I'll donate all of this – the music mementoes, paintings and papers at Sant Salvador – to my country," the exiled Pau Casals once declared. The place he was referring to was Villa Casals, the house the musician had built on the Sant Salvador ...

"La Caixa" Foundation launches the second edition of its Programme for the Labour Insertion of the Disabled, which provides grants for projects that strive for the labour insertion of individuals with psychological, physical, sensory or mental ...

Eight hundred years ago, on 22 July, 1203, a solemn ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone of what Josep Gudiol i Cunill described as the "richest and most lavish works in Catalonia": the Seu Vella – Old Cathedral – of Lleida. Over this time span, ...

Surgical steel, the rubber of a baby's pacifier, bar codes, multicoloured papers, plastic, stitches of crochet, coal... Many 21st century artists have found an open field for experimentation in jewellery. This goes beyond mere materials to include ...

"la Caixa" Foundation has selected six research projects in its First Grants Competition for Oncology Research. These studies, presented by scientific teams from Madrid (2), Barcelona (2), Lleida and Oviedo, focus largely on understanding cancer at ...

A new edition of "la Caixa" Foundation's Festival of Early Music is with us again, bringing a timetable of concerts and activities which will fill Barcelona with major figures in the sphere of performance based on historical research and played on ...

Playing tic-tac-toe with a robot, taking drum lessons on-line, exploring an Egyptian tomb with a virtual reality helmet or learning how to make a comic strip are just a few of the many proposals of Transvisual Girona, an interactive play exhibition ...

"Our busy century doesn't always have time to read, but it does have time to see," said Theóphile Gautier in 1858. Two decades beforehand, the first photographic procedure (the daguerreotype) had swept through Europe, and with it the figure of the ...

Poster enthusiast that he was, throughout his career Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) received commissions from most all Parisian cabarets. He designed his first poster in 1891 for the Moulin Rouge. From then on, accompanied by an ever-present Japanese ...