"The day after its liberation by the Americans, I discovered a Kuwait littered by war debris and cadavers of Iraqi soldiers. Their withdrawal must have been a true ordeal." These are the words of Abbas, an Iranian photographer who "writes with ...

"What do I demand of a painting? That it surprise, disturb, seduce, convince," At 80, Lucian Freud is one of the greatest living realist painters. Known mainly for his unsettling portraits and nudes, he is the creator of a disturbing universe, ...

The Science Museum of "la Caixa" Foundation is embarking upon a new phase in its provisional quarters in the former "la Caixa" Foundation Cultural Centre at Passeig de Sant Joan, 108, in Barcelona, while awaiting completion of the building work on ...

The eight teams subsidised in the 2002 Call for Aid will study the genetic and molecular causes of Alzheimer's disease, the regeneration of brain tissue via transplants, the diagnosis and treatment of demyelinating diseases and the origin of a broad ...

Today the work of Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 - Meudon, 1917) exerts the same fascination that it did half a century ago. The clarity of his insight, the newness of the concepts he developed, and the diversity of his styles, materials and modes of ...

The plans for the new Science Museum of Fundació "la Caixa" respond to a philosophy that has characterised the museum since it began: stimulate scientific knowledge, the direct participation of visitors and convert the museum into a meeting place ...

The objective of the programme, within which new courses have started this May, is for students from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) to teach the elderly some of what they know about computing and to have the centres for the elderly ...

This year the Science Museum of Fundació "la Caixa" celebrates its 20th anniversary. Two decades in which it has consolidated as a European reference due to its significant contributions in the field of modern scientific museology as well as ...

The study The Spanish family and their children's education is the fifth volume of the Social studies Collection of the Fundació "la Caixa", a collection of work that aims to contribute to the debate, analysis and publishing of the burning issues ...