On Friday 3 October, the Iranian vocal and instrumental group Masters of Persian Music will launch this year's World Musics Festival, an event organised annually by "la Caixa" Foundation. On this occasion, the Festival will highlight Persian ...

To open a Montmartre-style cabaret in Barcelona. That was the aim with which Els Quatre Gats bar opened its doors on 12 June, 1887 on the ground floor of a neogothic building designed by Josep Puig i Cadalfach. Managed by Pere Romeu, former ...

The Greeks called their inhabitants Ethiops, the "burnt-faces". Herodotus described the population as the world's most slender, handsome and even-tempered, and their archers as strong and skilful. It is no coincidence that the region was known as ...

"Photography a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight." Henri Cartier-Bresson (Chenteloup, France, 1908) left an indelible, highly personal mark on the world of photography. Blessed with a subtle, intelligent ...

"I've selected the shots that stimulate, please or move me. Photographers with a commitment, poets, geometricians or simply talented observers. The list is long, and it would take several exhibitions to show them all," Henri Cartier-Bresson thus ...

Printing with woodcuts was invented in 9th century China, and became established practice in Europe at the outset of the 15th. Artists such as Dürer, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Matisse and Picasso turned engravings into true works of art. To ...

"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, ...