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  • ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the British Museum sign an agreement for the joint organisation of exhibitions
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    ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the British Museum sign an agreement for the joint organisation of exhibitions

    Elisa Durán, Deputy General Director of "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, and Sir Richard Lambert, Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, have signed an agreement to cooperate in the organisation of four extraordinary exhibitions to be shown ...

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  • Alvar Aalto 1898-1976. Organic Architecture, Art and Design.CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Alvar Aalto 1898-1976. Organic Architecture, Art and Design.CaixaForum Barcelona

    Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), who was called the "Magus of the North" by the architectural critic Sigfried Giedion, is the best known Finnish architects of his generation and one of the chief proponents of a human-centred modernism. His buildings such as ...

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  • Three Narratives. Participation. Memory. ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Three Narratives. Participation. Memory. ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art. CaixaForum Barcelona

    Can we explain and classify contemporary art through a single chronological narrative, as has been done with all previous art? Would it not it be more appropriate to propose a simultaneity of discourses that allow us to approach creativity today ...

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  • Moche Art from Ancient Peru. Gold, Myths and Rituals. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Moche Art from Ancient Peru. Gold, Myths and Rituals. CaixaForum Barcelona

    Between the years 200 and 850 AD, a series of chiefdoms and kingdoms of great cultural complexity emerged in the valleys and deserts of what is now the northern coastline of Peru.

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  • Pixar: 25 Years of Animation. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Pixar: 25 Years of Animation. CaixaForum Barcelona

    "The art challenges the technology. Technology inspires the art." That is how John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios, sums up the spirit of the US company that marked a turning-point in the film world with its innovations ...

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  • The most important thing. Portraits of an escape. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    The most important thing. Portraits of an escape. CaixaForum Barcelona

    What is the one thing that is most important for you and that you would take if you suddenly had to flee from your home and your country? Although it may seem an unthinkable dilemma, that is the question that thousands of people are forced to answer ...

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  • The Captive Beauty. Small Treasures at the Prado Museum. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    The Captive Beauty. Small Treasures at the Prado Museum. CaixaForum Barcelona

    The Prado Museum and "la Caixa" Foundation present The Captive Beauty. Small Treasures at the Prado Museum, the second major exhibition based on the collections of the Madrid museum to be hosted at CaixaForum Barcelona following the successful ...

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  • Sorolla. The Colour of the Sea. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Sorolla. The Colour of the Sea. CaixaForum Barcelona

    The sea is the theme in the painting of Joaquim Sorolla. Born in Valencia in 1863, Sorolla's life was closely linked to the landscapes of the Valencian coastline, the Balearic Islands and the north of Spain, which he captured with extraordinary ...

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  • Mediterranean. From Myth to Reason. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Mediterranean. From Myth to Reason. CaixaForum Barcelona

    From the Middle East to Egypt and then to Greece and, later, to Rome, the Mediterranean provided the route for the communication of beliefs, ideas, knowledge and cultural forms whose influence extends even to our day. Mediterranean. From Myth to ...

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