Culture

Madrid court orders exhumation of Catalan painter to get samples for lawsuit filed by Girona woman claiming to be his daughter

The book La Barcelona britànica i irlandesa (British and Irish Barcelona) offers a view on the Catalan capital that goes beyond tourism

more than 123,000 people visited the festival during the three days

Elena Martín’s debut work portrays the life of an Erasmus student in Berlin

The Japanese artist’s installation kicks off SónarPLANTA and offers “an unprecedented spatial experience”

The musician and visual artist’s show includes a music installation in the Catalan capital's airport

The Catalan photographer who contributed to the Nuremberg trials with more than 20,000 photographs

The Catalan photographer who contributed to the Nuremberg trials with more than 20,000 photographs

55% of the ticket-holders were from outside of Spain and 125 nationalities were registered

The first digital platform to distribute European cinema and television series in Catalan was launched on Friday in Barcelona

The Canadians will play again on Saturday night after their unexpected performance on a small stage on the first day of the festival

Bon Iver, Grace Jones, Arcade Fire, Van Morrison, and The XX are some of the most outstanding names in the line-up

The Catalan Government will guard geographer and journalist Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez’ legacy, which was seized in 1939 and has been stored at the Spanish Civil War Archives since then. The Catalan Minister for Territory and Sustainability, Josep Rull, thanked Reparaz’s family for trusting the Catalan Government and praised their years of “judicial struggle” to recover the documents, and therefore part of its family’s history. Rull emphasized Reparaz’s contribution “to explaining the Catalan cause to Europe” and his “commitment to freedom and democracy”. Reparaz established himself in Barcelona in 1921 and came into contact with many representatives of Catalonia’s political and cultural life.

One of the most important singer-writers in the Catalan language took the stage for the last time on Sunday at the iconic Palau de la Música in Barcelona. Raimon, leading voice of the Nova Cançó cultural and protest movement, said good bye with an emotional concert after more than 50 years on stage. With all the tickets sold out, Raimon said he wanted to finish his career with the same attitude as he started it, and sang ‘Al Vent’, an anti-Franco protest song that became a popular anthem against the fascist dictatorship in Spain. The concert on Sunday was the last of twelve evenings at the Palau de la Música in which the singer from Xàtiva performed old favorites but also more modern songs accompanied by a children’s choir.

The Dutch architecture studios NL architects and XVW architectuur, received the EU Mies Award 2017 (Contemporary Architecture prize of the European Union – Mies van der Rohe) on Friday in Barcelona for the rehabilitation of a big apartment building in Amsterdam. According to the jury, this year’s edition communicates two important messages: First, modern architecture has to fulfill citizens’ needs, and second, citizens participation in urban projects is essential for solving urban challenges. In an interview with the CNA, representatives from both of the prizewinning studios, Kamiel Klaassen (NL) and Xander Vermeulen Windsant (XVW), commented about the “incredible richness and variety” of Barcelona’s architecture and praised the potential of the city’s structure for future urban development.